The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-30
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
Posr OrYIcE DEPARTMENT.

u act Of Congress, "legalizing ana making appro
priaions for such necessary objects az have beer
usually included in the general appropriation bills
without authority of law, and to fix and provide fo
certain incidental expenses of the departments and
Offices of the government and for other purposes,
approved August &c, 1912, SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this department until o'clock p M,
Saturday, the 2lst June next, for supplying such Of
the following stationery as the department may ordeI
during the year commencing LIST July, l645, and
ending 30th June, 1916, viz: n8 sed
20 reams Southworths Congress extra super6ne
quarto post paper, blue or white, fein
~ lined, weight 8 pounds per ream
SO reams Jesup's frat class quarto post, woye Of
laid, blue or white, faint lined; weight 81
!, ponnds per ream
IL reanas Platner, Smith, 4 Co. extra sup. blue
wove quarto post paper, feint lined; weigh,
81 pounds per ream A
Is do do do white do do per rean
~ do do do unruled do do per rean
~ do Owen and Hurlbert's superior blue laid
foolscap, fent lined, per ream ed
do Southworth's extra superior white wove
foolscap, feint lined, per ream
2 do do do white folio post, to weigh moi
less than 10 pounds, per reanl
2 do do do fcint lined do per ream
10 reams bank folio post blue, untrimmed, 49,
by 70 inches, per ream
10 do do white do do per ream
do gilt note paper, 8 by 5inches, per ream
100 do best machine or handmade cap, weight
IL pounds per ream st b W.
so reams small royal writing paper for blanks,
20 by l7A inches; weight % pounds, per
10 do royal do do Is by 10 inches, weight
"a pounds, per ream
Ito do best machine or handmade quarto post
weight S pounds, per ream
do best yellow or buff enveloping paper,
20 by rs inches, per ream S1
SO do best yellow or buff enveloping paper, 81
hv 81 inches par d y f.
l do white enveloping paper, 20 by Is inches,
fiat, per ream B
$50 do double cap paper for blank post bills,
per ream stg faA 3i t
6 do extra superfne cap, hand made, for post.
masters bonus, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
4quires best drawing paper, 81 by 40 inches,
per qure 4
do best tracing paper, 81 by 40 inches, per
quire ~
SO dozen cards steel pens, (the department to have
the liberty of seiectng from all the diff
ferent kinds manufactured, English or
American, in the market,) per dozen
cards E.e
gross Damascus pens, in boxes, with one
dozen holders, per gross
do other steel pens in boxes, with one
dozen holders TO each gross, per gross
2dozen Aden's patent elastic penholders, per
1000 opaque quilts, No. SO, per 1000
36 dozen Monroe's black lead pencils, graduated,
per dozen
do Cohen's red lead do do per
dozen
3 do 9-inch ivory folders, per dozen
100 do red tape, No. l6, per dozen
] do pieces silk taste, per dozen
do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
! do do wafer stands, per dozen
do quart bottles Maynard g. Noyes's black
ink, per dozen a@
A. - l.
do gill bottles do Arnold's red ink, per
Is pounds red waters, hest, per pound
2 do pea do do per pound
DO best scarlet sealing wax, per pound
2 do prepared India rubber, per pound d
dozs cut glass ink stands, 81 inches square,
pillared or plain, per dozen
2 dozen letter stamps, ivory handles per dozen
dozen penknives, Rodgers's best, blades
do erasers, Rodgers's, ivory handles, in
cases, per dozen
/ do best paper shears or scissors, six inches,
per dozen
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished, OH application to the
department.
lift be required, each bidder must furnish, with
his proposals, sample, and but one sample, Of
each article bid for.
Each article must be bid for, and no more than
one price named for any one article.
Bids not fully conforming TO the advertisement
will not be considered
Each bid must be accompanied by ample tesmo-
ny Of the ability Of the bidder TO comply with his
proposal.
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amount
of the articles be furnished, will Gas the law de-
mands) be required Of the person or persons con-
tracing; and in case of failure fully to comply
with the terms of the contract the contractor and
his sretics will be liable for the forfeiture specified
in such bond, liquidate! damages to be sued fol-
in the name Of the United States, in any court hay
ing jurisdiction thereof.
The head of the department will, in all cases, de.
eide whether the terms Of the contract have been
complied with, and reserves the power to annul the
contract upon any failure TO comply in reasonable
time.
C. JOHNSON,
May 23-law4w Postmaster General.