The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-04
C. JOHNSON,
PROPOSALS FOR STATIONERY.
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
May 30-law4w

May 80, 1886
N compliance with the seventeenth section Of the
Il act of Congress, "egazing and making appro-
prat'ons for such necessary objects as have been
usually included In the general appropriation bills
without authority OF law and TO FIX and provide for
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 y. m
Of Monday 29th June next for supplying such Of
the following stationery as the department may or
der, IN quantities as stated more or less, during the
year commencing LIST July, 1916, and ending 3Oth
June, l647 viz:
20 reams Southworth's Congress extra superfne
quarto post paper, blue or white, feint
lined weight 8 pounds per ream
90 reams Jesup's first class quarto post, woye or
laid, blue or white, feint lined; weight 8
pounds per ream
IL reams Palmer, Smith, d Co, extra sup. blue
wOye quarto post paper, fent lined;
weight 81 pounds per ream
Is do do do white do do per ream
10 do do do unrued do do Der ream
10 do Owen & HurIber's superior blue laid
fsolseaP, feint lined, per ream
do Southworth's extra superior white wove
foolseap, feint lined, per ream
2 do do do do white folio post, to weigh
not less than Is pounds, per ream
2 do do do feint lined do per ream
10 reams bank folio post, blue, untrimmed, 49,
by ~ inches, per ream
10 do do white do do Der ream
2 do gilt note paper, 8 by inches, per ream
lao do best machine or handmade cap, weight
u pounds per ream
50 reams small royal wiring paper for blanks,
- by III inehesi weight - pounds per
Team
10 do royal do do IS by 10 inches, weight
"a pounds, per ream
$50 do best machine or hand.mad auarto post
weight 8 pounds, per ream
do best yellow or buff envelopng paper 20
by 20 inches, per ream
SO do best yellow or buff enveoPing paper, 2l
by p inches, per ream
do white enveoPing paper, 90 by % inches,
fiat, per ream
400 do double cap paper for blank post bills, per
do extra suPerhne cap, hand made, for post
masters bonds, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
4quires best drawing paper, % by 40 inches, per
quire
do best tracing paper, 81 by 10 inches, per
100 dozen cards steel pens (he department to have
the liberty OF selecting from all the diff
terent kinds manufactured, English or
American, In the market,) per dozen
cards
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
1000 Opaque quilts, No. so, per 1000
So dozen Monroe's black lead pencils, graduated,
per dozen
do Cohen's red lead do do q,
dozen
, do 9.inch ivory folders, per dozen
100 do red tape, No. Is, per dozen
do pieces silk taste, per dozen
do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
do do wafer stands, per dozen
do quart bottles Maynard & Noyess black
ink, per dozen
do do do Hover's do per dozen
do gill bottles do Arnold's red ink, per
dozen
so pounds red wafers best, per pound
3 do pea do do per pound
do best scarlet sealing wax, per pound
do prepared India rubber, per pound
dozen cut glass ink stands, % inches square
piared ORPHAN, per dozen
l dozen letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
l do eraser's Rodgers's, ivory handles, in
eases, per dozen
| do best paper shears or scissors six inch.
es, der dozen
900 pounds cotton twIne, assorted
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished, on application to the
department.
Iii be required each bidder must furnish, with
his proposals, sample, and but one sample, of
each article bid for.
Each arucie must be DID 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 testimo.
ny Of the ability of the bidder to comply with his
proposal.
Bond, with security in twice the estimated amount
Of the articles to be furnished, will Gas the law de-
lnands) 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
sureties will be liable for the forfeiture specified in
such bond, as i9udated damages, to be sued for in
The name of the United States, in any court having
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 reasona-
bic time.
c. JOHNSON,
June l-law4w Postmaster General.