The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-06-16
Posr OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

POST OFFiCE DEPARTMENT,
May 30, 1916.
TN compliance with the seventeenth section OF the
i act Of Congress, "legalIzing and making appro-
priatous 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, lS42, SEALED PROPOSALS will
be received at this department until 3 O'Clock, p NJ
of Monday 29th June next, for supplying such Of
the following stationery as the department may or
DER in quantities stated, more or less during the
year commencing LIST July, 1876, and ending Both
June, l847, viz:
20 reams Southworth's Congress extra superhne
quarto post paper, blue or white, fent
lined weight pounds per ream
so reams Jesup's first class quarto post, woTe or
laid blue or white, fent lined; weight 81
pounds per ream
IL reams Patner, Smith, & Co, extra sup. blue
wove quarto post paper, fent lined;
weight 81 pounds per ream
is do do do unrued do do per ream
10 do Oven & Hurlbert's superior blue laid
fsolscap, fsint lined, per ream
do Southworths extra superior white wove
foolscap 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, 10
by % inches, per ream
10 do do white do do per ream
2 do gilt note paper, 8 by inches, per ream
140 do best machine or handmade cap, weight
- pounds per ream
so reams small royal writing paper for blanks
% by III inches; weight % pounds, per
feari
ITO do royal do do 25 by 10 inches, weight
"a pounds per ream
$50 do best machine or handmade quarto post,
weight pounds, per ream
5 do best yellow or buff enveloping paper, 20
by 26 inches, per ream
so do best yellow or buff enveloplng paper, 81
by 81 inches, per ream
do white enveloping paper, 20 by 25 inches,
fiat, per ream
400 do double cap paper for blank post bills, per
do extra superfne cap, handmade, for post
masters bonds, per ream
100 do royal printing paper, per ream
qures best drawing paper, 81 by 40 inches, per
quire
do best tracing paper, 81 by 40 inches, per
quire
100 dozen cards steel pens, the department to have
the liberty of selecting from all the diff
rerent kinds manufactured, English or
American, in the market,) per dozen
cards
| gross Damascus pens, in boxes, with one dozen
holders, per gross
4 do other steel pens in boxes, with one dozen
holders to each gross, per gross
1000 Opaque quilts, No. 80, per 1000
SO dozen Monroes black lead pencils, graduated
per dozen
do Cohen's red lead do do c
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 & Noyess black
do do do Hover's do per dozen
do gill bottles do Arnold s. red ink, per
dozen
so pounds red waters, 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, q inches square,
pilared or plain, per dozen
dozen letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
do eraser's Rodgers's, ivory handles in
cases, per dozen
do best paper shears or scissors, six inch
es, der dozen
900 hounds cotton twlne, assorted
In order to secure uniformity, blank forms for
proposals will be furnished, on application to the
fiji 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 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 las the law de
mands) be required of the person or persons con
tracting and in case of failure fully to comply with
the terms of the contract, the contractor and his
surees will be liable for the forfeiture specified II
such bond, as qudated damages, to be sued for II
the name Of the United States, in any court having
jurisdiction thereof
The head ofthe department will, in all cases, de
eide whether the terms Of the contract have beer
complied with, and reserves the power to annul the
contract upon any failure to comply in a reasona
bic time.
G. JOHNSON,
June I-law4w Postmaster General.
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