The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-12-01

$50 yards fancy list cloth, scarlet
$50 yards fancy list cloth, green
| 1000 yards gray list cloth, blue
5000 yards saved list cloth, blue
| l,6OO yards saved list cloth, scarlet
800 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchies
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchief
IT'S dozen black silk handkerchief
80 dozen Sd cotton shawls
so dozen "a cotton shawls
90 dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen Sd woollen shaws
%, 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10000 yards Merrmack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
800 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shirting, bleached
$1,000 yards domestic shirting, unblcached
$4,000 yards domestic sheeting, unbeached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and paids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linscy
$500 yards flannes, assorted
800 flannel shirts
700 calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton, Nos. / to 30
so pounds sewing silk
100 pieces riband, assorted
1890 yards bed ticking
1000 yards Kentucky jeans
| 500 yards sattinets
$50 gross worsed gathering
200 pounds Chinese vermillion
30 dozen silk handkerchief, bark and Bandana
100 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
l,7S0 pounds brass kettles
,090 tin kettles
10 nests of japanned kettles, s in nest
276 dozen butcher knives
5000 gun fints
20 gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
Is dozen fish lines
5000 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
II dozen axes, TO weigh from a. TO 5, pounds
so dozen half axes, TO weigh 81 pounds
"A dozen hatchets, TO weigh pounds
agricultural Implements, &c.
100 axes, to weigh from a to 5. pounds
400 half axes, to weigh 8 pounds
200 hatchets, to weigh II pounds
% broad axes
200 drawing knives, II inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of !, /, 2, and
inch
100 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
500 wedding hoes
It's hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 cross cut saws, feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross-cut files
40 log chains, to weigh 25 pounds each
GOO Whittemore cards, No. 10
100 quarter socket chisels
80 planes, fore and jack
Northwest Guns.
$50 Northwest guns, two thirds Of which must
measure SO inches in length of barrel and
one-third ~ inches, TO be delivered in the
city Of New York or Philadelphia, as may
be required.
Samples of all the above articles arc deposited in
the office of the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs;
and il may be proper 10 remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
are entirely new and of better quality than the ar
tices heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into four parts viz:
lst. Blankets.
I'd. Dry goods.
3D.. Hardware, 10 include agricultural implc
ments, &c.
4th Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re.
ceye the whole or any part of the contract accord
ing 70 the above scale, the Department reservnR TO
itself the right 10 determine whether the bidder is
competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount in money to be applied to the
purchase of goods will be about 100000, but the
Department reserves the right TO increase di-
mnsh the quantity of any Of the articles named
substitute others in lieu thereof or 10 require at
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
presents other purposes, in the administration Of
the affairs OF the Department Goods Of American
preferred but all the samples Of blankets and
cloths Of foreign manufacture it will be neces-
sary, when a domestic article is bid for, that a
sample of it should accompany the bid, to enable
the Department TO decide whether il is Of equal
quality with the samples 10 be exhibited.
The party proposing 10 supply the articles will
make an invoice of all the items embraced i'm the
above ist, and affx the prices in dollars and cents
at which he they will furnish them, deliverable
in New York, Tor If the contractor prefers it, about
onc-half Of the quantity may be delivered in st.
Louis, Missouri, free of expense to the Government,)
or before the 18th day of May next, assuming
the quantity of each article specified in this adj
vertiscment, and extending the cost, making an
aggregate of the whole invoice constituting the
bid. The goods will be inspected in New York
(and in st. Louis if any portion Of them should be
delivered thcre) by an agent OF the United States,
who will be appointed by the Department for the
purpose and TO ascertain the conformity Of the ar.
ticlcs purchased with the samples exhibited, when
the contract shall be made, and with the terms of
the contract ITSELF which shall contain clause that
If the articles not furnished within the time
prescribed, If they Of insufficient quality in
the opinion Of the agent aforesaid and if within
i've days after notice OF such insufhciency the
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of the
required quality, the United States shall be author
lied 10 purchase them Of others, and to charge any
increase Of price they may be compelled TO pay
therefor TO the contractor, who shall pay the said
difference 70 the United States.
Bonds will be required, in the amount of the bids
with two good suretics, the sufficency of whom TO
be certified by United States Judge or District
Attorney, for the faithful performance of the con
tracts. Payment will be made after the contract is
completed and the delivery Of the goods as afore.
said TO agent Of the Department, upon dupli-
cate invoice certified by him.
Communications to be marked Proposals for
Indian goods."
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and will be received that are not
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 (or WEI propose 10 furnish for the service Of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed 20 them respectively, viz:
(IIcre insert the list Of goods)
Deliverable ~ tbo cttv nf Nou VI H. "a