The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-08

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DRY Goods
900 yards scarlet strouds
800 yards blue strouds
$500 yards fancy list cloth, blue
$50 yards fancy list cloth, scarlet
$50 yards fancy list cloth, green
900 yards gray list cloth, blue
5000 yards saved list cloth, blue
900 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchief
IT'S dozen black silk handkerchefs
80 dozen S-4 cotton sbaws
so dozen 81 cotton shawls
TO dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen ga woollen shawls
% 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
1000 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
1000 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shirting, beached
5000 yards domestic shrting, unbleached
$4,000 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks stripes, and piaids
400 dozen woollcn socks
900 yards plaid linscy
800 yards hannels, assorted
900 flannel shirts
700 calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton, Nos. to 80
so pounds sewing silk
100 pieces rband, assorted
1900 yards bed ticking
1000 yards Kentucky jeans
500 yards sattinets
80 gross worsted gathering
200 pounds Chinese vermillion
20 dozen silk handkerchefs, bark and Bandana
loo gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
l,7S0 pounds brass kettles
$50 tin kettles
10 nests of japanned kettles, in nest
go dozen butcher knives
2S 900 gun flints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
q, 900 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
u dozen axes, to weigh from a to 5. pounds
80 dozen half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
"a dozen hatchets, To weigh IA pounds
agricultural Implements, sc.
100 axes, TO weigh from ~ to 5, pounds
400 half axes, to weigh 3. pounds
| 200 hatchets, to weigh pounds
| 25 broad axes
| 200 drawing knives, ~ inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of !, l. Z, and
inch
$50 pairs names
80 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
500 wedding hoes
IFS hand saws
| 40 cross cut saws, Z feet in length
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
80 log chains, TO weigh 25 pounds each
900 Whttemore cards, No. 10
| 700 quarter socket chisels
30 planes, fore and jack
! Northwest Guns.
| $50 Northwest guns, two thirds Of which must
measure 80 inches in length of barrel, and
| one third ~ inches, 10 be delivered in the
city of New York or Philadelphia may
| be required.
Samples Of all the above articles deposited in
the office Of the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs;
and it may be proper TO remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
entirely new, and of better quality than the
tices heretofore furnished under former contracts.
The proposals. may be divided into four parts, viz:
| LIST. Blankets.
| ID. Dry goods.
3D. Hardware, to include agricultural imple-
| ments, &c.
| 4th. Northwest guns.
| The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
celyc the whole or any part Of the contract accord
ing to the above scale the Department reserving ~
itself the right 10 determine whether the bidder is
/ competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount in money 10 be applied to the
purchase VI goods will be about SO, 200, but the
| Department reserves the right 10 increase di-
| minish the quantity Of any Of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof TO require al
| similar prices, such goods may be wanted for
presents other purposes in the administration Of
| the affairs Of the Department. Goods of American
| manufacture all other things being equal, will be
preferred; but all the samples Of blankets and
cloths Of foreign manufacture, il will be neces-
| sary, when domestic article il bid for, that a
| sample Of il should accompany the bid 20 enable
| the Department to decide whether il is Of equal
| quality with the samples To be exhibited
| The party proposing 10 supply the articles will
make an invoice Of ali the items embraced in the
above list and afx the prices, in dollars and cents
| at which he or they will furnish them dciverabl,
In New York, Tor If the contractor prefers it, about
one-haf Of the quantity may be delivered in St
Louis, Missouri free Of 1pense to the Government
on or before the 18th day of May next, assuming
the quantity Of each article specified in this al
| vcrtiscmcnt, and extending the cost, making an
| aggregate OF the whole invoice constituting th,
bid. The goods will be inspected in New Yorl
(and in 81. Louis if any portion Of them should b.
delivered there) by agent Of the United States
who will be appointed by the Department for th'
purpose, and u ascertain the conformity Of the
ticles purchased with the samples exhibited, wheI
the contract shall be made, and with the terms o
the contract itself, which shall contain clause tina
If the articles are not furnished within the tim,
prescribed, ii they Of insufficient quality il
lie opinion of the agent aforesaid, and il within
| FIVE days after notice Of such insufficiency tn,
party shall furnish others in lieu thereof Of tn
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 70 the contractor, who shall pay the saIC
difference to the United States.
Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids
with two good sureties, the sufiicieDcy Of whom 4
be certified by United States Judge or Distric
Attorney, for the faithful performance Of the con
tracts. Payment will be. made after the contract i
completed and the delivery of the goods a. afOrc
| said 30 agent Of the Department, upon duph
cate invoice certified by him.
Communication TO be marked Proposals. 70
Indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that are no
made ia the form and terms here prescribed
81 (or we) propose 70 furnish for the service q
the Indian Department the following goods, at tn
prices afhSed 70 them respectively, Viz:
tHcre insert the list Of yoods.)
= Deliverable in the city Of New York Tor st. Louis
on Or bi"re the day Of - next; and ia o