The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-29

900 yards scarlet strouds
500 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
500 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
800 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
go dozen cotton Madras handkerchiets
It's dozen black silk handkerchief
80 dozen 81 cotton shawls
so dozen O. cotton shawls
65 dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen ST. woollen shawls
IS 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10000 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
600 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shirting, bleached g
$4,000 yards domestic shirting, unblcached
$1,000 yards domestic sheetng, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linsey
800 yards hannels, assorted "
600 flannel shirts
100 calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton, Nos TO 80
so pounds sewing silk
700 pieces riband, assorted
1900 yards bed ticking ~
900 yards Kentucky jeans
500 yards sattinets
$50 gross worsted gathering
200 pounds Chinese vermillion
20 dozen silk handkerchief, bark and Bandana
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
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$50 pounds brass kettles
900 tin kettles u 1874
76 nests of japanned kettles, 8 in a nest
90 dozen butcher knives
2S 1000 gun fints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks ~.
20 dozen fish lines RAJ
5000 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
IL dozen axes, to weigh from a to s.. pounds
so dozen half axes, 10 weigh 81 pounds
"a dozen hatchcts, 10 weigh ! pounds
agricultural Implements, SC.
100 axes to weigh from ~ To 5! pounds
400 half axes, to weigh g. pounds
200 hatchets, TO weigh pounds
25 broad axes
200 drawing knives, IL inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions Of J, !, 7, and
inch
$50 pairs names
100 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
800 wedding hoes
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 CROSSE cut saws, feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
40 log chains, 10 weigh % pounds each
600 Whittemore cards, No. 10
700 quarter socket chisels
20 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, TO be delivered in the
city of New York or Philadelphia, as 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
ticcs heretofore furnished under former contracts.
The proposals may be divided into four parts, viz:
LIT. Blankets.
ID. Dry goods.
Sd. Hardware, to include agricultural imple-
mcnts, &c.
4th Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceive the whole or any part of the contract accord
ing TO the above scale the Department reserving 10
itself the right TO 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 $4,000, but the
Department reserves the right 10 increase or di-
minish the quantity Of any Of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof or TO require, at
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 as all the samples of blankets and
cloths of foreign manufacture, it will be
I sary, when a domestic article is bid for, that "a
sample Of it should accompany the bid, 10 enable
the Department 70 decide whether il is Of equal
quality with the samples 10 be exhibited.
The party proposing TO supply the articles will
make an invoice Of all the items embraced in the
above list and afx the prices, in dollars and cents
at WHICH hc they will furnish them, deliverable
in New York. Tor II the contractor prefers IL, about
one half Of the quantity may be delivered in St
Louis, Missouri free Of expense TO the Government
on before the 9Th day Of May next, assuming
the quantity of each article specified in this adj
vcrtisemcnt, 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 there) by am agent of the United States
purpose, and 10 ascertain the conformity Of the
ticles 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 arc not furnished within the time
prescribed If they are of insufficient quality in
the opinion Of the agent aforesaid, and if within
five days after notice of such insuihciency the
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of the
required quality the United States shall be author.
lied 20 purchase them Of others, and to charge any
increase of price they may be compelled to pay
therefor 10 the contractor, who shall pay the said
difference 10 the United States.
Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids,
with two good surctes, the suffciency 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 aforc.
said TO an agent Of the Department upon a dupli-
cate invoice certified by him.
Communications TO be marked " Proposals for
| Indian goods."
The bids will be submitted with the following
| heading and none will be received that are not
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 (or we) propose to furnish for the service Of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
| prices affixed TO them respectively, viz
(IIere insert the listof goods)
Deliverable in the city Of New York Cor St. Louis)