The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-09

weigh SIX POUNDS
Dry Goods
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
1000 yards gray list cloth, blue
5000 yards saved list cloth, blue
500 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchlefs
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchieis
IT'S dozen black silk handkerchiets
80 dozen 81 cotton shawls
so dozen o. cotton shawls
65 dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen S-4 woollen shawls
Is 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10 900 yards Merrmack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
900 yards cottouade
1000 yards domestic shirting, beached
$4,000 yards domestic shirting, unbleached
Is 900 yards domestic sheetng, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and plads
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linsey
500 yards tlannels, assorted
600 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 riband, assorted
1900 yards bed ticking
900 yards Kentucky jeans
800 yards sattinets
$50 gross worsted garterng
200 pounds Chinese vermillion
20 dozen silk handkerchief, bark and Bandana
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
ESQ pounds brass kettles
900 tin kettles
10 nests Of japanned kettles, in nest
go dozen butcher knives
2o 900 gun fiints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
%, 900 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
u dozen axes, TO weigh from a to 8. pounds
80 dozen half axes, To weigh 81 pounds
"a dozen hatchets, 10 weigh u pounds
.4gricuitura! Implements, sc.
1870 axes 10 weigh from a. To 3 pounds
| 400 half axes, 10 weigh 3, pounds
200 hatchets, To weigh pounds
25 broad axes
200 drawing knives II inches in length
100 augers, in equal proportions OF ] !, 3 and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
800 pounds brass kettles
| 500 wedding hoes
l75 hand saws
40 cruss-cut saws, 7 feet in length
40 crOss-cut saws, feet ia length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
| 40 log chains 20 weigh 25 pounds each
| 600 Whttemore cards, No. 10
| 100 quarter socket chiscs
| 30 planes, fore and jack
.hOrfhlced Guns
$50 Northwest guns. two thirds Of which mus
measure 80 inches in length Of barrel, anc
| onethird ~ inches, to be delivered in tn,
| city Of New York or Philadelphia, az may
be required.
Samples Of all the above articles are deposited il
| the office Of the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
and il may b. proper ~ remark that those OF hard
/ ware, agricultural implements and northwest gum
are entirely new, and 81 better quality than the ar
ticlcs heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals. may be divided into four parts, viz
| lst Blankets.
%. Dry goods.
3D. Hardware, 81 include agricultural nipple
ments, &c.
| Ith. Northwest guns
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re
cevc.the whole or any part Of the contract accord
ing 10 the above scale, the Department rcserying Z
| itscf thc right b. determine whether the bidder j
| competent and responsible, or not
| The whole amount In money 90 be applied tO th'
| purchase Of goods will be about $50 900, but tn
| Department reserves the right 20 increase III
| minsh the quantity Of any Of the articles named
or substitute others in lieu thereof 10 require,
| similar prices, such goods may BE- wanted ~
presents other purposes, ia the administration
| the affairs Of the Department Goods Of American
manufacture, all other things being equal, will b.
preferred: but az all the samples Of blankets an,
cloths are Of foreign manufacture, IL will be neces
| sary when a domestic article d. bid for, that
sample Of il should accompany the bid, 10 enabl,
| the Department 70 decide whether II IL Of equa
| quality with the samples " b. exhibited.
| The party proposing b. supply the articles vii
| make an invoice Of all the items embraced ~ tr
above lst, and afhN the prices ia dollars and cents
at which be- or they will furnish them, deliyerabl
in New York cor II the contractor prefers IL, sbOu
one half Of the quantity may b. delivered in ~
Louis, Missouri free Of expense 10 the Government,
ON or before the 18th day Of May next, sssumin
the quantity Of each article specified in this al
vertiscmcnt and extending the cost, making a
| aggregate Of the whole invoice constituting "a
bid The goods will BE- inspected ia New NOr
land IN St Louis, II any portion Of them should b
delivered thcre) by agent II the United State
who will be- appointed by the Department Tor III
purpose, and ~ rtdin the conformity Of the al
ticles purchased with thc samples exhibited, whe
the contract shall b. made, and with the terms
the contract itself, which shall contain clause tbs
IL the articles are not furnished within the tim
prescribed, n they are 81 Insufficient quality
The opinion Of the agent slDrcsaid, and IL With
1--WE DAYS after notice Of such iusufficcncy N
party siiall not furnish others M lieu thereof Of u
required quality, the United States shall D. authoi
lied 70 purchase them Of othcrs, and - charge an
Increase Of price they may be compelled 10 pa
therefor 10 the contractor, who shall pay the sai
difference ~ the United States.
Bonds will be required, ia the amount Of the bid
with two good sureties, the sufiiciency Of whom
be certified by United States Judge Distr,
Attorney, for the faithful performance 81 the COZ
| tracts Payment will be made after the contract
eornplctcd and the delivery Of the goods sfor
said % an agent Of the Department, upon dupl
cate invoice certified by him.
Communications 10 be marked " Proposals. +
\ Indian gUOds."
The bids will b. submitted With the follOwin
, heading and none will b. received that are n
h made IN the form and terms here prescribed
= q" ! cor wc) propose 10 furnish for the service
,; The Indian Department the following goods, at u
prices affixed 10 them respectively, viz
. there insert the Inst II goods.)
r. Deliverable IL the city 81 New York (or ST. Loui
on OF before the day Of 1872 next; and in case