The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-22

Dry Goods.
900 yards scarlet strouds
800 yards blue strouds
800 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
800 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiets
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchiefs
It's dozen black silk handkerchief
80 dozen 81 cotton shawls
so dozen Ga cotton shawls
65 dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen Sd woollen shawls
% 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10, 600 yards Merrmack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
| 800 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shrting, bleached
$4,000 yards domestic shirting, unblcached
$1,000 yards domestic sheeting unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linsey
500 yards hannels, assorted
500 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
300 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
so gross fancy and clay pipes
HardUdre
$50 pounds brass kettles
$50 tin kettles
10 nests of japanned kettles, & in nest
276 dozen butcher knives
IS 900 gun hints
% gross squaw avis
! 900 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
q, 900 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
y dozen axes. to weigh from a to 81 pounds
90 dozen half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
- dozen hatchets, W weigh ! pounds
Agricultural Implements, &c.
100 axes, to weigh from A to 81 pounds
400 half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
200 hatchets, TO weigh pounds
200 drawing knives, II inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of J, /, Z, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
500 wedding hoes
I75 hand saws
40 cross cut saws, feet in length
10 cross-cut saws, o feet in length
100 hand saw files
100 Cross-Cut files
40 log chains, to weigh rs pounds each
900 Whittemore cards. No. 10
700 quarter socket chisels
80 planes, fore and jack
Northwest Guns.
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measure SO inches in length of barrel, and
one third AZ inches, to be delivered in the
city of New York Philadelphia, as may
be required.
Samples of all the above articles are deposited in
the Office Of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and 1t may be proper To remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
entirely new, and of better quality than the
ticles heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into four parts, viz:
LIST. Blankets.
3D. Dry goods
3D. Hardware, 10 include agricultural mple-
ments, &c.
4th. Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceive the whole any part Of the contract accord.
ing TO the above scale, the Department reservng TO
itself the right ~ determine whether the bidder il
competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount in money to be applied 20 the
purchase of goods will be about 100000, but the
Department reserves the right TO increase di-
minish the quantity Of any of the articles named
or substitute others in lieu thereof 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, il will be
sary, when domestic article is bid for, that a
sample Of it should accompany the bid, to enable
the Department 90 decide whether it is Of equal
quality with the samples 10 be exhibited.
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| make an invoice Of all the items embraced in the
above list and afx the prices, in dollars and cents,
at which he OF they will furnish them, deliverable
in New York (or If the contractor prefers it, about
one. half of the quantity may be delivered in st.
Louis Missouri, free Of expense TO the Government
on before the 18th day of May next, assuming
the quantity Of each article specified in this adj
vertisemcnt, 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, II any portion Of them should be
delivered there) by ain agent Of the United States,
who will be appointed by the Department for the
purpose, and 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
il the articles are 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 insufhciency the
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof of the
required quality, the United States shall be author
lied TO 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 20 the United States
Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids
with two good surcties, the sufficency Of whom ~
be certified by United States Judge 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 70 an agent Of the Department, upon duph-
cate invoice certified by him.
Communications to be marked Proposals for
Indian goods
The bids will b. submitted with the following
heading, and will BE- received that not
| made in the form and terms here prescribed
81 Tor WEI propose 10 furnish for the service Of
the INDIAN Department the following goods, at the
prices atfIed u them respectively, viz
Here insert the list Of goods)
Deliverable in the city Of New York Tor St. Louis)
| on or before the day a. next; and in case Of