The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-30

weigh SIX POUNDS
Dry Goods.
900 yards scarlet strouds
500 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
1900 yards saved list cloth, blue
600 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list CLOTH green
go pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handercheis
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchiefs
IT'S dozen black silk handkerchief
90 dozen Sd cotton shawls
so dozen o. cotton shawls
65 dozen Al cotton shawls
40 dozen ga woollen shawls
2S 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10 900 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
900 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shirting, bleached
$1,000 yards domestic shirting, unbleached
$4,000 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linscy
800 yards tannels, assorted
800 ianne shirts
100 calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton, Nos. to 80
50 pounds sewing silk
700 pieces riband, assorted
1900 yards bed ticking
1000 yards Kentucky jeans
900 yards sattlnets
$50 gross worsted gathering
300 pounds Chinese vermillion
20 dozen silk handkercbets, bark and Bandana
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
l,7s0 pounds brass kettles
900 tin kettles
10 nests of japanned kettles, in nest
go dozen butcher knives
2S 900 gun f1ints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
$4,000 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, 10 weigh 81 pounds
"a dozen hatchets, 10 weigh pounds
Agricultural Implements, &c.
1870 axes, to weigh from ~ 10 5, pounds
400 half axes, To weigh g. pounds
200 hatohets, 10 weigh Z pounds
25 broad axes
200 drawing knives, II inches in length
200 augers, in equal proportions Of 2, /, Z, and
inch
l50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
500 wedding hoes
l15 hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, I feet in length
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
40 log chains, 10 weigh % pounds each
COO Whittemore cards, No. 10
100 quarter socket Chsels
30 planes, fore and jack
Northwest Guns.
! $50 Northwest guns two thirds Of which must
| measure 80 inches in length of barrel, and
onc-third ~ inches 10 be delivered in the
city of New York Philadelphia, may
/ be required.
Samples Of all the above articles are deposited in
the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
are entirely new and If better quality than the
tices heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into four parts, viz:
Let. Blankets.
1 ID. Dry goods.
Sd. Hardware to include agricultural nipple.
u ments, &c.
/, 9TH Northwest guns
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
Ceivc the whole any part of the contract accord
ing to the above scale, the Department rcserving 10
/ itself the right TO determine whether the bidder is
competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount IN money 10 be applied 20 the
purchase Of goods will be about S96.0O0 but the
mnish the quantity of any of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof 10 require al
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
presents or other purposes, IN the administration O
/ the affairs Of the Department Goods of American
manufacture, all other things being equal will b,
/ prcferred but all the samples Of blankets and
cloths are of foreign manufacture il will be
! sary, when a domestic article is bid for, that
/ sample Of il should accompany the bid, 10 enable
\ the Department 20 decide whether IL Is Of cqua
I quality with the samples 10 b. exhibited
! The party proposing 10 supply the articles viii
/ make an invoice Of all the items embraced i'm tn,
above list, and atiix the prices in dollars and cents
At which hc they will furnish them, dcliverabl,
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 10 the Government
! on Or before the 18th day OF May next, assuming
the quantity of each article specified in this adj
yertiscmcnt, and extending the cost making an
! aggregate of the whole invoice constituting th,
/ bid The goods will be inspected in New Yorl
(and in ~. Louis, # any portion OF them should b'
delivered thcrc) by agent Of the United States
| who will be appointed by the Department for tic
purpose and ~ ascertain the conformity of the ar
ticcs purchased with the samples exhibited, whcr
the contract shall be made, and with the terms .
the contract itself which shall contain a clause tina
If the articles are not furnished within the tim,
prescribed, if they Of insufficient quality IL
! the opinion OF the agent aforesaid, and If within
I five days after notice of such insufhciency tho
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of III,
lied 10 purchase them Of Others and to charge any
increase Of price they may be compelled 10 pay
therefor ~ the contractor, who shall pay the salc
! difference 10 the United States
Bonds will b. required, in the amount of the bids
with two good suretics, the suffcency OF whom q
be certified by a United States Judge or District
Attorney for the faithful performance OF the con
tracts Payment will be made after the contract u
completed and the delivery of the goods az aiore
said 10 agent Of the Department, upon duph
/ cate invoice certified bY him.
Communications to be marked Proposals iOi
! Indian goods"
The bid- will b. submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that are moi
1 made in the form aud terms here prescribed
! 81 Tor wc) propose 10 furnish Tor the service d
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices alhxed 10 them respectively, viz:
(flerc insert the list Of goods.)
Deliverable in the city Of New York Tor ~. Douis)
on or before the day Jf next and IN case o
the acceptance Of his proposals, the quantity being
prescribed by the Department., Tor WEI will exc.