The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-06-25
STATIONERY, PRINTING, AND
BINDING.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, May o. lS49
CEPARATE SEALED PROPOSALS will be
y received at the Office of the Secretary of the
Navy, until O'Clock, p. m, the 18th day of June
next for furnishing all the Stationery and executing
all the Printing and Binding that may be required
by the Navy Department and its several Bureaus
for the year commencing the LIST of July, l849, and
ending on the 30th June, 1850.
All the articles furnished, and work executed,
must be of the best quality, delivered without delay
when ordered and to the satisfaction of the head of
the Office for which they required. If II be re-
quired each bidder for stationery must furnish with
his proposal a sample of each article bid for.
To ensure uniformity in the proposals, blank
forms will be furnished to those disposed to bid;
and no bid will be considered not fully conforming
to The advertisement, and in which each and every
article is not bid for, and in which than one
price is named for any one article.
Bond, in sufficient amount, with two more
approved suretes for the faithful execution of the
contract, will be required Of the person persons
contracting. The authorized name or names Of the
sureties that will be gwen also satisfactory tes-
timonials to fulfil contract, must accompany the
bid otherwise it will not be considered.
The Department reserves to itself the right of
ordering greater or less quantity of each and every
article contracted for, the public service may
quire
Should any article be required not enumerated in
the contract, it is to be furnished at the lowest
market price, according to its quality.
STATIONERY.
Writing Paper Of linen stock.
8 reams folio post, blue or white, ruled, per
ream
10 reams Owen & Hurlbut's superior blue-laid
foolscap, weighing not less than l6 pounds
per ream, Of any other manufacture Of
equal quality, per .ream
10 reams Southworth s extra superhne foolscap,
wove, blue white, ruled, weighing not
less than 10 pounds per ream, or of any other
manufacture Of equal quality, per ream
10 reams Southworths Congress extra superhne
quarto post paper, blue or white, ruled,
weighing not less than pounds per ream,
or of any other manufacture of equal quality,
per ream
20 reams Jessup's first class quarto post, wove
or laid, blue or white, ruled, weighing 9
pounds per ream, or of any other manufac-
turc Of equal quality, per ream
30 reams Planter, Smith d Co.'S extra superhne
blue wove quarto post, ruled, weighing 81
pounds per ream, per ream
80 reams best yellow or buff envelopng paper,
fiat, per ream
10 reams best white enveloping paper, smooth
surface, fat, 20 by Is inches, per ream
reams note paper, gilt-edged, per ream
20 reams copying or tissue paper, quarto post,
per rcam
5 reams best French quarto post paper, ruled,
per ream
$50 sheets best tracing paper 40 by 81 inches, per
sheet
3 reams blotting paper, royal, per ream
$50 sheets best drawing paper, from medium to
antiquarian, per sheet
500 sheets of parchment, best prepared, Ia by Is,
per sheet
50 dozen cards steel pens (the Department to
have the liberty Of selecting from all the diff
ferent kinds manufactured, English or Anne
rican, in the market,) IL on card, per dozen
cards
100 cards Perry's pens, assorted, per card
gross Damascus pens, in boxes, with one
dozen holders, per gross
gross of any Of JOS Glllotts pens I'm boxes)
the Department may select, per gross
6 cards engineers pens, per card
4 do lithographic pens do
4 dozen quart bottles Maynard q Noyess black
ink, per dozen
4 dozen quart bottles Hoover's black ink, per
dozen
dozen quart bottles blue ink, per dozen
3 dozen quart bottles best London copying ink,
Arnold's or Terry's, per dozen
! 3 dozen gill bottles Arnold's red ink, per doz.
! 100 swan quilts, best quality, per 100
1000 quilts No 80, opaque or clarified, per 100
100 crow or Brandt quilts do