The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-27

DEPARTMENT OF raE IsrEsIoH.

LIS pairs point white Macklnac blankets, W
measure ~ by 50 inches, and weigh I'VE
and quarter pounds
$50 pairs point white Mackinac blankets, TO
measure SO by 80 inches, and weigh four
and quarter pounds
900 pairs point white Mackinac blankets, To
measure 32 by 46 inches, and weigh three
and quarter pounds
400 pairs point scarlet Mackinac blankets, 10
measure 60 by 70 inches, and weigh eight
pounds
800 pairs 2. point scarlet Mac knac blankets, to
measure 81 by 66 inches, and weigh SIX
pounds
100 pairs 81 point green Mackinac blankets, to
measure sc by 81 inches, and weigh ten
pounds
300 pairs point green Macknac blankets. to
measure 60 by 70 inches, and weigh eight
pounds
$50 pairs 81 point green Mackinac blankets, to
measure 81 by sc inches, and weigh SIX
pounds
100 pairs g. point gentinella blue Mackinac
blankets, to measure 66 by "a inches, and
weigh ten pounds
400 pairs point gentinella blue Macklnac
blankets, to measure 60 by 70 inches, and
weigh eight pounds
800 pairs a point gentinella blue Mackinac
blankets, to measure 81 by 60 inches. and
weigh six pounds
Dry Goods.
900 yards scarlet strouds
800 yards blue strouds
1880 yards fancy list cloth, blue
$50 yards fancy list cloth, scarlet
$50 yards fancy list cloth, green
ZOO yards gray list cloth, blue
1900 yards saved list cloth, blue
1000 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
go dozen cotton Madras handkerchief
IT'S dozen black silk handkerchiefs
80 dozen S-4 cotton shawls
so dozen GA cotton shawls
65 dozen A cotton shawls
40 dozen 81 woollen shawls
23 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10000 yards Merrmack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
600 yards cottonade
1000 yards domestic shirting, bleached
II 5000 yards domestic shirting, unbleached
200 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and paids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linscy
500 yards hannels, assorted
900 flannel shirts
700 calico shirts
430 pounds linen thread
$50 pounds cotton thread
| 400 dozen spool cotton, Nos 10 30
so pounds sewing silk
100 pieces riband, assorted
4,3OO yards bed ticking
1000 yards Kentucky jeans
500 yards sattinets
$50 gross worsted gathering
200 pounds Chinese vermillion
20 dozen silk handkerchiefs, bark and Bandans
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
HardUare
1850 pounds brass kettles
1890 tin kettles
rs nests of apanned kettles, 3 in nest
276 dozen butcher knives
%, 900 gun fiints
25 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 dozen ssss to weigh from = to pounds
"a dozen hatchets, to weigh ! pounds
! agricultural Implements, &c.
1870 axes, to weigh from II to ST pounds
400 half axes, TO weigh 81 pounds
200 hatchets, TO weigh Il pounds
! 200 drawing knives, ~ inches in length
100 augers, in equal proportions of | Il, ?, anc
inch
! $50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
800 pounds brass kettles
| 500 wedding hoes
lis hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, Z feet in length
! 40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
/ 100 hand-saw files
/ 100 cross-cut saw files
! 40 log chains, to weigh 25 pounds each
600 Whittemore cards, No. 10
700 quarter socket chisels
90 planes, fore and jack
Northwest Guns.
$50 Northwest guns, two-t thirds Of which mus
/ measure SO inches in length of barrel, anC
I one-third ~ inches, TO be delivered in tn,
city Of New York or Philadelphia, as may
be required.
anfa tho ahoxa I'll dor tod 4,
the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
and il may be proper 70 remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural Implements, and northwest gum
are 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
ID. Dry goods.
3D.. Hardware, TO include agricultural nipple
ments, &c.
4th. Northwest guns
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re
ceve the whole or any part Of the contract accord
ing to the above scale, the Department rcserving 4
itself the right TO determine whether the bidder i
competent and responsible, or not.
The whole amount in money to be applied TO tn
purchase of goods will be about $50 0O0 but tn
Department reserves the right 70 increase or di
minish the quantity of any Of the articles named
or substitute others in lieu thereof require
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted 70
presents other purposes, in the administration 0
the affairs Of the Department Goods Of American
Manufacture, all oulcr tnlnRs Dclng equal, VIII b
preferred; but az all the samples of blankets am
cloths Of foreign manufacture, it will be ncces
sary, when a domestic article is bid for, that
sample of il should accompany the bid, to enabl
the Department 10 decide whether ii is of equs
quality with the samples TO be exhibited
The party proposing to supply the articles vii
make an invoice Of ali the items embraced in tn
above list, and sfr the prices in dollars and cents
at which he or they will furnish them, deliverabl
in New York, Tor II the contractor prefers il, abou
half Of the quantity may be delivered in 81
Louis, Missouri, free of expense to the Government,
on or before the 10th day of May next, assuming
the quantity OF each article specified in tins ad
vertisemcni, and extending the cost, making a
aggregate Of the whole invoice constituting tn
bid. The goods will be inspected in New Yor
(and in 1t. Louis, If any portion Of them should
delivered there) by agent Of the United States
who will be appointed by the Department for tn
purpose and 70 ascertain the conformity of the ar
tcles purchased with the samples exhibited, whe
the contract shall be made, and with the terms
the contract ITSELF which shall contain a clause tha
IL the articles not furnished within the tim
prescribed, or II they Of insufficient quality ]
the opinion Of the agent aforesaid, and If With
FIVE days after notice Of such insufficiency tn
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of tn
required quality, the United States shall be author
ized ~ purchase them Of others, and to charge an