The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-06

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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
900 Yards gray list cloth, blue
5000 yards saved list cloth, blue
900 yards saved list cloth, scarlet
500 yards saved list cloth, green
225 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchiefs
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
p, 900 yards domestic calico
5000 yards English and French calico
10000 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
900 yards cottonade
1000 Yards domestic shirting, bleached
| 5 900 yards domestic shirtng, unbleached
Is 900 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and piaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linsey
| 500 yards iannels, 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
100 pieces riband, assorted
1900 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
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
ESQ pounds brass kettles
| 1870 tin kettles
10 nests of iapanned kettles, 3 in a nest
276 dozen butcher knives
2s 900 gun fiints
Is gross squaw avis
1000 FISH hooks
% dozen fish lines
5000 needles, assorted
100 dozen COMBS assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
II dozen axes TO weigh from a to 5. pounds
80 dozen half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
"a dozen hatchets, To weigh pounds
agricultural Implements, SC.
100 axes, to weigh from Al to 5, pounds
400 half axes To weigh g. pounds
200 hatchets, to weigh pounds
IS broad axes
200 drawing knives, u inches in length
200 augers, in equal proportions OF !, !, Z, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
300 pounds brass kettles
500 wedding hoes
l75 hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
40 log chains, TO weigh % pounds each
coo WhittemOre cards, No. 10
100 quarter socket chises
90 planes, fore and jack
Northwest Guns.
go Northwest guns, two-thirds Of which must
measure 80 inches in length OF barrel, and
one third ~ inches, TO be delivered in the
city of New York or Philadelphia, ar may
be required.
samples Of all the above articles deposited in
the office Of the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs;
and il may be proper TO remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural Implements, and northwest guns
entirely new, and Of better quality than the ar
ticles heretofore furnished under former contracts.
The proposals may be divided into four parts, viz:
LIST Blankets.
ID. Dry goods.
81. Hardware, to include agricultural imple-
ments, &c
4th. Northwest guns
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceve the whole or any part Of the contract accord
ing the above scale, the Department reserying TO
itself the right 70 determine whether the bidder is
| competent and responsible, not.
The whole amount in money to be applied 70 the
purchase Of goods will be about $4,000, but the
Department reserves the right 10 increase or di-
| mnsh the quantity Of any Of the articles named,
or substitute others In lieu thereof 10 require, at
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
presents or other purposes in the administration OF
| the affairs Of the Department Goods Of American
manufacture, all other things being equal, will be
| preferred; but all the samples Of blankets and
cloths Of foreign manufacture II will be noces
| sary, when domestic article II bid for, that a
sample Of IL should accompany the bid 10 enable
the Department 10 decide whether il is Of equal
quality with the samples TO be exhibited.
The party proposing TO supply the articles will
make an invoice Of all the items embraced in the
above list, and afN the prices in dollars and cents
az which he or they will furnish them, deliverable
in New York, COR II the contractor prefers IL, about
| one half Of the quantity may be delivered i'm 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
| vcrtisement, and extending the cost, making ar
| aggregate Of the whole invoice constituting th'
! bid. The goods will be inspected In New lorl
land in ~. Louis II any portion Of them should b.
| delivered there) by agent Of the United States
| who will be- appointed by the Department for tn
purpose, and ~ ascertain the conformity Of the
ticles purchased with the samples exhibited, whei
the contract shall b. made, and with the terms o
the contract itself which shall contain clause tina
/ if the articles not furnished within the tim
prescribed, If they are of insufficient quality il
the opinion Of the agent aforesaid, and II within
| five dave after notice Of such insufhciency TIA
marty shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of IN
required quality the United States shall be author
lied 20 purchase them Of others, and to charge an,
increase Of price they may be compelled 70 pa.
therefor, ~ the contractor, who shall pay the sa
difference ~ the United States.
Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids
with two good surcties, the suficiency Of whom 3
| be certified by a United States Judge or Distric
Attorney, for The faithful performance Of the con
| tracts Payment will be made after the contract
completed and the delivery Of the goods as sfore
said % an agent Of the Department, upon dupli
cate invoice certified by him
Communications TO be marked Proposals. 70
| Indian goods"
The bids will b. submitted with the folowin
heading, and none will be received that are nc
. made in the form and terms here prescribed
- Tor we) propose 10 furnish for the service {
) the Indian Department the following goods, At th
prices affixed 20 them respectively, viz
(Iierc insert the stof goods
e Deliverable in the city Of New York Tor St Louis
on Of before the day Of next; and in csso