The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-03

1000 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
1000 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, 3 fold
100 dozen cotton flag handerchiefs
$50 dozen cotton Madras handkerchefs
IT'S dozen black silk handSerchiefs
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
10 900 yards Merrimack calico
$500 yards blue drilling
5000 yards Georgia stripes
1000 yards blue denims
900 yards cottonade
I 900 yards domestic shrting, bleached
1900 yards domestic shirting, unblcached
1000 yards domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 yards checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1000 yards plaid linsey
800 yards fiannels, assorted
500 flannel shirts
TOO 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
1890 yards bed ticking
1000 yards Kentucky jeans
500 yards sattinets
$50 gross worsted gathering
200 pounds Chinese yermillion
20 dozen silk handkerchiefs, bark and Bandana
$50 gross fancy and clay pipes
Hardware.
l,7S0 pounds brass kettles
900 tin kettles
70 nests of iapanned kettles, s in nest
b,,tc harl y,,ix
2S 900 gun flints
25 gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
rs, 900 needles, assorted
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 dozen scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
y dozen axes, to weigh from a to 5. pounds
so dozen half axes To weigh 81 pounds
"a dozen hatchets TO weigh pounds
agricultural Implements, &c.
100 axes, to weigh from a to 8. pounds
400 half axes, TO weigh 81 pounds
200 hatrh"ss,. ~ ~sish 4r---A-
200 drawing knives, II inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of !, ], ?, 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
100 hand saw files
100 ss-Cut saw files
40 log chains, to weigh IS pounds each
600 Whittemore cards. No. 10
100 quarter socket chisels
90 planes, fore and jack
Northwest Cans.
$50 Northwest guns, two thirds Of which must
measure 80 inches in length of barrel, and
one third ~ inches, to be delivered in the
sitx NJ NJ w. Had. lnbt
be required.
Samples of all the above articles deposited in
the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
and II 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.
ID. Dry goods.
3D.. Hardware, to include agricultural nipple.
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 reserving TO
itself the right 10 determine whether the bidder is
| competent and responsible, or not
The whole amount in money 10 be applied 10 the
| purchase of goods will be about $4,000, but the
| Department reserves the right To increase or di-
minish the quantity of any Of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof To require at
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
the affairs ofthe Department. Goods of American
manufacture, all other things being equal, will be
| preferred but all the samples Of blankets and
cloths are of foreign manufacture, 1t will be ncces
! sary, when domestic article is bid for, that a
sample Of it should accompany the bid, 10 enable
the Department TO 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 afx the prices, in dollars and cents,
at which he or they will furnish Them deliverable
in New York, Tor If the contractor prefers it, about
one half Of the quantity may be delivered in st.
Louis, Missouri free OF expense to the Govcrnment,)
on or before the 9Th day of May next, assuming
the quantity of each article specified in this adj
vertsement, 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 if any portion of them should be
delivered there) by an agent of the United States,
who will be appointed by the Department for the
purpose, and to ascertain the conformity OF the ar
| 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
| If the articles 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 nsuficiency the
party shall not furnish others in lieu thereof Of the
required quality, the United States shall be author
lied 10 purchase them Of others, and 70 charge any
| increase Of price they may be compelled TO pay
therefor 10 the contractor, who shall pay the said
| difference 10 the United States.
| Bonds will be required, in the amount Of the bids,
with two good suretes, the suffciency OF whom TO
be certified by United States Judge or District
Attorney, for the faithful performance of the con-
tracts. Payment will be made after the contract il
| completed and the delivery Of the goods az afore
| said TO an agent Of the Department, upon dupl-
cate invoice certified by him
Communications TO be marked Proposals for
Indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that are not
| made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 Tor we) propose 10 furnish for the service OF
the Indian Department tie following goods, at the
| prices affixed TO them respectively, viz
(Here insert the list Of goods.)
Deliverable in the city Of New York Tor St LOUISE
on or before the - day II next; and in Gaze Of
the acceptance Of his proposals., the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, Tor wo) will ere