The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-29

10 900 do Merrmac calico
$500 do blue drilling
5000 do Georgia stripes
1000 do blue denims
900 do cottonade
1900 do bed ticking
200 do Kentucky jeans
500 do satinetts
900 do plaid linscy
1000 do domestic shirting, bleached
$1,000 do domestic shrting, unbleachcd
$1,000 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen cocks
800 yards tiannels, assorted
900 flannel shirts
100 calico shirts
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
Class No. 4.-HARDwARE.
1850 pounds brass kettles
216 dozen butcher knives
% 900 gun lints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
25 900 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
900 tin kettles
rs nests, japanned kettles, s in nest
Class No. 5.-AGRIcULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
200 drawing knives u inches in length
100 augers, in equal proportions OF I, |, :, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
1900 wedding hoes
IT'S hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 cro5s-cut saws, feet in length
100 hand saw files
100 cross cut saw files
40 log chains, TO weigh 25 pounds each
GOO Whittemore cards, No. 10
GOO quarters socket chsels
go planes, fore and jack
Class No. 6-AxEs.
10 dozen axes, to weigh from d to s. pounds
SO do half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
al do hatchets, to weigh | pounds
25 broad axes
Class No. 7.-NoRTHwEsT GUNS.
$50 northwest guns two thirds of which must mea-
sure 36 inches in length of barrel, and one
third ~ inches in length Of barrel, TO be de-
livered in New York or Philadelphia, may
be required.
Samples of all the above articles arc deposited in
the office of tho Commissioner of Indian Affairs !;
and il may be proper TO remark that those of hard
ware, agriculturalimplcment and northwest guns
arc entirely new, and of better quality than the ar
tcles heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into seven parts,
viz
LIST. Blankets.
ID. Dry goods.
3D.. Domestic goods.
4th. Hardware.
5th Agricultural implements.
9th AKes.
7th Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceive the whole any part of the contract accord
ing 20 the above scale, the Department rescrvng to
tself the right 10 determine whether the bidder is
competent and responsible not.
+ The whole amount in money 10 be applied TO the
purchase Of goods will be about $4,000, but the
Department reserves the right 10 increase or di-
minish the quantity Of any Of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof TO require Mt
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
presents other purposes in the administration Of
the affairs of the Department. Goods of American
manufacture, oil other things being equal will be
preferred but as oil the samples OF blankets and
cloths of foreign manufacture, il will be
sary when domestic article is bid for, that
pie Of IL should accompany the bid, To enable the
Department TO decide whether is Of equal quality
with the samples TO be exhibited
The party proposing to supply the ftioles will
make invoice of oil the items embraced in the
above list, and afX the prices, in dollars and cents
at which he or they will furnish them under each
class separately, deliverable in New York. (or if
the contractor prefers it, about onchaf Of the guam
tity may be delivered in st. Louis, Missouri, free
of expense to the Govcrnment,) or before the
18Th day of May next, assuming the quantity of
each article specified in this advertisement, 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 or the articles 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, II they are of insult
cient quality in the opinion Of the agent aforesaid,
and IT, within five days after notice Of such INSULT
cheney, the party shall not furnish others in lieu
thereof of the required quality, tho United States
shall be authorized to purchase them of Others and
70 charge any increase of price they may be com
peeled TO pay therefor 60 the contractor, who shall
pay the said difference to the United States.
Bonds will be required in the amount of the bids,
with two good sureties, the sufhciency of whom To
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
s completed and the delivery of the goods IA afore-
said TO an agent of the Department, upon dupli-
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:
al Tor we) propose to furnish for the service of
the Indian Department the following goods at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz
(Here insert the list of goods
Deliverable in the city of New York or St Louis)
on or before the - day Of - next; and in case of
the acceptance Of bis proposals. the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, Tor we) will exc
cute contract according TO this agreement, and