The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-19


Class No. 3-DoMEsrIc GooDs.
5000 yards domestic calico
10000 do Merrimac calico
$500 do blue drilling
s 900 do Georgia stripes
1000 do blue denms
600 do cottonade
1900 do bed ticking
1000 do Kentucky jeans
500 do satnetts
1000 do plaid linsey
900 do domestic shirting, bleached
$4,000 do domestic shrting, unbeached
Is, 900 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woolIen socks
500 yards fiannels, assorted
900 flannel shirts
100 calico shirts
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
Glass No. 4.-HARDwARE.
1850 pounds brass kettles
go dozen butcher knives
IS 900 gun flints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
$4,000 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
1000 tin kettles
76 nests, japanned kettles, s in a nest
Class No. 5.-AGRcULTURAL IMPLEMENrs
200 drawing knives u inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of h !, z, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
1900 wedding hoes
IT'S hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 Crosse cut saws, feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross cut saw files
40 log chains. 10 weigh 25 pounds each
GOO Whittemore cards, No. 10
900 quarters socket chiscls
80 planes, fore and jack
Class No. 6.-AxEs.
10 dozen axes, to weigh from a to 81 pounds
SO do half axes, 70 weigh 81 pounds
al do hatchets, to weigh l pounds
25 broad axes
Class No. 7.-NoRTHwEsT Guns.
$50 northwest guns, two. thirds Of which must
cure 80 inches in length Of barrel, and one
third AZ inches in length Of barrel, to be de-
liyered in New York or Philadelphia, may
be required.
Samples of all the above articles are 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
arc entirely new, and Of better quality than the
tices heretofore furnished under former contracts.
The proposals may be divided into seven parts,
viz.
LIST. Blankets.
ID. Dry goods.
Sd. Domestic goods,
4th. Hardware.
9th. Agricultural implements.
9th. Axes.
It'll. Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceive the whole or any part Of the contract accord
ing 10 the above scale the Department rescrving 10
itself the right 90 determine whether the bidder il
competent and responsible or not
The whole amount in money 10 be applied to the
purchase Of goods will be about 30 900, but the
ri Id az or al n
minish the quantity Of any Of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof 10 require, at
similar prices, such goods a. may be wanted for
presents or other purposes, in the administration Of
tho sf1airs Of the Department Goods Of American
manufacture, all other things being equal will be
preferred bot as all the samples Of blankets and
cloths are Of foreign manufacture, Il will be neces
sary when a domestic article is bid for, that a
pie Of IL should accompany the bid, 10 enable the
Department 10 decide whether Il IL Of equal quality
with the samples 10 be exhibited.
The party proposing 10 supply the articles will
make an invoice Of all the items embraced in the
above list, and affir the prices, in dollars and cents
at which he they will furnish them under each
class separately. deliverable Ia New York, Tor If
the contractor prefers H. about half Of the guam
tity may be delivered in st. Louis, Missouri, free
Of expense 20 the GOvernmcnt,) on or before the
l5th 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, IL any
portion Of them should be delivered therc) by an
agent of the United Statcs, who will be appointed
by the Department for the purpose and 20 ASCERTAIN
the conformity OF the articles purchased with the
samples Inhibited wben the contract shall be made,
and with the terms OF the contract ITSELF which shall
contain clause that II the articles notfurnishcd
within the time prescribed, or II they arc Of insult
cent quality in the opinion OF the agent aforesaid,
and IT, within FIVE days after notice of such insutfi-
cheney, the party shall not furnish others in lieu
thereof Of the required quality, the United States
shall be authorized TO purchase them OF others, and
10 charge any increase OF price they may be com
PEELED 70 pay therefor 20 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 suf1ciency OF whom 10
be certified by United States Judge or District
Attorney, for the faithful performance Of the con-
tracts. Payment will be made after the contract
is completed and the delivery OF the goods as afore
said to an agent Of the Department, upon dupli-
cate invoice certified by him.
Communication 10 be marked Proposals for
Indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with tho following
heading, and none will be received that are not
made ia the form and terms here prescribed.
81 Tor WEI propose TO furnish for the service Of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed 20 them respectively, viz:
(Here insert the list Of goods.
Deliverable in the city of New York Sr St. Louis)
/ on or before the - day Of - next and in case Of
the acceptance Of his proposals. the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, Tor we) will exc
! cute contract according 70 this agreement, and