The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-18

StUSS JNO. O.-bOMESIlC oOObS.
80 900 yards domestic calico
10000 do Merrimac calico
$500 do blue drilling
900 do Georgia stripes
1900 do blue denims
500 90 cottonade
300 do bed ticking
900 do Kentucky Jeans
500 do satinetts
900 do plaid linsey
1000 do domestic shifting, bleached
Is, 900 do domestic shirting, unbleached
$4,000 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
800 yards flannels, assorted
900 flannel shirts
700 calico shirts
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
Class No 4.-HARDwARE.
1850 pounds brass kettles
276 dozen butcher knives
% 900 gun hints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
%, 900 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
900 tin kettles
10 nests, japanned kettles, s in nest
Class No 5.-AGR1cuLTuRAL IMPLEMENTS.
200 drawing knives IL inches in length
200 augers, In equal proportions OF b /, 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 cross cut saws, feet in length
100 hand saw files
100 cross cut files
40 log chains, to weigh IS pounds each
GOO Whittemore cards, No. 10
600 quarters socket chisels
go planes, fore and jack
Class No. 6.-AXEs.
10 dozen axes, to weigh from a. 10 8! pounds
50 do half axes, 10 weigh 81 pounds
Al do hatchets, to weigh Z pounds
Is broad axes
Class No. 7.-NoRTHwEsT GUNS.
$50 northwest guns, two thirds of which must mea-
sure 80 inches in length of barrel, and one
third az inches in length OF barrel, to be de-
livered in New York or Philadelphia, as 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 20 remark that those OF hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
are entirely new and of better quality than the
ticles heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into seven parts,
viz:
let. Blankets.
I'd. Dry goods.
Sd. Domestic goods.
4th. Hardware.
5th. Agricultural implements.
9th. Axes.
It'll. Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceve 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 TO be applied to the
| purchase of goods will be about 1000, but the
Department reserves the right 20 increase or di-
minish the quantity Of any Of the articles named
or substitute others in lieu thereof to require, at
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, all other things being equal, will be
| preferred but as all the samples OF blankets and
cloths of foreign manufacture, IL will be neces
sary, when domestic article ~ bid for that sam
| pic of IL should accompany the bid, to enable the
Department decide whether it is Of equal quality
with the samples TO be exhibited
The party proposing TO supply the articles will
| make invoice OF all the items embraced in the
above list, and ax the prices, in dollars and cents
| at which he or they viii furnish them under each
class separately. deliverable in New York, Tor If
the contractor prefers IT, about OF the guam
tity may be delivered in st. Louis, Missouri, free
| Of expense TO the Government,) on or before the
! l5th day Of May next, assuming the quantity OF
| each article specified in this advertisement and
| extending the cost, making 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
the conformity OF 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, If they Of INSULT
ccnt 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, the United States
shall be authorized purchase them OF others, and
TO charge any increase of price they may be com
PEELED TO pay therefor TO 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 suretics, the sufhciency 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 as afore-
said 10 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 arc not
made in the form and terms here prescribed
| IL Tor WEI propose to furnish for the service OF
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, Wis
! (Here insert the list of goods
Deliverable in the city of New York I4r st. LOUISE
on or before the - day OF - next; and in case OF
the acceptance Of bis proposals., the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, (or we) will exc.
cute contract according 10 this agreement, and