The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-02

$500 do blue drilling
5000 do Georgia stripes
1900 do blue denims
1000 do cottonade
1890 do bed ticking
1000 do Kentucky jeans
500 do satinetts
1000 do plaid linsey
1000 do domestic shirting, bleached
$1,000 do domestic shirting, unbleached
$4,000 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1880 yards fiannels, assorted
800 flannel shirts
100 calico shirts
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
Glass No. 4.-HARDwAIE.
1850 pounds brass kettles
go dozen butcher knives =.
% 900 gun fiints
% gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
81, 900 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
1000 tin kettles
76 nests, japanned kettles, 8 in nest
Class No 5.-AGRIcULrURAL IMPLEMENTS.
200 drawing knives - inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of !, l, 2, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
1900 wedding hoes
lis hand saws
40 cut saws, feet in length
40 cross-cut saws feet in length
100 hand files
100 cross cut saw files
40 log chains, to weigh % pounds each
600 Whittemore cards, No. 10
600 quarters socket chisels
80 planes, fore and jack
Class No. 6.-AxEs.
70 dozen axes, to weigh from a. TO 81 pounds
SO do half axes, 10 weigh 81 pounds
al do hatchets, to weigh i pounds
Is broad axes
Glass No. 7.-NoRTHwEsT GUNS.
$50 northwest guns, two thirds Of which must inca
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 arc deposited in
the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs :
and II may be proper 10 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 seven parts,
viz:
1st Blankets
I'd. Dry goods.
Sd. Domestic goods.
4th. Hardware.
9Th. Agricultural implements.
9th. Axes.
It'll. Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
coive the whole any part of the contract accord
ing TO the above scale, the Department rcservng to
itself the right to determine whether the bidder il
competent and responsible or not.
The whole amount in money 20 be applied to the
purchase OF goods will be about 500 900, but the
Department reserves the right TO increase or di-
minish the quantity Of any of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof or to REQUIRE at
ma le cd 4,
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 as all the samples OF blankets and
cloths of foreign manufacture, il will be neces-
sary when domestic article ia bid for, that a sam
pie of 1t should accompany the bid, TO 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 ax the prices, in dollars and cents
at which he or they will furnish them under each
class separately, deliverable in New York Tor If
the contractor prefers it, about half of the guam
tfty may be delivered in St. Louis, Missouri free
of expense 10 the Government,) before the
15th 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 tbere) by am
agent Of the United States, who will be appont ted
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
cent quality in the opinion of the agent aforesaid.
and If, 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 TO 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 tho United States
Bonds will be required in the amount OF the bids
with two good sureties, the suffciency of whom 10
be certified by n 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 afore-
seid TO agent of the Department, upon dupli- |
.ate invoice certified by him.
Communications to be marked Proposals for |
indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following |
reading, and none will be received that are not |
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 Tor we) propose to furnish for the service of
he Indian Department the following goods, Mt the /
,rices affixed to them respectively, viz
(Hcre insert the list of goods
in the city of New York er St. Jouis)
he acceptance Of his proposals, the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, (or wc) will exc
ute contract according 10 this agreement, and