Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-10-17

1905 yards scarlet strouds
500 do blue strouds
1880 do fancy list cloth, blue
76O do fancy lis, cloth, scarlet
$50 do fancy list cloth, green
1000 do gray list cloth, blue
1900 do saved list cloth, blue
1850 do saved list cloth, scarlet
500 do saved list cloth, green
226 pounds worsted yarn, fold
100 dozen cotton flag handkerchiefs
go do cotton Madras handkerchiefs
ITS do black silk handkerchief
80 do ga cotton shaws
80 do Ga cotton shawls
65 do "A cotton shawls
10 do s-4 woollen shawls
43o pounds linen thread
so do sewing silk
700 pieces ribbon, assorted
$50 gross worstad gathering
aipieces silk handherchie bark and tandanna.
Class No. 3.-DoMEsrlc GooDs.
IS, 900 yards domestic calico
10000 do Merrimac calico
$500 do blue drilling
5000 do Georgia stripes
1000 do blue denims
1900 do cottonade
1890 do bed ticking
1000 do Kentucky jeans
500 do satinetts
1000 do plaid linSey
1000 do domestic shifting, bleached
5000 do domestic shifting, unb)esched
$4,000 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
1900 yard. hannels. assorted
$500 flannel shirts
700 calico shirts
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
Class No. 4.--HARpwARE.
1850 pounds brass kettles
276 dozen butcher knives
$4,000 gun iints
25 gross sauaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
$4,000 needles
100 dog combs, assorted
10 aoz scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
1000 tin kettles
7s nests japanned kettles. s in a nest
Class No. 5.-AGRIcULTURAL lMPLE-
MENTs.
200 drawing knives, IL inches in length
TOO augurs, in equal proportions Of i-2, lisa,
and l-2 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 cIoss.cut saw files
40 log chains, to weigh IS pounds each
600 Whi.temore cards. No. 10.
800 quarters socket chisels
80 planes, fore and jack
Class No. 6.-AxEs.
10 dozen axes, to weigh from ala to Ia pounds.
50 do half axes, to weigh l-2 pounds
Al do hatchets, to weigh l l-2 pounds
25 broad axes
Class No. 7.-NoRTHwEsT GUNS.
$50 northwest guns, two-thirds ofwhich must meas
ure Sc inches in length Of barrel, and one
third AZ in6hes In length of barrel. TO be de-
ivered 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 it may be proper to remark that those of hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
entirely new, and of better quality than the
clss heretofore furnished under former contracts.
The proposals may be divided into seven parts,
viz:
list. 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
receive the whole or any part of the contract ac-
cording to the above SCALE the Department reserv-
ing to itself the right to determine the bid
der is competent and responsible or not.
The whole amount in money 10 BE applied to the
purchase of goods will be about 500 900, but the
Department reserves the right to increase or di-
minsh the quantity of any of the articles named, or
substitute others in lieu thereof, or to require, at
similar prices, such goods as may be wanted for
presents other purposes, in the admin stration
of the affairs of the Department. Goods of Amer
lean nufacture, all other things being equal will
be preferred; but all the samples OF blankets and
cloths offoreign manufacture, 1t will be neces
sary, when dome site article is bid for, that
pie of it should accompany the bid, to enable the
Department to decide whether it is OF equal quail
~ 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 aix the prices, dollars and cents,
at which he or they will furnish them under each
class separately, deliverable in New York, (or if
the contractor prefers 1t, about one-haf of the
quantity may be delivered in st Louis, Missouri,
free of expense to the Governmento on OF 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 (ana in st Loais, if any
portion of them should be delivered there) by an
agent of the United States, who ill be appointed
by the Department for the purpose, and to ascer-
tain 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, or il
they of ms efficient quality in the opinion of the
agent afore said, and if within five days after notice
Of such insufficiency the party shall not furnish
others in lieu thereof OF the required quality, the
United States shall be authorized TO purchase them
Of nthers and to charge any increase price they
may he compelled to pay therefor 70 the contrac-
tor who shall pay the said difference to the Unit
cd States.
Bonds will be required in the amount Of the bids,
with two good sureties, the sufs cheney OF whom
to be certified by United States Judge 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 a dupli-
cate invoice certified BY him.
Communications 70 be marked ssProposals for
Indian goods.''
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading. and none will be received that not
made in the form and terms here prescribed.
81 (or 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.)