The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-17

500 do cottonade
1900 do bed ticking
900 do kentucky jeans
500 do satnetts
1000 do plaid linsey
1000 do domestic shirting, bleached
5000 do domestic shirting, unbleached
$4,000 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes and plaids
400 dozen woollen socks
l,500 yards fiannels, 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
25 gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
25 900 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, assorted
10 gross gun worms
900 tin kettles
70 nests, japanned kettles, 8 in nest
Class No. 5.-AGRIcuLTURAL IMPLEMENTS
900 drawing knives II inches in length
700 augers in equal proportions of /, !, Z, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
1900 wedding hoes
lis hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 cross cut saws, 6 feet in length
100 hand-saw files
100 cross cut files
40 log chains, to weigh IS pounds each
600 Whittemore cards, No. 10
600 quarters socket chisels
80 planes, fore and jack
Class No. 6.-AxEs.
10 dozen axes, to weigh from ~ 70 s! pounds
So do half axes, 10 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 mea-
sure 80 inches in length Of barrel, and one
third AZ inches in length Of barrel, to be de-
hvered 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 TO remark that those Of hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
are entirely new, and of better quality than the
tclcs 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.
eth. Northwest guns.
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ceve the whole or any part Of the contract accord
ing TO the above scale, the Department rescrving 10
itsef the right 10 determine whether the bidder IL
competent and responsible or not
The whole amount In money 60 be applied 20 the
purchase of goods will be about 80 900, but the
Department reserves the right TO increase or di.
minish the quantity of any Of the articles named,
substitute others in lieu thereof 70 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
IL I..e. u
cloths of foreign manufacture, II will be ncces-
sary, when domestic article is bid for, that
pie Of IL should accompany the bid, TO enable the
Department 20 decide whether IL Is 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 ar the prices in dollars and cents,
at which he or they will furnish them under each
class separately, deliverable in New York, Tor IL
the contractor prefers IT, about half of the guam
tity may be delivered in St Louis, Missouri, free
OF expense 10 the Government,) on or before the
9th 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
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
within the time prescribed, or il 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 TO purchase them OF others, and
TO charge any increase of price they may be com
PEELED 10 pay therefor TO the contractor, who shall
pay the said difference 10 the United States.
Bonds will be required in the amount Of the bids,
with two good sureties the sufiiciency 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
IL completed and the delivery of the goods afore
said TO an agent Of the Department, upon dupH-
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 not
made in 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 afii1 ed TO them respectively, via;
(Here insert the list Of goods
Deliverable in the city Of New York ~ St LOUSY
on or before the = day of - next; and in Of
the acceptance Of his proposals, the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, Tor WEI viii exc
cute a contract according to this agreement, and