The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-28

5000 do Georgia stripes
1000 do blue denims
600 do cottonade
1900 do bed-tcking
900 do Kentucky leans
500 do satinetts
1000 do plaid linsey
1000 do domestic shirting, bleached
$1,000 do domestic shrting, unbleached
$4,000 do domestic sheeting, unbleached
5000 do domestic checks, stripes, and plaids
400 dozen woolien socks
800 yards flannels, assorted
600 flannel shirts
100 calico shirts
$50 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
Class No. 4.-HARDwARE.
1850 pounds brass kettles
276 dozen butcher knives
% 900 gun flints
% gross squaw avis
7 900 fish hooks
% dozen fish lines
$4,000 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.-AGRIcULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.
300 drawing knives IL inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions of }, /, z, and
inch
! 80 pairs names
$50 pairs trace chains
1900 wedding hoes
175 hand saws
40 cross cut saws, 7 feet in length
40 cross-cut saws, 6 feet in length
100 hand saw files
100 cross cut saw files
40 log chains, to weigh 25 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 5, pounds
80 do half axes, TO weigh 81 pounds
a do hatchets, to weigh pounds
25 broad axcs
Class No. 7.-NoRrHwEsT Guns.
$50 northwest guns two thirds Of which must mea-
sure 80 inches in length Of barrel and one
third ~ inches in length Of barrel, 10 be de-
lvered 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 IL may be proper 10 remark that those Of hard
ware, agricultural implements, and northwest guns
arc entirely new and Of better quality than the
ticles heretofore furnished under former contracts
The proposals may be divided into seven parts,
viz
Ist Blankets.
I'd. Dry goods.
80. Domestic goods
4th. Hardware.
5th. Agricultural implements.
9th. Axes.
eth. Northwest guns
The lowest competent responsible bidder will re-
ccivc the whole any part of the contract accord
ing 10 the above scale the Department roservng 20
itself the right 10 determine whether the bidder is
competent and responsible not.
The whole amount in money 20 be applied 10 the
purchase Of goods will be about 300 900, but the
Department reserves the right 10 increase or d.
minish the quantity Of any Of the articles named,
or substitute others In lieu thereof 10 require, at
similar prices, such goods AZ 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 arc Of foreign manufacture, IL will be
sary, when domestic article is bid for, that
pie Of u should accompany the bid, TO enable the
Department 70 decide whether IL s 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 let, and alliK the prices, in dollars and cents
AZ which he or they will furnish them under each
class separately, deliverable in New York, (or If
uiy may be delivered in st. Louis, Missouri, free
Of expense 10 the Governmcnt,) on or before the
10th day Of May next, assuming the quantity Of
each article ne specified in this advertisement, aud
extending the cost, making an aggregate Of the
whole invoice constituting the bid. The goods will
be inspected IN New York (snd in ST. Louis. any
portion Of them should be delivered therc) by an
agent of the United States, who will be appointed
by the Department for the purpose and 90 ascertain
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 " the articlcsarc not furnished
within the time prescribed, II they of INSULT
Gent quality IN the opinion Of the agent aforesaid,
and II, 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 20 the contractor, who shall
pay the said difference 20 the United States.
Bonds will be required in the amount OF the bids,
with two good surotios, tho sufiioency 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
is completed and the delivery Of the goods aiore
said 20 agent Of the Department, upon n dupli-
cate invoice certified by him.
Communications 20 be marked Proposals for
Indian goods"
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that are not
made in tho form and terms here prescribed:
~ Cor wc) propose 10 furnish Tor the service Of
The Indian Department the following roods at the
prices affixed 10 them respectively, viz.
(IIerc insert the let Of goods
in the city Of New York ~ St LOUSY
on before tho - day Of -- next: and in case Of
the acceptance Of he proposals. the quantity being
prescribed by the Department, (or we) will exc
cute contract according 10 this agreement, and