The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-18

5000 do blue denims
1900 do cottonade
1850 do bed ticking
900 do Kentucky jeans
700 do satinetts
1900 do plaid linsey
1000 do domestic shifting, detached
$4,000 60 do do unbleached
5000 do do sheeting, do
5000 do checks, stripes, and plaids
800 dozen woolen socks
800 yards flannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
900 calico do
900 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
Glass No. 3.-Hardcme and agricultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
276 butcher knives
%, 900 gun tiints
25 gross squaw avis
| 1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
| 25, 900 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, do
10 gross gun worms
! 1000 tin kettles
76 nests iapanned kettles, s in nest
200 drawing knves-l0 and IL inches in length
700 augers, in equal proportions OF J, II, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 do trace chains
1000 wedding hoes
IT'S hand
40 oss-cut saws. 7 feet in length
40 do do do do
| 100 hand saw files
100 cross-cut saw files
40 log chains assorted, 9 to IL feet
600 Whittemore cards, No. 10
600 quarters socket chisels, }, , and inch
| 80 planes, fore and jack
Glass No. 4.-.Ares.
10 dozen axes to weigh from A. to 81 pounds
| SO do half. axes, to weigh 81 pounds
| Al do hatchets, to weigh Il pounds
25 broad axes.
| Glass No. 5.-.North,cest Guns.
| 700 northwest guns, two-thrds of which must
measure SO inches in length of barrel, and
one-third AZ inches in length of barrel, to
| be delivered in New York or Philadelphia
may be required.
| New samples of all the above articles selected
with reference to the most recent improvements in
| manufacture, are deposited in the office of the
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs, which, with the
contracts OF former years, open for the inspec
| ton of bidders.
The Department reserves the right to increase or
| diminish the quantity of any of the articles named
or substitute others in lieu thereof, or to require at
similar prices, such goods may be wanted, for
| presents or other purposes in the administration
of the affairs of the Department, and to award the
| contract to the party whose bid shall be deemed
most advantageous to the Indians and the Govern
| ment. Goods Of American manufacture, all other
| things being equal, will be preferred; but the
samples Of blankets and cloths arc of foreign manu-
/
tce of the kind is offered that sample of should
| accompany the bid.
The party proposing to furnish the articles, in
any one more of the foregoing classes, will
make an invoice of all the items therein, and afiix
| the prices in dollars and cents at which he they
| will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
before the lst day of May next, assuming, ba-
sis of calculation, the quantity OF each article
therein specified, extending the cost, and showing
the aggregate amount of the whole invoice consti-
tuting the bid. The goods will be inspected in
| af D.-~-
will be appointed for the purpose, and it will be
quired that the articles delivered under the con-
| tracts shall conform strictly with the samples ex-
| hbited, and all contracts will contain a clause
authorizing the United States purchase of others,
and charge any increase of price paid therefor, to
the party falling to furnish such as required by
the terms of his contract within five days after
tice of rejection shall be given him by said agent
Bonds will be required in the amount of the bids
for the faithful performance of the contracts, with
two more sureties, whose efficiency must be
certified by United States judge or district attor
| ney. Payment will be made after the contract is
| completed and the delivery of the goods afore-
| said to an agent of the Department, upon dupli
cate invoice certified by him.
! The bids will be submitted with the following
! heading, and none will be received that are not
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
| al Cor WEI 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 Deliverable in the
city of New York on or before the LIST day of
May next; and, In case OF the acceptance OF
this proposal, the quantity being prescribed
! by the Department, ! Cor WEI will execute a
contract according to this agreement, and give
satisfactory security to the Department within
ten days after the reception of this bid; and, in
case of failure to enter into such contract and
give such security, Tor we) will pay to the Uni
ted States the difference between the sum hidden
by INC (or us) and the which the United
States may be obliged to pay for the arti-
| cles"
Eachand every bid must also be accompanied with
guaranty in the following form, TO be signed by
one more responsible persons, whose suffcioncy
must be certified by some who is known to the
Department, either personally or by his official
! position
81 (or wc) hereby guarantee that --, the
above bidder, will comply with the terms of the
| advertisement for Proposals for Indian Goods
dated October 10, 1851, If the contract should be
awarded to him, and enter into bond for the exc
cution Of the same within tue time prescribed"
II. 81
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l.. LEA,
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs.
Oct l2-3tawtNovlO Union and Inte.l
GAM sLICK's NEW BooK.-Rule and Mis-
- rule of the English in America by Sam
Slick
Forest Life and Forest Trees, by John S.