The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-15

5000 do do sheeting, do
5000 do checks, stripes, and plaids
300 dozen woollen socks
1900 yards hannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
900 calico do
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
CLASS No. 3.-Hard,care and agricultural
Implements
1850 pounds brass kettles
2I6 butcher knives
%, 900 gun fiint5
25 gross squaw avis
1000 fish hooks
25 dozen fish lines
5000 needles
100 dozen combs, assorted
10 do scissors, do
10 gross gun worms
090 tin kettles
rs nests iapanned kettles, s in a nest
200 drawing knives and II inches in length
TOO augers, in equal proportions of ], Il, and
inch
$50 pairs names
$50 do trace chains
1000 wedding hoes
175 hand saws
40 cross-cut saws, feet in length
40 do do do do
100 hand-saw files
100 cross cut saw files
40 log chains, assorted, 9 to II feet
GOO Whttemore 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 s. pounds
80 do half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
I'll do hatchets, to weigh pounds
% broad axes.
CLASS No. 5.-.Ncrth,CeSt Guns.
700 northwest guns, two-thirds of which must
measure 36 inches in length of barrel, and
one third ~ 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, to require,
similar prices such goods may be wanted, for
presents 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 preterred; but the
samples of blankets and cloths are OF foreign manu-
facture, it will be necessary, when domestic
ticc of the kind is offered that sample of it should
accompany the bid.
The party proposing to furnish the articles in
any one or more of the foregoing classes, will
make invoice Of all heitems therein, and affix
the prices in dollars and cents at which he or they
will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
before the LIST day OF May next, assuming, as 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
New York, by an agent of the Department, who
will be appointed for the purpose, and it will be
qured that the articles delivered under the
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples OK
hibted, and all contracts will contain a clause
authorizing the United States to 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 i've days after no
ticc 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 or more sureties, whose suthcicncy must be
certified by United States judge or district ator
ney. Payment will be made after the contract is
completed, and the delivery of the goods as aiore
said to agent Of the Department, upon duph-
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 we) propose to furnish for the service of
the Indian Department the following goods, at
the prices all xed TO them respectively, viz Here
! insert the list of goods / Deliverable in the
| city of New York 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 0e) Will execute a
| contract according to this agreement, and give
| satisfactory security to the ID plrtinent 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 me Cor us) and the sum which the United
States may be obliged to pay for the same arti-
cles."
Each and every bid mustalso be accompanied with
a guaranty in the following form, to be signed by
one or more responsible persons, whose suffciency
must be certified by some one who is known to the
Department, either personally or by his official
position
al (or we) 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
cunon of the same within the time prescribed"
II. 81
IL. 81
L. LEA,
| Comrnfas;opor If Indian Anafra