The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-28

do beat hand made super royal paper
RI plain, per Team
do best hand made royal paper, plain,
do best handmade, demi paper, plain,
do best hand-m made medium paper, plain.
per ream
do best hand made, double cap paper,
plain, per ream
10 do blottng paper, royal, per ream
g., 900 pocket envelopes, of white yellow paper
of the following sizes, viz: 81 by 80 inches,
20, 900 pocket envelopes letter size, per thousand
bushels black sand esfea u
600 cards steel pens. Department to have the
liberty of selecting from all the different
kinds manufactured, foreign domestic,
in the market, per card
10 gross Damascus pens in boxes, with one
dozen holders to each gross, per gross
l3o gross other steel pens in boxes, with one
dozen holders TO each gross. Department
to have the liberty of selecting from all
the different kinds manufactured, foreign
or domestic, in the market, per gross
IL dozen gold pens, Browns or equal, with sill.
cases, per dozen
1900 200 opaque quls' No &c. 50, per thousand
$50 dozen Monroc's, or other manufacture black
lead pencils, per dozen
% do Cohen's red lead pencils. per dozen
Is do 9-inch ivory folders, do
1853 do red tape, (iincn,) assorted sizes. per
dozen
% do silk taste, assorted colors and widths.
in hanks, per dozen
do cocoa sand boxes, per dozen
do wafer stands or boxes, do
% do bottles Maynard & Noyes's, or equal
black ink, per quart bottle
80 do bottles Arnold's or equal red ink, per
half-pint bottle
$50 pounds red waters, heat, per pound
50 do red pea waters, best. per pound
70 do do bsst ss aev sealing wax DO DO
do prepared lnda-rubber do
dozen pump China inkstands, per dozen
do letter stamps, ivory handles, per dozen
80 do penknives, Rodgers 4 Sons, blades,
buck handles, genuine, per dozen
do erascrs, Rodgers & Sons, blade, ivo-
do besI n nsnsr :b genuine Sneh blade.
do best paper shenrs, s-inch blades, per
do best scissors, 4.inch blade, per dozen
100 pounds linen twine, assorted sizes, per pound
$50 do cotton do do do
Each proposal must be signed by the individual
or firm making it, and must specify price, and
bt price for each and every description of work
and article required. Should any articles be re-
quired which are not enumerated, they are to be
furnished at the lowest market prices, if tho De-
partment shall see fit to order them from the
tractor having the contract for similar articles and
if the contractor and the Department do not agree,
then the Department may have the article furnished
at price lower than that demanded by the con-
tractor. Blank forms for proposals will be fur
nished at the Department to persons applying for
them and without uniformity therein the De.
partment would find it difficult to make decision,
none will be taken into confederation unless SUBJ
stantially agreeing Herewith
The Department reserves to itself the right of or
derng greater or less quantity of each, and every
article description of work contracted for az the
public service may require.
Tho head of the Department will in all cases de-
eide whether the terms of the contract have been
complied with, and the power to nnnul the
contract upon any failure to comply in a reasona-
BILE time.
Bonds, with approved security, are to be given
by the person persons contracting; and, in case
of failure to supply the articles, the contractor and
his surees shall Be liable for the forfeiture speci-
fed in such bond as liquidated damages.
The contract will be awarded to the lowest and best
bidder for each of the three classes above cnume-
rated the best bid to be determined after careful
examination for the purpose of ascertaning which
bid will, in its practical results, be most advantage
GUS to the Department.
The Department to itself the right to
cct any bid where it is apparent that part Of the
articles work is bid for at very low and part at
very high rates, without proper regard to the cost
OF each, for the purpose of affecting the aggregate
of the bids under the estimate contained in the adj
vertisement. N. X. HALL,
April 9--lawtd Postmaster General.