The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-04


CLASS No. 2.-Dry Goods.
| 500 yards scarlet srouds
500 do blue do
1000 do fancy list blue cloth
$50 do do green do
| 5000 do gray list blue do
! 1000 yards sared list blue cloth
$500 do scarlet do
| IT'S do green do
375 pounds worsted yarn. fold
| IS dozen cotton flag handkerchief
80 do do Madras do
so do black silk do
| so do cotton shawls
| % do Ga do
| 40 do A
| 80 do S.4 woollen 10
600 pounds linen thread
90 do sewing silk
800 pieces ribbons, assorted
| IS gross worsted gathering
| 80 pieces silk handkerchief
| 30, 900 yards calico
5000 do Merimac calico
| $500 do blue drilling
1000 do Georgia stripes
| 5000 do blue denims
| 1000 do cottonade
5000 do bed ticking
900 do Kentucky jeans
| 200 do satinetts
5000 do plaid lnsey
s, 500 do domestic shirtng, bleaehed
$4,000 DO do do unbleached
| 5000 do do sheeting, do
| 5000 do checks, stripes, and plaids
| 200 dozen woollen socks
| 500 yards hannels, assorted
| 1000 flannel shirts
300 calico shirts
500 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
CLASS No. 3.-Hmd.pare and Horticultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun flints
25 gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
100 dozen fish lines
l9, 900 needles
1875 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors do
gross run worms
1900 tin kettles
so nests japanned kettles, s in a nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and ~ inches n length
300 auge's in equal proportions of II. !, :, and
inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
q cross-cut saws, feet in length
% do do do do
800 hand saw files
100 cross cut saw files
100 log chains, assorted, y to IL feet
100 Whittemore cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chisels, !, /, and 2-inch
80 planes, fore and jack.
CLASS No. 4-.Ares
90 dozen axes, to weigh from a to 81 pounds
10 half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
IL 1" hatchets, to weigh J pounds
70 broadaxes
Glass No. 5-.North,cest Guns
500 northwest guns, two-thirds of which must
measure So inches in length of barrel, and
one third ~ inches in length of barrel.
To be delivered in New York or Philadelphia,
as may be required.
New samples of all the above articles selected
m enta in
manufacture, deposited in the Office of the
Com missioner of Indian Affairs which, with the
contracts of former years, are open for the inspec
ton of bidders.
The Department reserves the right to increase
diminish the quantity of any OF the articles
named, or substitute others in lieu thereof, to
wanted for presents or other purposes in the ad-
minisration Of the afairs of the Depar, nent, and
to award the contract to the party whose bid shall
be deemed most advantageous to the Indians and
ture, all other things being equal, will be prefer.
red; but as the samples of blankets and cloths are
OF foreign manufacture, it will be necessary, whe
domestic article of the kind is offered, that sam
pie OF 1t 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 atfix the
prices, in dollars and cents, at which he or they
will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
before the first day of May next, assuming a
basis of calculation the qua nifty Of each article
therein specified, extending the coat 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 Depar tmcnt, who
will be appointed for the purposes and il will be
CURED that the articles delivered under the
tracte shall conform strictly with the samples
hibied, and all contracts will contain clause au
thorizng the United States to purchase Of OTHERS
and charge any increase of price paid therefor to
the party failing to furnish such required by
the terms of his contract within five days after no
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 sureies, whose suite ieucy must be
certified by n Unhed States Judge or district 1t.
torney. Payment will be made after the contract
is completed and the delivery of the goods afore-
said to agent Of the Department, upon a dupIi.
cate invoice certified by him.
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will DC received that not
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
u Tor wei propose to furnish for the service of
prices affixed to them respectively, viz Here in
sert the list of goods.l Deliverable in the city of
New York on or before the first day of May nexJ
and in Of the acceptance of this proposal
the quantity being prescribed by the Department,
l. Tor wei will execute a contract according to
this agreement, and give satisfactory securty to
the Department within ten days after the rccep-
ton of this bid; and, in of failure to enter
into such contract and give such security, Tor
wei will pay to the United States the difference
between the sum hidden by me Tor usl and the
sum which the Unitea States may be obliged to
pay for the articles"
Each and every bid must also be accompanied
by guarantee in the following form, to be signed
by one more responsible persons, whose suffi-
cheney must Ge certified by some one who Ia known
to the Department either personally or by his
official position:
al Tor vel hereby guarantee that -, the above
bidder, will comply with the terms of the adver-
tisenent for Proposals for Indian Goods" dated
October g. 1852, If the contract should be awarded
to him, and enter into bond for the execution OF
the same within the time prescribed"
[SEAL.1
tSEAL.J
l.. LEA,
Commissioner OF Indian Affairs.
Oct -3tiwtN W s [Integencer and Union.l
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