The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-14

s, 500 do domestic shirtng, bIeached
1900 do do do unbleached
5000 5000 do do sheeting, do
200 dozen woollen socks
/ 500 yards fannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
800 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton e.
CLASS No. 3.-HardDare and .Agric cultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun fiints
IS gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
100 dozen fish lines
l9, 900 needles
l25 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors do
groes gun worms
800 tin kettles
50 nests japanhed kettles, s in q nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and ~ inches in length
300 augers in equal proportions Of u. /, Z, and
inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
81 cross-cut saws, 7 feet in length
25 do do do d.
300 hand. saw files
100 cross cut saw fll1
l60 log chains, assorted, y to II feet
100 Whitemore cards, No. 10
500 quarters SOC ket chses, J, J., and pinch
90 planes, fore and jack.
CLASS No. 4-.Ares.
50 dozen axes, to weigh from a to 81 pounds
Is half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
Is " hatchets, to weigh ! pounds
10 broadaxes.
Glass No. 5-.Norihyest Guns.
800 northwest guns, two-thirds of which must
measure SO inches in length of barrel, and
hiFd1 chao in, prth Of har
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, deposited in the Office Of the
Commissioner 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
or diminish the quantity of any OF the articles
named, or substitute others in lieu thereof, or to
require at similar prices such goods as may be
wanted for presents or other purposes in the adj
minstraton 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 Government. Goods of American manufac-
ture. all other things being equal, will be prefer
red; but the samples of blankets and cloths
of foreign manufacture, it will be necessary, when
domestic article OF the kind is offered, that sam
pie Of it should accompany the bid.
The party proposing to furnish the articles in
any one or more of the for going classes will make
an invoice of all the items therein, and atfix the
prices, in dollars and cents, at which he they
will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
before the fret day of May next, assuming as
basis Of calculation the quantity OF each article as
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 sn agent of the Department, who
will be appointed for the purposes and 1t will be
quired that the artIces delivered under the con-
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples
hibited, and all contracts will contain clause au
thorzing 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
tce 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 sufflciency must be
certified by United States Judge or District At
torney. Payment will be made after the contract
is completed and the delivery of the goods as 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 not
made in the form and terms here prescribed:
81 Tor wei propose to furnish for the service Of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz: Here in
sert the list of goods. Deliverable in the city of
New York onbo or before the first day of May next;
and, in case cfsthe acceptance OF this proposal,
the quantity being prescribed by the Department,
for wei vii! execute a contract according to
this agreement, and give satisfactory security to
the Department within ten days after the recep-
ton of this bid; and, in case Of failure enter
into such contract and give such security, / Tor
wei will pay to the United States the difference
between the sum hidden by me for usl and the
sum which the United States may be obliged to
pay for the same artcles.''
Each and every bid must also be accompanied
by guarantee in the following form, to be signed
by responsible persons, whose suifi
cheney must be certified by some one who ia known
to the Department either personally by his
official position:
al for wei hereby guarantee that -, the above
bidder, will comply with the terms Of the adver.
tisement for proposals for Indian Goods" dated
October 5, 1852, If the contract should be awarded
to him, and enter into bond for the execution Of
the came within the time prescribed"
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Commissioner OF Indian Affairs.
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