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


sure 60 by -. and weigh pounds
300 pairs 81 point Gentinella blue blankets, TO
measure 81 by Sc, and weigh pounds.
Class No. 2.-Dry Goods,
500 yards scarlet strquds
500 do blue do
1000 do fancy list blue cloth
$50 do do green do .
5000 do gray list blue do
1000 yards sered list blue cloth
$500 do scarlet do
ITS do green do ....
s75 pounds worsted yarn } fold
65 dozen cotton flag handkerchieis .....
50 do do Madras do
60 do black silk do
50 do cotton shawls
40 do "a
80 do 81 woollen 10
600 pounds linen thread
30 do sewing elk
800 pieces ribbons, assorted
65 gross woIsed gathering
80 pieces silk handkerchief
$4,000 yards calico I'D
10 900 do Mermac calico ..
$500 do blue drilling
1000 do Georgia stripes ..
5000 do blue denims
1000 do cottonade
5000 do bed ticking
900 do Kentucky jeans
1000 do satne,ts
5000 do plaid linsey
$500 do domestic shirting, bIeachcd
$4,000 do do do unbleached
5000 do do sheeting, do
5000 do checks, stripes, and paids
200 dozen woollen socks
500 yards 1annels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
300 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
Glass No. 3.-Hard,care and Agricultural
Inll lements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun flints
% gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
100 dozen Ish lines
i9, 600 needles
l25 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors do
gross run worms
1900 tin kettles
so nests japanned kettles, in a nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and u inches in length
800 auge in equal proportions Of | J, l, I, and
} inch
ll5 pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
81 2! o 70 At saws, feet in length
300 hand. saw files
100 CROSS cut saw files
l60 log chains, assorted. y to - feet
100 Whitemore cards, To. 10
500 quarters socket chisels, !, |, and 2-inch
SO planes, fore and jack.
Glass No. 4-.4res.
50 dozen axes, TO weigh from a. to 81 pounds
Is =" half axes to weigh 81 pounds
10 " hatchets, to weigh pounds
10 broadaxes.
CLASS No. 5-.North,cest Guns.
800 northwest guns, two-thirds of which must
measure SO inches in length of barrel, and
nne-th.rd ~ 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
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, substitute others in lieu thereof, or to
require at similar prices such goods may be
wantet for presents or other purposes in the ad-
mins'raton of the aflIr of thr Department, and
to award the contract TO the party whose bid shalt
be deemed most adv antag cDus To the Indians and
/ the Government. Goods OF American nanufac-
ture, all other things heing equal, will be prefer
red; put as the samples of blankets and cloths are
OF foreign manufacture il viii! be nee essary, when
don s;ic article OF the kind ID off.red that a SAM
pie "I ii should accompany the bid ..-
! The party proposing to furnish the articles in
any one or more OF the foregoing classes will make
al invoice OF all the items therein, and afix the
prices, in dollars and cent?, Al which he or they
| will furnish them, deliverable in New York or
I
h"ei- 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 agent of the Depa rtmeut, who
will be appointed for the purpose; and il will be
| quired that the articles delivered under the con.
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples ex
hiitcd, and all contracts will contain clause au
boriZing the United States 10 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
tice Of rejection shall bn given him by said agent.
Bonds will be required in the amount of the bids
Tor the faithful performance OF the contracts with
| two or more surcties whose sufficiepcy must be
certified by q Unftcd States Judge District At
torney. Payment will be made after the contract
ia completed and the delivery Of The goods as aore-
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:
! al for wei propose TO furnish for the service Of
| the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz: Here in
scU the list of goods Deliverable in the city Of
| New York NOR before the first day of May next
and, in case Of the acceptance Of this proposal
! the quantity being prescribed by the Department,
| ! TOR vel vii! execute contract according to
! this agreement and give satisfactory security to
the Department within ten days after the recep-
ton of this bid; and, in Gaze OF failure TO enter
into sncb contract and give such security, Tor
wei will pay to the United States the difference
between tire sum hidden by me Tor usl and the
sum which the United States may b. Obliged to
pay for the Same articles"
Each and every bid Inust also be accompanied
! By Fuarant in the following for m to be signed
by one or more responsible persnns, whose suth
| cheney must be certified by some one who 10 known
! TO the Department either personally by HE
| "iicial postiOn'
| IL Tor vel hereby guarantee that -, the above
! bidder, will comply with the terms Of the adver
| tiscmcnt 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 same within the time prescribcd'
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| Commissioner OF Indian Affairs.
| OF -3:t@tN " [lntelligencer and Union
| THE WEEK-Comprising the last day Of the
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