The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-30

measure 81 by &c. and weigh 6 pounds.
CLASS No. 2.-Dry Goods.
500 yards scarlet strouds
1000 do fancy list blue cloth
1879 1879 do do DO s sTses' DO do
5000 do gray list blue do
1000 yards sared list blue cloth
$500 do scarlet do
| ITS do green do
375 pounds worstcd yarn, fold
65 dozen cotton flag handkerchiefs
50 do do Madras do
| 60 do black silk do
so do cotton shawls
25 do Cd do
| 40 do Al
| 80 do S.4 woollen 10
600 pounds linen thread
| 20 do sewing silk
| 800 pieces ribbons, assorted
| IS gross worsted gathering
| 33 pieces silk handkerchiefs
| $4,000 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
| 1000 do satinetts
| 5000 do plaid linsey
$500 do domestic shirting. bIeached
| l9,O00 do do do unbleached
5000 do do sheetng, do
| 5,OOO DO checks stripes, and plaids
200 dozen woollen socks
| 800 yards hannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
800 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
CLASS No. 3.-Hard,care and Agricultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
"a dozen butcher knives
10000 gun fints
| % gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
| 100 dozen fish lines
| $4,000 needles
l25 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors DO
gross gun worms
| 300 tin kettles
so meets japsnned kettles, 8 in n nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and II inches in length
300 augc's in equal proportions of II, |, z, and
! inch
l15 pairs names
| 1877 pairs trace chains
| $50 wedding hoes
q cross-out saws, 7 feet in length
% do do do do
300 hand-saw files
100 cross cut saw files
100 log chains, assorted, y to IL feet
100 Whittemorc cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chisels, !, l, and 2-inch
SO planes, fore and jack.
Glass No. 4-.Ares.
50 dozen axes, to weigh from q to 81 pounds
10 half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
IL /" hatchets, to weigh u pounds
70 broadaxes.
Glass No. 5-yNorthyest Guns.
800 northwest guns, twot 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, selec ted
with reference to the most recent improvements in
manufacture, deposited in the Office of the
Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, which, with the
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 thu reof, to
require at similar prices such goods as may be
wanted for presents other purposes in the ad-
minisration of the affairs Of the Department, and
TO award the contract to the party whosc 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 as the samples of blankets and cloths are
OF foreign manufacture, it will be necessary, when
domestic article Of the kind ia offered, that am
pie OF 1t should accompany the bid.
The party proposing to furnish the articles in
any one or 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 as n
basis OF calculation the qua nifty Of each article as
tnereln speClHeu, 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 con
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples cx-
hibited, and all contracts will contain clause
thorizing 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 or more sureties, whose sufficiency 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 afore
said to agent OF the Department, upon a dupli-
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:
81 or wei propose to furn ish for the service of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
prices affixed to them respectively, viz: Here
sert the list of-goods. Deliverable in the city of
New York on'or before the first day Of May next;
and, in case Of the acceptance of this proposal,
the quantity being prescribed by the Department,
| for wei will 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 of failure to enter
| into such contract and give such security, for
wei will pay to the United States the difference
between the sum hidden by me Tor usl and the
| sum which the United States may be obliged to
pay for the same articles"
Each and every bid must also be accompanied
by guarantee in the following form, to be signed
by one or more responsible persone, whose sufi.
cheney must be certified by some one who is known
to the Department either personally or by his
official position:
81 for wei hereby guarantee that -, the above
bidder, will comply with the terms of the adver-
tisement for proposals for Indian Goods, >" dated
October s. 1852, if the contract should be awarded
to him, and enter into bond for the execution of
the same within the time prescribed"
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Oct 6-3tiwtNJv [Intellgencer and Unionl
TNHE WEEK-Comprising the last day of the
Il week, the fret day Of the week, the week
completed BY the author of 1.-THE Command.
inent with Promise" This Is an excellent volume
in which illustrated the advantage of a boly
chserxancc Of SahLaII ".