The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-20

CLASS No. 2.-Dry Goods.
| 500 yards scarlet strouds
! 500 do blue do
| 1000 do fancy list blue cloth
i75 do DO scarlet 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, 3 fold
| Is dozen cotton flag handkerchief
60 do do black ao silk A0'A' do do
| so do cotton shawls
| IS do "a do
| 80 do S.4 woolen DO
600 pounds linen thread
20 do sewing silk
| 800 pieces ribbons assorted
| 65 gross worsted gathering
| 33 pieces silk handkerchief
| $4,000 yards calico
| is 900 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 satinelts
| 5000 do plaid lnsey
$500 do domestic shrting. bIesehed
1900 do do do unbleached
5000 do checks. stripes, and plaids
200 dozen woolen socks
500 yards hannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
800 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spoel cotton.
Glass No. 3.-Hard,care and Agricultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun flints
% gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
100 dozen fish lines
Is, 900 needles
1875 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors do
7 gross gun worms
so nests japanned kettles, 8 in a nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and IL inches in length
300 auge's in equal proportions Of u, /, 7, and
J inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
q cross-cut saws, feet in length
rs do do do do
300 hand saw files
100 cross cut saw fles
100 log chains, assorted, to II feet
100 Whitemore cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chisels, J, !, and 2-inch
so planes, fore and jack.
CLASS No. 4-.4res
IS dozen axes, to weigh from d to 81 pounds
Is half axes, to weigh b pounds
- hatchets, to weigh ! pounds
70 broadaIes.
CLASS No. 5-yNorth,cest Guns.
500 northwest guns, two-thirds of which must
measure SO inches in length Of barrel, and
one third az inches in length Of barrel.
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
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
or dmnish the quantity of any Of the articles
named or substitute others in lieu thereof, or to
require at similar prices such goods may be
wanted tor presents or other purposes in the adj
minstration 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-
turc all other things being equal, will be prefer
red; but as the samples of banke and cloths
OF foreign manufacture, it will be necessary when
domestic article OF the kind is offered, that cam
pie Of il 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 affix the
prices, in dollars and cents, at which he they
will furnish them deliverable in New York on or
before the first day of May next. assuming a
basis Of calcu aon 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 an agent Of the Department, who
quired that the articles delivered under the con.
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples
hibited, and all contracts will contain clause au
thorizing the United States to purchase Of Others,
and charge any increase of price paid therefor to
the party falling to furnish such required by
the terms Of his contract within five days after
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 efficiency must be
certified by United States Judge or District At
torncy. Payment will be made after the contract
ia completed and the delivery Of the goods as afore-
said to an agent OF the Department, upon a dup-
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 prcscribcd:
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.
ser the list of -goods.l Deliverable in the city of
New York on or before the first day of May next;
the quantity being prescribed by the Department,
] or we 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 case 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 United 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 or more responsible persons, whose sufh
cheney must be certified by some one who is known
to the Department either personally by his
official position:
81 for wei hereby guarantee that -, tho above
bidder, will comply with the terms Of the adver
tisemcnt for proposals for Indian Goods" dated
October 5, 1852, if the contract ehoud 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.
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vT'uE WEEK-Comprising the last day Of the
Il week, the first day Of the week, the week
completed. BY the author OF 1.-THE Command.