The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-17

CLASS No. 2-Dry Goods.
500 yards scarlet strouds
500 do blue do
1000 DO DO fancy list t blue cloth ah
$50 do do green DO
5000 do gray list blue do
1000 yards sared list blue cloth
IT'S IFS do green do
s7S pounds worsted yarn, 8 fold
.65 dozen cotton flag handkerchieis
SO do do Madras do
50 do 4 cotton sbawls
25 do o. do
90 90 DO DO j. woolleu 10
600 pounds linen thread
| 20 do sewing silk
slO pieces ribbons, assorted
IS gross worsted gathering
80 pieces silk handkerchief
30, 900 yards calico
l6. 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 satinetts
$500 do domestic shifting, bIeached
49, 900 do do do unbeached
5000 do do sheeting. do
5000 do checks. stripes, and plaids
200 dozen wooen socks
500 yards fannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
800 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
Glass No. 3.-Hard,oare and Agricultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun fiints
Is gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
100 dozen fish lines
10, 900 needles
1875 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors do
gross run worms
], 300 tin kettles
so nests japanned kettles, in nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and 70 inchesin length
300 auge in equal proportions Of !, l, 7, and
inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
q cross-cu. saws, 7 feet in length
IS do do do do
800 hand saw files
100 cross c ut saw flea
l6O log chains, assorted, y to IL feet
lQO Whittemora cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chisels, !, /, and 2-inch
80 planes, fore and jack.
CLASS No. 4-.Ares.
ss dozen axes. to weigh from a to s. pounds
| 10 broadaxes.
Glass No. 5-.North,Dest Guns.
| 800 northwest guns, two thirds Of which must
measure Sc 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
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 nspec-
| 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 tn. reof or to
| require at similar prices such goods may be
wanted for presents or other .purpose in the ad
mnistration of the affairs of the Department, and
to awnrd the contract to the party whose bid shall
| be deemed most advantag eous to the Indians and
| the Government. Goods OF American manufac-
tpre. all other things being equal, will be prefer
red; but as the samples OF blankets md cloths are
domestic article Of the kind is offered, that
| pie OF it 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 fret day of May next, assuming id
bass 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
bs h ss OF as ~ who
| quired that the articles delivered under the con
tracts shall conform strictly with tho samples OK
| hibited, and all contracts will contain a clause
tborizing 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 reectio shal be given him by said agent
Bonds will be required in the amount Of the bids
for the faithful performance OF the contracta, with
two or more suretes, whose snftie iency must be
certified by United States Judge OF District At
torney. Payment will be made after the contract
Is eompeted and the delivery Of the goods as 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 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
scrt the list Of goodsl 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
| for wei will execute contract according to
this agreement, and give satisfactory security to
the Department within ten days after the reccp-
into such contract and give such security, Tor
| wei will pay to the United States the difIerepse
between the sum biddon by me for usl and the
sum which the United States may be obliged to
| pay for the same articles" .H . ..tH ....-
| Each and every bid must also be accompanied
by guarantee in the following form, to be signed
| by one or more Responsible persons, whose sum
cheney must be certified by some one who Ia known
to the Department either personally or by his
| official position; ... .- ..s.5 ..H.
| 81 for wei hereby guarantee that ----, tho aboye
| bidder, will comply with the terms Of the adver-
| tiscment 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"
! tr .r. [SEAL.]
| (SEAL.l
| .-.s, l.. LEA,
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
| O;t 6-3tiwtNDv [Intelligencer and Union.
THE WEEK-Comprising the last day of the
| l. week, the first day of the week, the week
comp leted By the author Of 1.-THE Command
ment with Promise" This lie an excellent volume,