The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-11-18


Glass No. 2.-Dry Goods.
| 500 yards scarlet strouds
| 500 do blue do
a' 19S do do fancy % list s s!ss cloth %n
100 do do green do
| 5000 do gray list blue do
1000 yards sared list blue cloth
$500 do scarlet do
ITS do green do
s76 pounds worsted yarn. 3 fold
IS dozen cotton flag handkerchiefs
30 do do Madras do
60 do black elk do
50 do 8 4 cotton shawls
| 30 do S.4 woollen 10
600 pounds linen thread
20 do sewing silk
| 800 pieces ribbons, assorted
is gross worsted gathering
80 pieces silk handkerchief
| $1,000 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
1909 do satinetts
5000 do plaid linsey
$500 do domestic shirting. bIeached
| $4,000 do do do unbeacbed
| 5000 do checks. stripes, and plaids
| 200 dozen woollen socks
| 500 yards hannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
800 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
| 400 dozen spool cotton.
CLASS No. 3.-Hard,care and horticultural
Implements.
! 1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun fints
rs gross sQuaw awls
5000 fsh hooks
100 dozen fish lines
l9, 900 needles
l25 dozen combs. assorted
% do scissors do
7 gross Lun worms
1900 tin kettles
so nests japanned kettles, . in a nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and ~ inches!h length
300 ange o in eqnal proportions Of J, |, I, and
inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace ChanA
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
q q o DO So saws, d feet in IL length
300 hand. saw files
100 cross cut saw files
l6o log chains. assorted, y TO II feet
100 Whttemore cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chses, !, ! and 2-iuctl
90 planes, fore and jack.
Glass Ma. 4-.4res
20 doIe" axes, TO weigh from TO 6s pounds
Is g half axes, u weigh 3. pounds
Is " hatchets, to weigh u pounds
10 broadaxes.
CLASS No. 5-.N0rthasest G,,us.
500 northwest guns, two thirds of which must
measure 36 inches in length of barrel, and
one third ~ inches in length Of barrel.
To be delivered in New York or Philadelphia,
az 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 Yeas. open for the iE3peE.
ton OF biddere.
The Department reserves the right TO increase
or diminish the quantity of any OF the articles
med, or substitute others in lieu thereof or to
require at similar prices auch goods may be
wanted Tor presents or other purposes in the adj
ministration of the affair 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 mnnufac-
ture. all other things being equal, will be prefer.
rcd but as the samples of blankets and cloths
OF foreign man uiacture, II will he necessary when
domestic article OF the kind is offered, that SAM
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 ali the Items therein and affix the
prices, in dollars and ccnts, at which he or they
will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
before the first day Of May next, assuming
baes Of calculation the qua nifty Of each article
therein specified, extending the cost aud showing
the aggregate amount of the hole 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
quired that the articles delivered under tho
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples
hill tied, and all contracts will contain clause
thori2ng 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 no.
tice Of rejection shall be given him by said agent
D,kn Dc hor Ia If
for the faithful performance Of the contracts, with
two more suretes, whose sufhciency 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 dupi-
cate invoice certified by him.
The bds will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that not
made in the form and terms here prescribcd:
ri Tor wei propose to furnish for the service Of
the Indian Department the following goods, at the
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 n contract according to
this agreement, and give satisfactory security to
the Department within ten days after the reccp-
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 br obliged to
pay for the mc articles"
Each and every bid must also b. accompanied
by guarantee in the following form, to be signed
by responsible persons, whose sufh
cheney must be certified by some one who is known
to the Department either personally or by his
tfficiai position:
81 Tor wei hereby guarantee that -, the above
bidder, will comply with the terms oi the adver
tiscment for proposals for Indian Goods" dated
o. tober 5, 1882 If the contract should be awarded
TO him, and enter into bond for the execution Of
the came within the time pre- scribed."
fSEAL.l
tSEAL.J
l.. LEA,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Ost D -3.,SINw Intelligence and Union.l
TINE WEEK-Comprising the last day Of the
i wcvk, the first day Of the week, the week
completed. by the author Of 1.-THE Command
ment with Promise This Ia al excellent volume,
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