The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-28

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measure 81 by 66, and weigh pounds
CLASS No. 2.-Dry Goods.
500 yards scarlet strouds
| 500 do blue do
1000 do fancy list blue cloth
i75 do DO scarlet do
$50 do do green do
5000 do gray list blue do
1000 yards sared list blue cloth
$500 do scarlet do
ITS do green do
375 pounds worsted yarn, 3 fold
65 dozen cotton flag handkerchief
60 do do black uS silk ma'''' DO DO
50 do 4 cotton shawls
40 do -
| 30 do S.4 woolen 10
600 pounds linen thread
| 20 do sewing silk
800 pieces ribbons, assorted
| Is gross worsted gathering
33 pieces silk handkerchief
| 30 900 yards calico
| 10000 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, bleaohcd
1900 DO do do unbeached
|
5000 do checks, stripes, and plaids
200 dozen woollen socks
| $500 yards iannels, assorted
! 1000 flannel shirts
300 calico shirts
| 600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
CLASS No. 3.-Hard,care and agricultural
implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
| 10000 gun fnts
| % gross squaw avis
| 5000 fab hooks
| 100 dozen fish lines
| $4,000 needles
1875 dozen combs, assorted
% do scissors do
gross gun worms
300 tin kettles
so nests japanned kettles, 8 in nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and ~ inchesin length
300 auge-s in equal proportions of H. |, I, and
Inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
2! cross-cut saws, 7 feet in length
300 hand.saw files
100 cross cut saw files
l6O log chains, assorted, y to IL feet
100 Whittemore cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chisels, J, l, and pinch
SO planes, fore and jack.
Glass No. 4-.ares.
95 dozen axes, to weigh from d to 81 pounds
Is " half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
l3 I" hatchets, to weigh u pounds
10 broadaxes.
Glass No. 5-.North,cest Guns.
800 northwest guns, two. thirds of which must
measure Sc inches in length of barrel, and
onethird ~ inches in length OF barrel
To be delivered in New York or Philadelphia,
may be required.
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with reference to the most recent improvements in
manufacture, deposited in tho 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
diminish the quantity of any Of the articles
named, or substitute others in lieu tn reof, or to
require at similar prices such goods as may be
wanted for presents or other purposes in the ad
minstraton of the affairs Of the Department. and
to award the contract to the party whose bid shal
he deemed most advantageous to the indiana 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
of foreign manufacture, ii will be necessary, when
domestic article of the kind is offered, that sam
pie OF it shouiJ accompany the bid.
any one more of the foregoing classes will make
invoice Of all the items therein, and atfix the
prices, in dollars and cents, at which he IT they
will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
basis Of calculation the qua nifty of each Article as
therein specified, extending the cost and showing
the aggregate amount of the whole invoice const-
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 the con
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples x
hibited, and all contracts will contain clause au
thorzing the United States to purchase OF Others,
and charge any increase of price paid therefor to
the party falling to furnish such as are required by
the terms of his contract within five days after
tcc of rejection shall be given him by said agent
Bonds will be required in the amount of the bds
for the faithful performances OF the contracts, with
two or more sureties, whose sufficiency must be
certified by a 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 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 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
New York on'or before the fret day of May next;
and, in cage of the acceptance Of this proposal,
the quantity being prescribed by the Department.
Tor wei will execute contract according to
this agreement, and give satisfactory security to
the Department within ten days after the recep-
ton of this bid; and, ia case Of failure to enter
into such contract and give such sec3r'ty. Tor
wei will pay to the United States the difference
between the sum hidden by me Tor us and the
sum which the United States may be obliged to
pa " for the same artcies.t
Each and every bid must also be accompanied
by guarantee in the following form, to be signed
by more responsible persons whose suffi
cheney mnst be certified by some one who is known
to the Department either personally by his
official positions
81 for vel hereby guarantee that -, the above
bidder, will comply with the terms of the adver.
tisement for "Proposals for Indian Goods" dated
October g. 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.
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rTNHE WEEK-Comprising the last day OF the
l. week, the fret day Of the week, the week