The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-26

CLASS No. 2.-Dry Goods.
500 yards scarlet strouds
500 do blue do
a l9s do do fancy =. list s s!ss s!1 Sa
100 do do green do
5000 do gray list blue do
1000 yards sared list blue cloth
500 90 scarlet do
375 pounds worsted Yarn, 3 fold
IS dozen cotton flag handkerchiefs
so do do Madras do.
TO do black silk do
so do cotton shawls
IS do Cd do
40 do A
80 do 81 woollen 10
600 pounds linen thread
30 do sewing silk
800 pieces ribbons, assorted
Us gross worsted gathering
80 pieces silk handkerchiefs
$4,000 yards calico
l6, 900 do Merimac calico
$500 do blue drilling
1000 do Georgia stripes
5000 do blue denims
1900 do cottonade
5000 do bed ticking
600 do Kentucky jeans
1000 do satinetts
5000 do plaid linsey
$500 do domestic shrtine bIeached
1914 900 do do do unbeached
5000 do do sheeting, do
5000 do checks. stripes, and plaids
200 dozen wooen socks
500 yards aannels, assorted
1000 flannel shirts
800 calico shirts
600 pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton.
CLASS No. 3.-Hmdvare and Agricultural
Implements.
1850 pounds brass kettles
81 dozen butcher knives
10000 gun fints
25 gross squaw avis
5000 fish hooks
100 dozen fish lines
1000 needles
l25 dozen COMBS assorted
% do scissors do
gross gun worms
300 tin kettles
so nests japanned kettles, in a nest
80 drawing knives, 10 and IL inches in length
300 auge in equal proportions Of u. l, Z, and
! inch
lis pairs names
1877 pairs trace chains
$50 wedding hoes
$50 hand saws
q cross-cut saws, I feet in length
20 do do do d.
800 hand-saw files
100 cross cut saw flies
l6O log chains, assorted, to IL feet
100 Whitcmore cards, No. 10
500 quarters socket chisels. !, l, and 2.inch
90 planes, fore and jack.
CLASS No. 4-Ares.
30 dozen axes TO weigh from ~ to o. pounds
Is " half axes, to weigh 81 pounds
Is hatchets, to weigh / ! pounds
70 broadaxes.
CLASS No. 5-.Norih,vesi Guns.
500 northwest guns, two-thirds of which must
measure Sc inches in length Of barrel, and
one third AZ 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 improve ments 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 diminish 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 for presents or other pur poses in the ad-
,niniatraton of the affair Of the Department, and
TO award the contract to the party whose bid shall
be deemed most adv anita cous 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 blankets and cloths are
of foreign manufacture, it will be necessary, when
a domestic article Of the kind is offered, that sam
pie OF ii 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 affix the
prices, in dollars and cents, al which he or thew
will furnish them, deliverable in New York on or
before the fret day of May next, assuming
basis of calculation the quantity of each article
therein specified, extending the cost and 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 il will be re-
quired that the articles delivered under the
tracts shall conform strictly with the samples ex-
hihited, and all contracts will contain clause au
thcrizing the United States to purchase Of Others
and charge any increase Of price paid therefor to
the party failing TO furnish such as are 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
Tor the faithful performance OF the contracts, with
two or moro sureties, whose suifcieney 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 an agent Of the Department, upon dupli-
cate invoice certified by him.
The bids will be submitted with the following
heading, and none will be received that 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
price. affixed to them respectively, viz: Here in.
seit the list of goods. Deliverable in the city Of
New York on or before the first day of May next;
and, in Gaze OF the acceptance OF this proposal,
the quantity being prescribed by the Department,
Tor 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 case of failure to enter
into such contract and give such security, i Tor
wei will pay to the United States the difference
between the sum hidden by me for us] 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 persons, whose sufh
cheney must be certified by some who is known
to the Department either personally or by his
official position:
81 Tor wei hereby guarantee that -, the above
bidder, will comply with the terms of the adver
tisement for proposals for Indian Goods" dated
October 5, 1862 if the contract should be awarded
TO him, and enter into bond for the execution of
the came within the time prcscribed.'
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Commissioner Of Indian Affairs.
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