Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-15

$500 do Georgia stripes
$500 do blue dennins
1900 do cottonade
8 $50 do bed ticking
500 do Kentucky jeans
1900 DO satinets
1900 do plaid insey
3.l00 do domestic shirtings, bleached
17,eOO do Go do unbleacbed
1000 do do Sheeting, do
5000 do check, stripes. and plads
SIS dozen woollen socks
$50 yards fiannes. assorted
500 flannel shirts
LOCO calico do
$50 pounds cotton thread
2c0 dozen spool cotton
$50 pounds cotton matre
loo blue Goth coats
100 do pantaloons
81 pounds vermillion
CLASS No ,.
Hcrd,rGTc and agricultural Implements
2,lOO pounds brass kettles
65 dozen butchers knives
10000 gun tnts
81 gross squaw avis
$500 fish hooks
dozen bush scyth,s
do grass do
do grain do
0 do AIDES
Is do grubbng hoes
) do wood rasps
100 do fish lines
$4,000 needles
125 dozen combs assorted
% do scissors, do
gross gun worms
200 tim kettles
IS SIS japsnn.d kettles. in a nest
90 drawing knives, 10 and 70 inches in length
200 augers, in equal proportions of Il. l, z, md
u inch
95 pairs names
195 do trace chains
515 wedding hoes
155 hand-sawJ
% cross cut saws, feet in length
70 do DO do do
80 handsaw files
loo crosscut saw files
20 log chains. assorted to II feet
$50 quarters socket chisels, u, l. and inch
10 planes, fore and jack
- mule collars
1850 pounds brown giiling Irvine No. 80
20 dozen two4uart tin pans
20 do four quart do
10 do six-quart do
In do ten-quurt do
l52 hand corn mills, four Sizes in equal proper
20 dozen scalping knives
CLASS No j.
fires.
% dozen axes. to weigh from 4 4 to 51s pounds
II do half axes, to weigh 80 pounds
u do hHtchcts to weigh ! y pounds
20 broad axes.
CLASS Not
Northwest Guns.
80 northwest guns two-thirls Of which must
measure 80 inches in length of barrel and one
third IL inches in length Of barrel, ~ include
covers and packin-caseS.
To be delivered in Boston, New York or Philadel-
rhia, rs may lie required.
Samples of tie above articles may Re seen ut the
of'ce OF the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The department reserves the right to increase Iii
llnlsh the quantity of the articles named to .ub
Sttut" "hcTs Ill lieu thereof; and also require ut
similar prices, such other goods may he rceded in
fuiim"ut Of treaty sUpuatons, for other purpos-
cS III the administration OF the affairs of the depart
eut at any time during the next year and TO award
the contract to the PARTY ho,e bid shall he deemed
most advantageous to the Indians and the govern
ment. Goods Of American manufacture. all other
things being equal will lie prtferre but n the sarp
pes of blankets and cloths of foreign manufac-
turc it will he necessary. when domestic article of
tie kind is offered that S"mp.e of il accompany the
iii.
Tic party proposing 10 furnish the articles in any
on" III liUc of the foregoing classes will make III
voice oll the items therein. and ix tn" prices in
dollars and cents At which he they will furnish
them, deliverable in Boston, New York, OF Phgtlci-
h:,, before the first dnv of Apri next a,,run-
iHE basis Of calculation the quantity of each al
t,o!c - therein specified, extending the est, ard
shC wing the aggregate amount of the whole.
The goods viii he Inspected at the place Of delivery
hy an agent OF the department Y no will be appointed
for the purpose; and H. will be required that the 'ar
ticic> delivered under the contracts shall conform
strictly with the samples exhiEite: nd all contracts
VIII contain cause authorizing the United States
to purchase OF Others. and charge any increase of
pice paid therefor to the party falling to furnish
such rs are re Iuired by the terms of his contract
within five days after notice of rejection shall he xiv
HIM Tx said agent.
Bonds viii he required in the amount nf the E.Is
lor tie faithful performance of the contracts with two
OF more eure:ios, whose suiliriency must he certified
by United states Judge district attorney Paw
mcnt will lie made after the delivery of the poIs as
Aforesaid. to ?.ent % the department. upon a du-
pllratc inN oiCe certified by him.
III" bids viii lie submitted with tho following
hradiHr, ard none VIII to considered that are not
mad" III the form nd terms here prescribed:
u or w"1prn,Ose TO furnish for the service of the
Indian Department, the following Goods AT the :rrr.
NH al to them pectively, viz (Iere insert the
Ii of co~iS-} deliverable in the city Of Boston New
York. P!lilad"l!h'a, may be REQUIRE d ON or
before the first day OF April next together with all
such other Goods. at similar price-. u may lac re-
quirc for III" Indian Department at any time durin
the .e'Ir lsjl: and if this prof o-al be accented,
Cor WEI Will. within ten days thereafter execute n
contract accordingly and give satisfactory security
to TIE department fer the faithful execution of ths
sane
in ease of failure to enter into such contract and
give such security, (or wei will pay to the United
states whatever excess Of amount the Indian Dc
pertinent nay be obi ed to pay for the articles herein
'cClh@i. and such Others n 1t may REQUIRE durinr
Tie year lS5i over and above what the same would
haVec"st according 70 the terms of this bid"
Each and every bid must also he accompanied by
guarantee, in the following FORM to be siyned by
one or more responsible persons, whose suticjencv
br certified 10y som+ one who is known to the
Experiment.. either PERSONALLY by his official Do
-i0n:
- Vt, hereby guaranty that the above bidder
cor h;ddtrsy Will comply with the terms Of the ai-
vrrtis.m"nt for Proposals for Indian Goods dated
September b 1853 if the contract should he award
cd to him, Cor them.) and enter into bond for the
execution OF the same within the time prescribed"
SEAL.
CHARLES E. MIX,
Acting Conmi, soncr