Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-09-29

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5000 do bleached shifting
$4,000 do domestic shifting, unbleached
1900 do do sheeting do
5000 do checks, stripes and plaids
200 dozen wollen socks
1900 yards fiannels, assorted
COO pounds cotton thread
400 dozen spool cotton
500 pounds cotton maitre
50 do best Chinese vermillion
700 do brown gilling Irvine, No. 30
500 flannel shirts
1,5OO calico do
Glass No. 2.
RsGdy-mads Clothing.
$50 blue cloth frock coats
$50 do Pantaloons
Hardware and A Agricultural Implements
5000 pounds brass kettles
LOCO tin kettles
$50 nests japanned kettles, in nest
20 dozen 10-quart tin pans
40 do 6-quart do
as do 4-quart do
so do 2-quart do
300 do butcher knives
$50 do soaking knives
20 III gun fints
10 gross gun worms
so do squaw avis
100 do fish hooks, assorted
400 dozen fish lines do
400 gross needles
lbs dozen combs
So do scissors
do bush scythes
10 do grass do
do grain do
do AIDES
Is do grubbing hoes
80 do wedding hoes
SO pairs names
100 do trace chains
200 log chains
$50 drawing knives, 10 and u inches in length
200 augers, in equal proportions Of IL, i, y,
and 4 inch
$50 hand saws
% cTOss-cut saws, feet in length
% do do do do
SO dozen hand saw files
do cross-cut saw files
do wood rasps
400 quailers socket chisels, 4, /, and 2-inch
90 planes, fore and jack
10 dozen shOvels
% do spades
$50 camp kettles
1900 short handled frying pans
40 dozen basting spoons
$50 do iron table spoons
40 do tin cups
Is do scythe snaths
do cow bells
Glass Nod
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dozen axes, to weigh from IL to 81 pounds
50 do half axes, to weigh 3X pounds
81 do hatchets, to weigh i pounds
do broad axes, ordinary size
Said goods to be furnished at Boston, New York
Philadelphia, Baltimore. Pittsburu. Cincinnati
ST Louis, Detroit, or Chicago, as may be specified
IN the accepted bids; and the deliveries thereof 10
be made on or before the LIST day Of April next OF
at such time or times thereafter during the year
1856 as may be ordered by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
The right will be reserved to require greater or
less quantity of any of the articles named than that
specified in the above schedule; and also any
others of the same class but of different descrip
ton, that may be needed, at the lowest market
prices
Goods of American manufacture Of the required
styles and quality, will be preferred; but as the
samples of Blankets and cloths are foreign fabrics
~ VIII be necessary, in proposing domestic arti-
Gle of either of those kinds that sample thereof
shall accompany the bid.
The articles to be furnished must in all respects
conform to, and be equal with, the samples re-
Gently selected, which may be seen at this office,
or such samples of American manufacture as may
be furnished and approved. They will be rigidly
inspected and compared with tie samples by an
agent o. agents appointed fer that purpose Such
as may be unequal thereto in any particular will
De rejected; in which the contractor will b..
bound to furnish others of the required kind or
quality within three days. or, If that he not
dcne, they will be purchased at his expense
Payment will be made for the goods received on
appointed to inspect them.
Bonds viii be required in the amount of the bid
10 the faithful performance Of the contract, with
TWO or more sureties, whose sutiiciency must be
certified by United States judge district attor-
ney.
The proposals must embrace the articles. with
the quantities thereof as they arranged in the
foregoing schedule, with the prices annexed TO
each in dollars and cents at which they will he
furnished and the amounts must be carried out
and footed up for each class. TAey should be
submitted with the following heading:
81 Tor wei hereby propose to furnish for the
service OF the Indian Department and according
to the terms Of its advertisement therefor. dated
september "a, 1855, the following ar icles al the
prices hereto annexed there insert the list accord
Ing TO the class or classes proposed for deliver
abe In the city Of [BCston, New York PhiIadel
phia, Baltimore, Plttsburg, Cincinnati. ST Louis
Detroit or Chicago, as the case may be, 1 on or
before The first dav of AnFil &C..
or times during the year 1856 as NAV be ordered
by the Commissioner CT Indian Affairs; and 4
Tor wei will also furnish, at the same prices such
addltional quantities Of the same kinds and quail
ueS OF goods, and at the lowest market prices,
such other articles Of the same class but of diff
ferent description, may be required for the SER
wee OF the Indian Department: during the year
proposal be accepted, there insert the words in
Wnole OF In part II more than one class be pro
posed for,J i Tor wei Will, within twenty days
thereafter, execute contract accordingly, and
give security, satisfactory to the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, for the faithful performance Ct
the same.p a
Each proposal mrst be accompanied by guar
antee, In the following form, to be signed by two
or more responsible persons, whose sufdciency
must be certified to by one or more persons pei
sonal'y or officially known to the department.:
II lor wei hereby guaranty that the above bid
der, Tor bidders, If contract be awarded TO him
[.I them,] according TO his for theirl foregoing
bid or proposal, will execute a contract and olive
security for the performance thereof as prescribed
In the advertisement for proposals for Indian
agree to pay any and all damages or losses which
the United States or the Indians NAV suffer hv
reason OF fainre so to do on the part of said bid
der'' for bidders -
No proposal win be considered that does no,
strictly conform TO the terms and directions of THIS
advertisement GEO. w MANYPENNY,
,. Commissioner