The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-12-04

| may Dc 0ruered. AL tne locks and keys OF the
same letter or letters are to be adapted to eacf
other. and no look is to be opened by any key mo-
marked with the same letter or letters.
The lock Of each kind contracted Tor must be
delivered according to order, at the Post Office
Department, at the risk and expense of the con.
tractor, put up in pasteboard boxes of five locks
each. and packed In strong wooden boxes con
tair ing not more than two hundred locks each
The keys to such locks are to be strung, by the
natural series OF numbers, on wire rods, each con
tanning one hundred keys, and are to be delivered
to an agent Of the Department specially author
lied to receive them and convey the same from
the mandatory to this Department, where both
the locks and keys are to be inspected and ap.
proved as comfortable to the adopted sample
before they shall be paid for.
From the sample locks and keys submitted
under this advertisement, the Postmaster
General will make a selection for contract, nm.
less he should deem it proper for the interests OF
the service, to decline accepting any of the pro.
posals and samples presented. Therefore the
right to reject any and all the proposals and
samples is hereby reserved to him.
Adhesion on the several proposals and various
samples submitted will be made on or before the
second day of February, 1874 and within thirty
days thereafter the bidder or bidders whose pro
posals NAV have besn al ,,not ontor ;nto
contract with bond and sacuritv a. baroina ftor
specified.
The contracts which m. " ba made will hs for
the farm ~ sour vso :. fro,,, ava or,ar tha rst
iav of Iannarv. 1874
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The contractor for locks and KEYS for Street
Letter Boxes will be required to furnish such
locks and keys In such quantities. and at such
times, as may be ordered by the Postmaster
General, and must agree. and be able. to furnish
twelve thousand Of such locks and six thousand
of such KEYS. II so ordered. within six months
after the recent of such order and to furnish
thereafter any further quantities of sucb locks
and KEYS as the same NAV beordered. On enter.
ing into this contract the contractor must execute
q bond In the penalty of twenty thousand dol.
lars with two SUFFICIENT sureties, (certied by the
postmaster of the place where they reside,) con
ditioned for the full and faithful performance of
such contract.
Both contracts will contain a provision bind
ing the contractor to guard, with due privacy,
integrity and care, the manufacture and custody
of the locks and keys, in the finished and unfln.
ished state. They will also contain the provi-
sion that, in case of any default on the part of
the contractor, causing the Postmaster General
to annul the contract, all locks and keys, finished
or unfinished, and all such patterns, drawings,
gauges and dies. In possession of the contractor,
as may enable others to make or successfully
counterfeit such locks and keys, SHALL forge or
on such annulment of the contract, become the
property of the United States, for the use of the
Post Office Department; and, thereupon, the
Postmaster General shall have the right besides
a resort to the remedy Of the bord, to demand
and receive the same from the contractor, who
shall promptly surrender the same, ON the
order, IN writing' OF the postmaster General,
without compensation. or any claim to compen-
sation Whatever FOR the same; also, that the