Arizona citizen., 1874-07-18
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES
FOR INDIANS IN ARIZONA AND NEW
 MEXICO.

| Colorado River Agency, Arizona. ,50O,0O0 pounds good merchantable Beef Cattle, on the hoof l $50, ,000 pounds xxx Flour. | 12.000 pounds Coffee, (green). | A,000 pounds good Brown Sugar. Camp Apache Agency, Arizona. 1 1,12O,OOO pounds good merchantable Beef Cattle, on the hoOf
 4l2,500 pounds xxx Flour. 5000 pounds Coffee, (green,) 1S,000 pounds good Brown Sugar.
 San Carlos Agency, Arizona. l, 1,925,OOO pounds good merchantable Beef Cattle, on the hOof. 100000 pounds xxx Flour.
 13,0O0 pounds Coffee, (green.)
 26000 pounds good Brown Sugar.
 Chiricahua Agency, Arizona.
 S25, ,0OO pounds good merchantable Beef
 Cattle, on the hOoE
 300000 pounds xxx Flour.
 5000 pounds Coffee, (green.)
 12,0O0 pounds good Brown Sugar.
 Mescalero Apache Agency, N. M. 100000 pounds good merchantable Beef
 Cattle, on the hOOf.
 100000 pounds xxx Flour.
 5000 pounds Coffee, (green.) 18,O00 pounds good Brown Sugar.
 Southern Apache Agency, N. M.
 25O,O00 pounds good merchantable Beef
 Cattle, on the hoof. 100000 pounds xxx Flour. 5000 pounds Coffee, (green.)
 5000 pounds good Brown Sugar.
 Bids for Beef Cattle will state price per pound gross. Parties bidding for the Oth- CT articles will state price per pound net, and furnish a sample of each article bid for. The prices must be given without modification or any proposed modifica- ton whatever.
 The delivery of the Beef Cattle and Flour must commence at each Of the points named within thirty days after nO- tice of the award is received. The other articles to be delivered at the respective agencies as required for the service.
 That there may be no failure on the part of the contractor, he will be required to keep the Beef Cattle in the vicinity of the agency, to be delivered when required; and should it be aScertained that he Is not collecting cattle in the vicinity fast enough or should he fail to deliver them as reQuir- ed, the undersigned will purchase, or cause to be purchased, Beef Cattle as he may elect, at the expense of said contract
 In executing the contract the right will be reserved to increase or diminish the quantity of any of the articles embraced in the foregoing schedule, and the further right will be reserved to increase or de- crease the amount specified in any con tract to an extent not exceeding twenty five per cent.
 Ali articles furnished by contract made under this advertisement will be subject to inspection, and such articles as may in any respect fail to conform to the require ments of contract and the sample will be rejected, and in that case the contractor or contractors will be bound to furnish others of the required kind or quality without delay, or if that be not done they will be purchased at his or their expense.
 Payments will be made at this Office on proper receipts, after the accounts therefor shall have been properly approved.
 Each copy of eacn proposal must have a copy of this advertisement pasted at its head.
 The right is reserved to reject any or all proposals, if such a course should be deemed for the interest of the government.
 No bids will be considered from persons who have failed to comply with the re- uuirements of Q former contract.
 No contract, or part thereof, will be per mitted to be assigned or filled by other parties without the written consent Of the Secretary of the Interior.
 Bidders whose proposals shall exceed the sum of $5,OOO must accompany their bids with certified check or draft, paya-, ble to the order of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, upon some United States Orsolvent national bank, which check or draft shall not be less than five per centum on the amount of the goods, supplies transportation, &c., as aforesaid; and in case any such bidder, on being awarded @ contract, shall fail to execute
 
 according to the terms on which such bid was made and accepted, such bidder shall forfeit the amount so deposited to the United. States, and the same shall forth with be paid into the Treasury; but if such contract shall be duly executed as afore- said. such draft or check so deposited shall be returned to the bidder.
 Bonds will be required in the amount Of the bid for the faithful performance of the contract, with two or more sureties, whose sufficiency must be certified to by a United States Judge or District Attorney.
 Each bidder must designate his place Of business, where communications sent to him will be received, the same to be en- tered in his contract, should one be award ed him.
 Proposals should be inclosed in an en- yelope, addressed to the undersigned, and indorsed Proposals for Supplies for Ind ians in Arizona and New Mexico"
 Bidders are invited to be present at the opening of the bids.
 The bids will be opened in the presence of the Board of Indian Commissioners and a Committee to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior as soon as the time for receiving the same shall have e1- pired, and the contracts will be awarded as soon thereafter as practicable.
 EDW. P. SMITH, 38-4w Commissioner.