Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-21
DBOPOsALs FOB MAIL BAG TAOS.
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT,

Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT, !
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this De.
paTtment hattttigslrs ocOck, noon, the trsHty 6Ta
day Of Oc,obsr, 1875, for furnishing by contract
Printed Wooden Tags, in such quantities and nj
such times as may be required and ordered during
quantity Of such Tags to be furnished being two
hundred thousand, more or less as snail BE- required
Such Tags are 10 be Of two kinds-narrow and
Tie arrow Tags are to be made of suitable hard
WOOD, OF .lght color In rectangular strips, each
slN ana hall inches long, one inch Tiis and a
nan men tblck, ana having circular hole three
elshths ~ an inch In diameter bored through IL at
point one inch from one end Each of these Tags >
to have printed and slightly indented thereon, in
suitably large letters. the of such post Office
route agency as may be specified in schedules which
VIII accompany eacn order, aud also have printed
thereCn In smaller letters direction for it, return
10 such Office viii be specified in such schedules
The wide Tags are TO be- similar to the others in
two inches ne IF n ne TSh 6 must be
ing which viii consist of such brief direction i
SPECIFIED IN tho scheduled for mails sent to foreign
Samples Of the Tags hereby 'vertised for can bs
90otalntd, on application to !ho Second Assistant
this Department, at th8 risk aud pense of the con-
tractor, and must be inspected and be found to con
before they shall be accepted or paid for.
Every proposal must specify, Exceptionally, the
The proposal. received will be opened, read and
Yer ne a TINS gsps s eni az noon ne tcsatg
n ade within five days thereafter. .
The Postmaster General hereby reserves the right
to reject any all Of the proposals received under
this advertisement, If, i'll his Judgment, the inter-
ests OF the Department may thereby be promoted.
The accepted bidder must enter into contract,
and, with two sureties, satisfactory to the Post
master General, be bound ia the penalty of four
thousand dollars for the faithful and proper per
Torrance OF the contract; and for failure on the
part OF the contractor to comply with the contract
he and his sureties shall be liable for forfeiture
OF the fu cum OF four thousand dollars as qudated
dam ages TO he sued for in the of the United
states, In an action Of debt in any court having
Jurisdiction thereof
This contract and obligation must be duly signed
aud executed, within twenty days after the receipt
thereof from this Department.
Every proposal must be accompanied with bond,
IN the penalty OF two Thousand dollars executed by
the bidder and two sureties, certified to be sufficient
by the postmaster where they resided conditioned
Tor the bidders entering into Contract as herein
before speched IN case his proposal be accepted by
the Postm aster General
Blank forms Of proposal and bond will be furnished
on application TO the Second ant Postmaster
&c neral; and all bidders required To conform
thereto, in submitting their bids under this adyer-
tisement. -
Every proposal should be incIosed in a sealed
envelope, iDdoIsed Proposals for Mail Bag Tags y
and be addressed to the Second Assistant Post
master General, w ashington. ID. @.
MARSHALL JEWELL,
sepHtu'iw Postmaster General.