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DRoPosALs FOR BEEF FOR INDIANS
OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, ]
CENTRAL SUPERINTEND ENCY, )
N.u lSTS L

LAWRENCE, KAN, Nov. l5, 1876. }
Sealed proposals will be received at this Office
In duplicate, until II O'Clock, the 10th day of ID f.
CEMBER, 1875, for furnishing the following
named quantity of Beeftor issue to Indians In the
lndian Territory, TO wit:
For the Cneyenn and Arapahoe Agency-2,500
90 pounds, gross weight, Beef cattle on the hoot
For the Wichita Agency-l 200 900 pounds, gross
weig BIT. Beef cattle on the hOOf
For the Kiowa and Comanche Agency, 300-
600 pounds gross weight, Beef cattle on the hoof.
The delivery OF the cattle must CONNIE, ce at
g lch of the points named on the first day of Feb
ruary next. or at either one or all OF the points at
earlier date If required and thereafter dev.
cries shall be made at such times and IN such
Quantities as the service at The respective AgeD.
cies may require, the times of delivery and
amouuts to be delivered to be determined and
seasona BILE notice given by the respective United
States Agents In charge.
Good merchantable Beef cattle will be required.
Bids will state the price per pound, gross, at
which the Beef cattle will be delivered at each OF
the Agencies named.
Payments viii he made on proper receipts after
the account therefor shall have been properly ap-
proved.
tfsement attached thereto.
In executing any contract the right will be re-
served to increase or decrease the amount specified
above to an extent not exceeding twenty-five per
cent, and the right Is also reserved reject any
or all proposals, If such course should be deemed
or the best interests of the Government.
No bid will be received from any person who
has oefsulted In any bid heretofore made
No contract, or part thereof, will be permitted
out the written consent of the Secretary of the
interior.
Every bid must be accompanied by a certified
check or DRAFT, payable to the order OF the Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs, on some United States
depository, as a guarantee of good faith, which
check or draft shall be at least Eve per centum of
the aggregate amount of the bid, (or supplies
proposed to be furnished,) and in case any bid
der, on being awarded contract shall fail to
execute the same, with good and sufficient sure
ties, according 20 the terms which his 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 Treas
ury: but II such contract shall be duly executed
as aforesaid, such drait orcheck so deposited shall
be returned to he bidder.
At the execution Of the contract bond Will be
required TO irs full amount for the faithful per
formance hereof. with two or more sureties .hose
suficiency must be certified to by n United States
judge or district attorney
Proposals should be ineiosed imam envelope AL
dressed TO tie undersigned, and indorsea PRO.
posas for Beet for indiana
Bidders are invited to be present at the opening
of the proposals. ENOCH HOAG.
no22-MW&F Superintendent Indian Affairs.
DROPlSAL FOR OIL FOR 1857.
OFFICE OF THE LIGHTHOUSE BOARD
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is 1875. {
Sealed proposals viii be received at this office
until IL O'Clock IN. on WEDNk SDAY, the 5th
day of January. 1879, for suppl, ing hundred
and thirteen thousand (ll3O0O) gallons of the
best quality winter strained pure LARD Oil for
the United 81 ates Ligh house Service, according
to the specifications hearing date as above, copies
Of which may De nad, after November 70 on ap
piicaton 10 the Light house Board: TO the Light
house Inspector, Tompk insville, Staten Island,
n Y: the Lighthouse Inspector at No II Penn.
oerton square. Boston. Mass; the Ls house
J. G. WALKER,
Commander u. S. N, Naval Secre airy.
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