National Republican., 1876-06-06
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PROPOSALS FOR POST OFFICE EN-

l. VELOPES.
PosT OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May II, 1910
Sealed proposals will be received at this De-
Partment until TUESDAY, the 10Th day Of June,
1875, at u O'Clock m, for furnishing in such guam
titles and at such times as may be required, the
ollowing-described Post Office Envelopes during
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1871, to wit:
FOR OFFICIAL LETTERS AND RETURNS.
NO. Csize, "a by 81 inches. Estimated num-
M No 2.35ita5 si5s " "a X * inches Estimated num-
No: s-siIe, isis by So inches. Estimated
number required, 100000.
No sire, y BY lo14 inches. Estimated num-
FOR RETURNING DEAD LETTERS.
Size, SH BY SS inches. Estimated number re-
FOR REGISTERED PACKAGES.
Size; BY lo1s inches. Estimated number re-
bidders. The Department may require more or
less of each kind, as the service may demand.
Bids must be made for each kind of envelope
(otcial, dead-etter, and registered sep
arstely, and the contract will be awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder for all the envelopes the
prices to be calculated on The foregoing esti-
Samples of the different sizes and styles of en-.
yelopes required, together with blank forms for
Assistant Postmaster General.
The envelopes must strictly conform in size,
STas q PsPe ing and make to the
be done in the best manner. The envelopes must
be banded in parcels of twenty five, packed in
strong pasteboard or straw boxes securely bound
with linen or cotton cloth on the corners and
edges, each to contain not less than $50 of sizes
Nos. and 2 and not less than 100 of the other
sizes, or otherwise, as may be ordered; the boxes
to be wrapped In strong manila paper, and prop
erly sealed, so as to bear safe transportation by
mail 10 Iostmasters. When required to be deliv-
cred at the Department the wrapping may be dis
General
When 900 or more envelopes are required to
fill the order of postmaster, or when large lots
are ordered to be sent to the Post Once Depart
ment, they must be packed in strong wooden
cases and properly addressed; but when less than
1000 are required to be sent by mail proper labels
OF direction must be placed on each package; all
to be done BY the contractor without additional
charge.
The envelopes must be delivered in such guam.
titles as may from time TO time be required to fill
the orders Of pOstmasters or of the Department,
and be delivered either at the post office in the
city where the accepted bidder resides, at this
Department, as the Postmaster General may d.
rect free Of cost for packing, labelling and deliv-
ering; the whole to be done under the inspection
and supervision Of an agent Of the Department
AL the envelopes herein described must bear
such printing as The Postmaster General may d.
rect, and the registered package envelopes viii
be required to be printed in yermiliOn or some
the sample.
The contractor will not be required to pay roy
atty on envelopes manufactured from the samples
furnished by the Department.
The Postmaster General reserves the right to
reject any and all bids IT, in his Judgment the in
IeTeSts OF tle GOFeTnmenI require IL: also the
right to annul the contract IT, in his opinion there
shall be failure at any time TO perform faithfully
any OF its supuations, or in case Of willful at
tempt to impose upon the Department envelopes
inferior to those now in use
Each proposal must be signed by the Individual
or partnership making it; and when made by o
partnership Tie name of each partner thereof
must be disclosed, and it must be accompanied by
a guaranty that the bidder shall, within ten days
tract to furnish promptly and in quantities as or
dered, the article or articles to be furnished by
him, the responsibility and suficiency Of the sign
ers TO such guaranty to be certified to by the post
master or United States attorney where the bid
der resides; in which contract the contractor and
his sureties shall covenant and agree that In
the said contractor shall fail to do perform all
or any Of the covenants stipulatOns and agree
ments Of said contract the part of the said con-
tractor to be performed as therein set forth, the
said contractor and his sureties shall forfeit and
pay to the United States of America the sum of
twenty thousand dollars for which said forfeiture
the said contractor and his sureties shall be Jointly
and severally liable, as lquidated damages, to be
sued for in the name Of the United States.
If the bidder TO whom the first award may be
tOfOre provided, then the award may be annulled
and the contract let to the next lowest responsl-
BILE bidder, If not deemed too high by the Post
master General, and SO on until the required con-
tract is executed: and such next lowest bidder
shall be required to fulhIl every stipulation en-
braced herein as II he were the original party to
whom the contract was awarded.
The contract will also provide that II at any
time during its continuance the sureties shall die
or become irresponsible, the Postmaster General
shall have the right to require additional and suf-
cient sureties, which the contractor shall furnish
TO the acceptance Of the Postmaster General
within ten days after notice and In default thereof
the contract may be annulled.
The contract cannot in any case be lawfully
transferred or assigned.
Bids should be securely envsloped and sealed
marked PROPOSALS for Post Once Envelopes"
and addressed to the Third Assistant Postmaster
General, Post Office Department, Washington,
my22-Mt Postmaster General