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MARINE BARRACK CANTEEN AT WOOLWICH.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-house,
14th May, 1855.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on THURSDAY,
the 24th instant, at One o'clock, the CANTEEN in the
above Barrack will be LET froth the Ist June next to the let June
1858, by order of the Lords oommissioners of the Admiralty.
No person but of unexceptionable character, or who will not un-
dertake bona fide to reside in or occupy the Canteen, and conduct the
business thereof in his own person, will be approved ; and two
sureties will be required for the regular payment of the rent, and of
all sums which may become due in respect of the said Canteen, and
for the due performance of the several conditions and stipulations
of the indenture of lease.. The revenue or other licenses to be paid
by thh tenant.
The person whose proposal shall be accepted, and his sureties, must
execute an Indenture of Lease and Covenants relating thereto, the
particulars whereof may be known by applying to this Office, or to
the Barrack Master at Woolwich
The Christian and Surnames of two respectable persons, with their
Professions and Places of A bode who will Join the Tenant in exe-
cuting the Indenture of Lease as his Sureties, must be inserted in the
Proposals. The Tenant is to pay half the value of the Stamps on
the Indenture of Lease upon executing the same, and it is to be un-
derstood that the said Commissioners will not undertake to procure
the Tenant a License.
A printed Form of the Tender and Indenture of Lease may be had
at this Office, or on application to the said Barrack Master. No
Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of Treaty, and
it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his
beha-f, should attend at the office on the day of treatr, as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him
and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,-
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Marine Bar-
ra •Ic Canteen," and must also be delivered at the Office of the Comp-
troller for Victualling, at Somerset-house.
By the Mutiny Act, Canteens are not liable to have Troops billeted
on them.
As the person becoming Tenant of the Canteen will be bound to the
strict performance of the Covenants of the Indenture of Lease, and
to the full payment of the Rent and Privilege of Sale to the Troops,
without ant- remission or reduction under any circumstances what-
ever, he is hereby cautioned to make himself fully acquainted with
the conditions of letting, prior to his making a proposal.
The Rent of the Canteen as a Tenement or Dwelling is to be
proposed at the sum stated below ; therefore the 'Giddings will
be upon what is offered for every Ten Men per Month, ex-
dtrive of Sergeants occupying the Barrack, the number
being ascertained from the Barrack Master's Returns, made
m• at Twelve o'clock at noon on the First day of every Month, and
no changes in the occupation of the Barrack which may take place
In the progress of the Month, either for or against the Tenant, will
he taken into account. No less number than Ten will be charged
ago hist the Tenant, nor will any odd Number be calculated— thus, if
the Barrack should be occupied by 145 men-on the First day of the
Month, only 140 will be calculated for that NI (nth. The Bidders are
also desired to introduce no fractional parts of a Penny in their offers,
as they will not be noticed, nor will any Tenders be noticed except
such as are strictly according to the Form furnished.
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