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MARINE BARRACK CANTEENTS AT PORTSMOUTH AND

PLYMOUTH.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset-house,
16th November, 1855.

NOTICE is hereby given, that on THURSDAY,
the 6th December next, at One o'clock, the CANTEEN in
the above•mentioned Barracks v ill be LET from the 31st December
next to the Ist January, 185 by order of the Lords t:ommiisioners
of the Admiralty.

No person' but of unexceptionable character, nor any person for
more than one Cwit-en, or who will not undertake bona tide 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 clue
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 licences to be paid by the 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 Masters at Pi rtsmoutb and Plymouth
The Christian and Surnames of two respectable persons, with their
Professions and Places of Abode who will Join the Tenant in exe-
cuting the Indenture of Lease as his sureties, must be inserted in the
Proposals. he Tenant is to pay half the value of the Stamps on
'he 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 Licence.

A printed Form of the Ten ler and Tndenture of Lease may be had
at this Office, or on application to the said Barrack Masters. No
Tencler 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
behal, should attend at the office on the day of treat, , as the result
of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him
and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left•hand corner the words " Tender for Marine Bar-
rack Canteen," and must also be delivered at the Office of the Comp-
troller for Victualling, at. Somerset-house.--
By the Muttuy-Act, Canteens are not liable to have Troops billeted
on them.

As the persons becoming Tenants of the Canteens 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 any remission or reduction under any circumstances what-
ever, they are hereby cautioned to make themselves fully acquainted
with the conditions of letting, prior to th,ir making a proposal.
The Rents of the Canteens as Tenements or Dwellings are to be
proposed at the sums stated below ; therefore the Giddings will
be upon what is offered for every Ten Men per Month, ex-
clusive of Sergeants occupying the Barrack, the number
being ascertained from the Barrack Master's Returns, made
up at Twelve o'clock at noon on the First day of every IMonth, and
no changes In the occupation of the Barracks which may take place
In the progress of the Month, either for or against the Tenant, will
he taken into acc,unt. No less number than Ten will be charged
against the Tenant, nor will any odd number be calculated— thus, if
the Barrack should be occupied by 144 men on the First day of the
Month, only 140 will be calculated fo,' that Month. The Bidders are
also desir.d to introduce no fractional parts of a Penny in their offers,
as they wi'l not he noticed, nor will any Tenders be noticed except
such as are strictly according to the Form furnished.
Portsmouth—MAßlNE ARTILLERY CANTEEN—tiff 0 0
Plymouth— CANTEEN stud SHOP .. •• .. 10 0 0