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London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR COCOA.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, 3d. Jan., 1854.
THE Cornmi.•••oners for Eiecuting the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the'United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, do Heiebi Give Notice, that on'Tnussnmr, the 26th
instant, at One o'cloill, they will 'be ready' to treat with such i
persons as may. be willing to contract for supplying and delivering
into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD,
Tons. Half
inW larmnotonthb,eadnedlivtheered.
remain-
COCOA .. ~...... .... ... .103 der in a month afterwards, or
earlier if preferred by the party
tendering.
The Cocoa to be exempted from the Customs Duties. .
Tenders will not be received for a less quantity than 10 tons,
Samples (not less than 21bs.) must be produced by the parties ten-
dering.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders axe not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con-
tracts have been decided.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, at -the office of Com-
mander Bevis, at Liverpool, and of the Collector of Customs at Bris-
tol. No tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of
treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for
him, duly authorised in writing. ,
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Cocoa,"
and mast also be delivered at Somerset-Place, and must be accom-
panied by a letter signed by two responsible tersons, engaging to
become bound with the per Son tendering in the sum of 201. per cent.
on the value, for the due performance of the contracts.

ONE HUNDRED and TWENTY-SIXTH
SALE.—CUSTOM-HOUSE, London, January, 1854.—F0r
SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commissioners of her Ma-
jesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing-lane, on
MONDAY, 16th, TUESDAY. 17th, WEDNESDAY, 18th, THURS.
19th, FRIDAY, 20th, and on MONDAY, 23d January, 1854, at
12 o'clock: at noon precisely, the following GOODS for home
consumption, viz.:-Artificial flowers, agate ornaments, bags,
carpet ; braces, brandy, brooches, bronze figures, &c. ; braid,
black lace, beads of metal, Bombay work, books, boxes—
cartonage, brass, snuff. &c. ; buttons, blinds, cotton gloves
and stockings, candelabra, calf hides, caskets, &c. ; copper,
coffee, cambric handkerchiefs, embroidered ; curtains, muslin, chess-
men,
cleaning powder, clocks —marble, ormolu, bronze, &c.; clocks,
wooden, &c.; cordials, china ware jars, &c. ; Daguerreotype plates,
frames, &c.; dressing cases, embroidered muslin, furniture, viz.,
inlaid tables; fusee boxes, fire-arms, &c., gloves, (cotton), gaiters
(silk), globes for lamps, Geneva, hand screens, hair guards, hair
cloth for chairs, chessmen, jewellery, viz , bracelet slides (mock),
jewel caskets, brooches and brooch pins, studs, &c., buckles, chains,
agate ornaments, chatelaine ditto, Berlin; lamp globes, wicks, Soc.;
lametta, lacquered ware, lace, meerscham pipes, Soc., millinery, musi- ,
cal instruments, viz., violins; needlework, viz., habits, collars,muslin
curtains, handkerchiefs, &c. ; ornaments, bronze, &c. ; olives, opera
glasses, pillow lace and silk, paper weights, perfumery, perfumed
spirits, pictures, paper, porte-moanaies, Soc., porcelain, coloured,
Dresden, &c.; palm oil, pipes, bowls, tubes, stems, So:. ;
pomatum, poplin, rum, segars, succades, &c. ; stockings,
cotton ; segar cases, holders; stays and staybacks, shawls,
wove, woollen, &c. ; Swiss woodwork, spirits, plain and
mixed ; silk manufactures, viz., hand screens, Barege shawls, poplin.
msntles, braces, gaiters, braid, waistcoating, &c. ; steel fringes,
slides, beads, brooches, bracelets, &c. ; straw Cordonnet. trimming,
&c.; sugar, tallow, tea, table covers, veneers, walnut ; watches, gold,
and silver; watch springs, &c.; woolcombs, woodwork (Swiss);
wooden carved figures, wine, waistcoating, zinc manufactures, and
various other goods. For exportation, or for home consumption, on
payment of the duties; books, earthenware, sugar, rice, tamarinds,
saccades, pepper, coffee, spirits, tea, wine, silk manufactures, em-
broidery, &c , &c. For exportation only : tea, wine, spirits, &c.
For the bend". of the crown : spirits, wine, boats, old rope, stores,
telescopes, cases, &c. The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's
warehouse, Cnstom-house, Thames-street ; at the London, St. Kathe-
rine, East and West India Docks ; and Tobacco Ground, Rotherhithe
on Thursday, the 12th, Friday, the 13th, and Saturday, the 14th of
January, 1854, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in
the afternoon, and on the days of sale, from ten o'clock in the morn-
ing until twelve o'clock at noon.—Take notice, that goods sold at
this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day
on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office
of the Receiver of Fines, after two o'clock in the afternoon, and that
on the days of sale money will not be received by the Receiver of
Fines after eleven o'clock in the forenoon.—Catalogues may be had
at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-house, Thames-street, one shilling
each.

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