The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-24 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR TEA, SPLIT PEAS, OATS, SOAP,
TOBACCO, AND VINEGAR.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset-house, 21st July, 1860.
PHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-I- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on THURSDAY, the 2d
August next, at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to
treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at DEPTFORD, the undermentioned Articles, viz.:
TEA 100,000 lbs.
SPLIT PEAS BOO quarters.
OATS 3OO „
SOAP 2OO tons.
T08ACC0...., 5O „
When to be delivered.—Half of each in Three Weeks, and
the remainder in Three Weeks afterwards, or earlier if pre-
ferred by the party tendering.
VINEGAR 20,000 gallons.
Half in One Month, and the remainder in One Month
afterwards, or earlier it preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the
articles.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the
Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole or for
such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater
quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited
power of selection.
The Tea and Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs
Duties, and parties tendering are to state where they are re-
spectively lying.
Samples of the Split Peas and Oats (not less than two
quarts of each), of the Tea (not less than two pounds from the
bonded warehouse), and of the Soap (not less than a bar),
must be produced by the parties tendering
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countrietor places of its growth
or produce, and a fresh drawn dock simple of each cask or
package must be produced by the parties tendering, and any
cask or package that is found not to be of the same mark,
number, or quality as the sample tendered and accepted, will
be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Vinegar (not less than a quart) which the
parties tendering may purpose to supply must accompany
their Tenders, as the delivery will required to be made in ac-
cordance with the samples which may be accepted, and the
Vinegar tendered to be No. 20, trade denomination.
The Vinegar to be delivered in good, sound, strong, and
substantial casks, which are to be retained as long as required
by the said Commissioners or their 'officers without payment
thereof, but are to be taken back from the said Victualling
stores (when emptied), by and at the expense of the con-
tractor.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not
accepted, are requested to be taken away by them immedi-
ately after the contracts have been decided.
NoTender will be received unless made on the Printed Form
provided for the purpose ; and which may be obtained on ap-
plication at the said Office, or to the officer conducting the
Packet service at Liverpool, or the collector of Customs at
Bristol.
Particular attention is called to the recent modifications of
the Conditions of the Contract, which may be seen at the
said Office, and at Liverpool and Bristol.
No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on
the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party
tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the
Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer re-
ceived from each person will be communicated to him and his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressedb to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Ten-
der for ," and must also be delivered at Somerset-
house.