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CONTRACT FOR WHEAT.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling,
Somerset House, 6th December. 1856.
" HE Commissioners for Executing the Office of
X Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
alit Ireland do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the 18th
ionsilt, at Ono o'clock, they will tie ready to treat with such persons
Whoa)" he willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her
Ysiestrt Victualling stores at Deptford.
When to be delivered.
Quarters. Half in a fortnight, and the remainder
tHEAT.......... 2,000 in a fortnight afterwards, or earlier
if preferred by the party tendering.
Tendert; may be made for the whole or any portion of the
Wheat, and their Lordships reserve to themselves the power,
when the teniers are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or
for such
tart thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quan-
tity, or tf not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of
selection,

A Preinrtional part of the price per bushel cf Wheat will be paid
for any 'weight exceeding 60 lbs. per bushel.
Samples (not less than 2 quarts), must be produced by the parties
tenderinr.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the con-
tract has been decided.
No tender will be received unless made an the printed form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, coiducting the Packet Service
at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the revised contract, to which particular atten-
tion is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liverpool and
Bristol.
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
kis behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the
result of the offer received from ea.% person will be communicated
to him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every tender must be addressedto the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words'' Tender for Wheat," and
must also be delivered at Somerset House.