The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-09 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR TOBACCO.

CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET
HOUSE, May 4, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
tho OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the
20th instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready
to treat with such persons as may bo willing to CON-
TRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford,

TOBACCO, 100,000 Pounds. To be tendered for at a
rate par 100 Pounds.

One-half to be delivered in three weeks from date of
Contract, and the remainder thereof in three weeks after-
wards ; or earlier if preferred by the party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Tobacco.

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 iu accepting the Tenders.
The Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs' Duties,
and parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Each Tender for Tobacco must sp3cify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries or places of ite
growth or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each
cask or package must be produced by the parties tender-
ing ; 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.
The Samples produced by persons* woose Tenders ara
not accepted are to be taken away by them immediately
after the Contract has been decided.
No Tenders will be received unless nilde in accordance
with the above denomination of quantity and rate ; and
contractors in clairqing paytueut are to make out their in-
voices in accordance therewith. -

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No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
Form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset llouse.
Particular attention is called to the Conditions of the
Contract, which may be seen in the said lobby. No
Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon 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
to 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 Tobacco," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Coo tracts and Public Securities.

ENTRANTS IN 1867 PARTICIPATE IN FIFTH DIVISION OF
PROFITS.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY.
PROFITS APPLIED SO AS TO MAKE POLICIES PAYABLE IN
LIFETIME.
AND SO AS TO RAISE SECOND CLASS LIVES, AFTER A
DEFINED PERIOD, TO FIRST CLASS RATES.
BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
4, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
George Thomas Dale, Esq., Bayswater.
Edmund Dunn, Esq., Croydon.
William Gover, Esq., Blackheath.
William Sutton Gover, Esq., 4, Queen-street-place.
John Middleton Hare, Esq., Forest Hill.
Fountain John Hartley, Esq., Dalston.
John Smither, Esq., Wellclose-square.
Joseph Warmington, Esq., Lee-grove, Blackheath.
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND ACTUARY.
William Sutton Gover, Esq., F.S.S.:
AUDITORS.
Mr. Deputy Obbard, Blackheath.
Charles Brown, Esq., Waddon.
William George Lemon, Esq., Blackheath
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
PHYSICIAN.
William Munk, Esq., M.D., F.S.A. (Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians of London), 40, Finsbury-square.
SURGEON.
Thomas Carr Jackson, Esq. (Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital,
King's-cross), 3, Weymouth-street, Portland-place.

Re
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PoliciesßEß T
In the pastEtXhilva
Reported in 1865, 1,650, amounting to £270,736; 1866,
2,073, £353,700; 1867, 2,845, £501,175. Total Number,
6,568, amounting to £1,125,611. effected were
The New Annual Premiums of past year, £15,318.
In the Four Triennial Periods the New Policies issued
were—First Three Years, 3,196, for £507,060; Second
Three Years, 2,926, for £494,066 ; Third Three Years,
3,941, for £629,547 ; Fourth Three Years, 6,568, for
£1,125,611. Total, 16,631, for £2,756,281.
So that the New Business of the last Three Years has
been greater than that of the preceding Six Years.
The Policies in force this day aro 11,637 in Number,
amounting to £1,980,258.
The Death Claims and Bonuses paid in the year under
67 polices amounted to £14,199.
The amount paid for Death Claims, and Bonuses paid
since the establishment of the Company,
.under 399 Policies,
is £64,447.
The ACCUMULATED FUND has been increased
during the Year by no less than Twenty-eight Thousand
Nine Hundred and Nine Pounds, making the amount laid
by in the last three years, Sixty-tive Thousand Nine
Hundred and Seventy-Eight Pounds, and now amounts to
One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Nine Hundred
and Seventy-eight Pounds Sterling. The Accumulated
Fund has thus been nearly doubled at the end of each
triennial period.
A Reversionary Bonus of 11, por Cent. per annum on
Sums Assured under Participating Policies was declared.