The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-28 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR STAVES AND IRON HOOPS.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, June 24, 1867.
COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY,
the 11th July next, at T welve o'clock at noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for Supplying and Delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, Gosport, and Ply-
mouth, the undermentioned articles, viz.:—

DEPTFORD.
Baltic Pipe Staves (New Fresh)
Do. Hogshead do. do.
Quebec Pipe Staves do.
Fiumo Barrel Staves do.

New Iron Butt Hoops.

Do. Stout Plato Hoops

Do. Slight Plate Hoops

Now Iron Stout Plate
Hoops

Do. Slight Plato Hoops

P.
Nov Iron Butt Hoops..

Do. Stout Plate Hoops -'

'6 9
6
5 11

Wire. Width.
Gauge. In.

13

.., 13 ... 11 ...

15 ...
14 11

... 15 ... 1} ...

... 15 ... 1} ...

.. 15 ... 11 ..
ORT.

14

• 15
-. 15 ... 1
... 13 -. 11 ...
_. 13 ... 11

Quantity.
No.
45,000
~.. 37,000

r 44,800
[24,455
28,000
8,760
14,562
5 3,192

1 2,900
4,810

5,900

{ 5,200
5,000
9,600

_ .
One-half of each of the said quantities to be delivered
within two months from the date of the acceptance of the
Tender, and the remainder within two months afterward;
or earlier if preferred by the party tendering.
The Staves are to be tendered for at per 100 No., and
the Iron Hoops at per I,ooolb.
Tenders may bo made for the whole or any portion of
the articles, but separate tenders must be made for each
port, and no attention will bo paid to any offers not so
made.

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 in accepting the tenders.
Samples of the articles may be seen at the Victualling-
yards at Deptford, Gosport, and Plymouth.
No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates ; and
contractors in claiming payment for supplies are to make
out their invoices in accordance therewith, both as to
quantities and rates.

No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained
on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, and' at
the Victualling-yards at Gosport and Plymouth.
Particular attention is called to the conditions of the
contracts, which may be seen in the said Lobby, and at the
Victualling-yards at Gosport and Plymouth.
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 received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in wilting.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-band corner the words
"Tender for ," and must also be delivered
at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House.
By order, ANTONIO BRADY,
Register of Contracts and Public Securities.

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