The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-19 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TEA, AND TOBACCO.

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
. Services, Somerset House, 13th May, 1858.
IHE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland do Hereby Give Notice, that on FRIDAY, the 28th
instant, 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.:
SUGAR .... . . lOO tons.
TEA......... •. •• .••..•• • •• • ...... 50,000 lbs.
TOBACCO... 25 • • • .............. 25 tons.
When to be delivered—Half of each in three weeks, and the
remainder in three weeks afterwards, or earlier if 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 Ten-
ders 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 forany, and a,so an unlimited power of selection.
All the articles to be exempted from the Customs' Duties, and
parties tendering are to state where they are respectively lying.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and landing number
of each cask, the ship in which imported, and the country or place
of its growth or produce, and an average sample of sugar (not less
than 21b3., for each import mark) must be produced by the parties
tendering, and not an average of different marks or several imports,
anl any parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality as the samples tendered and accepted will be rejected by
the officers.

Samples of the Tea (not less than 21b5.,) from the Bonded Ware-
house, must be produced by the parties tendering.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade marks and
numbers, and the countries or places of Its growth or produce, and a
fresh drawn dock sample 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 he rejected by the officers.
The Samples produced by persons whose Tenders are not accepted
are requested to be taken away by them immediately after the Con-
tracts have been decided. . _ _

No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro-
vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at
the said Office, or to the officer conducting the Packet Service at
Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol.
The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular
attention is called, may be seen at the said office, and at Liver-
pool 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 received from each person will be
communicated to him and 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
and must also be delivered at Somerset-house.