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CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF.
Contract Dopartment, Admiralty, Somerset
• House, 30th May, 1867.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE' of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the

UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on Wednesday, the
12th June next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for supplying (under separate Contracts) all
such quantities of
FRESH OX BEEF

as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's shipss kad
vessels at the following places, from the Ist July tb‘the
31st December, 1867, both days included, viz.:—
ENGLAND, &c.
Ilfracombe
Jorsey and Guern-1
sey
Littlehampton
Liverpool
London Bridge to
Woolwich, inclu-
sive
Lymington
Milford Haven,
Pembroke, and
Pater
Netley
Newhaven

Berwick
Cowes
Dartmouth
Deal, and in the

Downs
Dover
Exmouth
Falmouth
Gravesend
Greenhithe
Harwich
Hastings
Holyhead
Hull, llawke Roads,
and in the Hum-
ber

SCOTLAND.

Granton • I Leith, Leith Road
Greenock andFrlthofFort
IRELAND.
Kilrush
Killibegs
Kingstown &Dubn.
Lough Foyle
Lough Swilly
UM Cove (Bore-
haven)

Bantry
Belfast

Carrickfergus

Castletomisend
Crookhaven

Penzance
Portland and Port-
land Roads
Plymouth (Oxen)
Portsmouth (do.)
Sheerness (do.)
Ramsgate
Scilly
Southampton
Swansea
Weymouth
Wivenhoe
Yarmouth (North)

Foynes
Galway
Kenmare

Is, I Queensferry
th SterneNtay

Queensfown and

Kinsale
Rathmullon
Valontia
Waterford
Westport

N.8.--The Contractors are to supply good, fat, well-fed
Ox-Beef, as no heifer meat will be admitted.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
Particular attention is called to the revised conditions of
the Sheerness Contract, which is to include supplies to all
ships and vessels between Chatham and the Great Nora,
both inclusive; also the Naval Barracks at Sheerness.
Parties Tendering. for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Sheerness, are to specify in their tenders a rate per 1001bs.
for live Oxen, delivered in the usual manner; and also a
rate per 1001b1 for fresh Os Beef, delivered in the carcase,
should the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty think
proper to demand the Beef to be delivered in the carcase,
instead of live Oxen, during any period of the contract,
and no attention will be paid to any offers not so made.
Separate Tenders must be made for each Port, and at a
rate per 1001bs., and no attention will be paid to any offers
not so made. Contractors, in claiming payment for the
supplies of Beef, are to make out their invoices in pounds at
per 1001bs.
The Cattle for Falmouth to be slaughtered on the spot,
and the Cattle for Portland to be slaughtered not farther
from that port than Weymouth ; the Contractors for Port-
land and Dartmouth are also to deliver the meat on board
ILM. ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Portland and Weymouth is to reside
at Weymouth.
The Contractor for any of the other places is to reside on
the spot, or to have an Agent resident there, whose name
and address must be given in the Tender.
Conditions of the Contracts may be seen in the Lobby
of the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, W.C. ; or by applying to the
Superintendents of the Victualling Establishments at
Deptford, Gosport, and Plymouth ' • the Superintendents of
her Majesty's Dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheer-
uesq, and Pembroke; the Agent for the Victualling at
Haulbowline the Officers conducting the Packet Service at
Dover, Liverpool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the
Postmaster-General, Dublin; to the Collectors of her
Majesty's Customs at

Belfast
Berwick

Cowes

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lJerEey & Guernsey!Scilly

Dartmouth
Falmouth

Galway

Greenock
Harwich