The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-04 00:00:00

JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, za, Piccadilly.

CONTRACTS FOR SOAP, IV HEAT,AND TEA.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 28th November, 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
11th December next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will bo
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, the under-
mentioned Articles, viz. :

Quantities.

To be tendered for at
Rates.

SOAP 300,000 Pounds por 100 Pounds.

When to be Delivered.—llalf in cue Calendar month
from date of Contract, and the remainder in one Calendar
month afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the party ten-
dering.
WHEAT.. 15,000 Bushels per 100 Pounds.

TEA. ..... —lOO,OOO Pounds Per Pound.

Whon to bo Delivered.—One-half of each in Three
Weeks from date of Contract, and the remainder thereof 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.

Separate Tenders are to be made for each article.
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 deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an
unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
The Tea to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Samples of the Soap (not less than a bar), and of the
Wheat (not less than 2 quarts), must be produced by the
parties tendering.
Each Tender for Tea must specify the import mark and
number of each parcel, the ship in which imported, the
dock or warehouse where lying, and must be accompanied
by an average sample (not loss than 2 lbs.) of each parcel.
Tenders failing in any of these conditions will not be en-
tertained.
No Wheat tendered is to be of less weight than 60 lbs.
per bushel.
No Tenders Rill bo received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates; and
Contractors in claiming payment for articles supplied are
to make out their invoices in accordance therewith, both as
to quantities and rates, excepting those for Wheat, which
are to be in pounds, at per 100 pounds.
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 House.
Particular attention is called to the conditions of the
Contracts, which may be seen in the said Lobby. No
Tender will ho 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, when, but not before,
the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender ," and must also be delivered at the De-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order
ANTONIO BRADY,'
Re6istrar of Contracts and Public Socuritios,