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CONTRACT FOR RUM.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 31st October, 1866.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
-4- the OFFICE of HIGH ADMIRAL the
'UNITED KINGDOM ofLORb GREAT BRITAIN andof IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that, on MONDAY, the
12th November next, at Twelve 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 Majesty's
Victualling Stores at Deptford,
When to be delivered.
Fifty Thousand Gallons of RUM Within Three Weeks
from date of Contract.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Rum.
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 (hem fit, or for
a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also
an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
The Rum to be exempted from the Customs duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is
Payment for the Rum will be made for the proof gallons
to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being ascer-
tained to the half gallon.
Samples of the Rum are to bo sent in pints for each import
mark, and the average strength of each mark ex to
be stated, and not an
average of different marks or strengthi
of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not
to be of the same quality, mark, or average strength of the
sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the
officers.
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not
accepted are requested to be taken away by them imme-
diately after the Contract has been decided.
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 or Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House.
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 in
Writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De-
Rartment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
nomerset House..
By order, ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

To GU N M -A- KE R S and Others.
The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of
BREECH-LOADING
PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for
zREECLI-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not
repeating which may replace the present Service Rifles in
future manufacture.

11.
The following are the conditions considered essential in
Military non-repeating Rifles

A. WEIGHT.
Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet.

m LENGTH.
To be 51 inches, with short stook, measured from the
hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle.
c. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP.
Must not exceed 6lb. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for
service.

D. CARTRIDGES.
Must carry their own ignition.
B. SIGHTS.
The foresight must be such as to admit of:a bayonet
fixed according to the present system.

STOK
Must be such as to carry a light. metal cleaning-rod, and
allow a sling to be used.

G. RECOIL.
•
Must not exceed that of tho Enfield Rifle by more than
10 per cent.
H. THE ARM AS A WHOLE.
Must be as little liable to injury bylong-continued firing,
rough usage, and exposure, as the naval rifles converted to
breech-loaders on the Snider system. To be as capable,
also, of being used without accident by imperfectly trained
Iflloeo,
qand oflity being manufactured in quantities and of uni-
rra ua.
I. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE.
Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp,
an(Lexposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for
dui ler's converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci-
dental explosion as tho same cartridge, and as capable of
'log manufactured in large quantities, and of uniform
quality. x. CALIBRE.
Optional.
Opt L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE.
ional.
Optional.