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CONTRACT FOR RUM.
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 31st October, 1866.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTIIIPG
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of ' the
DNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and 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 SWithin 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 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 Rum to be exempted from the Customs duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
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 be sent in pints for each import
nlark, and the average strength of each mark ex to
be stated, and not an average of different marks or strengths
of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not
to le 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
t?eePted 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
'ern 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
re day of treaty, and it will not be required-that the party
endering, 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
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-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.
By order, ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

T ° GUNM AK ER S and Others.
The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR is desirous of
receiving PROPOSALS from Gunmakers and Others for
BREECH-LOADING RIFLES, either repeating or not
.repeater
, which may replace the present Service Rifles in
suture manufacture.
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The following are the conditions considered essential in
military non-repeating Rifles:—
A. WEIGHT.
Not to exceed 91b. soz. without bayonet.

B. LENGTH.
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To be 51 inches, with short stock, measured from the
hollow of the butt-plate to muzzle. •
C. WEIGHT OF AMMUNITION MADE UP.
Must not exceed 61b. 4oz. for sixty rounds as packed for
service.

D. CARTRIDGES.
Must Carry their own ignition.
E. SIGHTS.

The foresight must be such as to admit of :a bayonet
fixed according to the present system.
F. STOCK.
Must be such as to carry a light metal cleanipg•rod, and
allow a sling to be used.

G. .
Mud RECOIL
not exceed that of the Enfield Rifle by more than
10 per cent.

•is. 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
11len, and of being manufactured in quantities and of uni-
'ono quality.
5. THE AMMUNITION AS A WHOLE.
Must be as little liable to injury by rough usage, damp,
1,1,11(1 exposure in all climates, as the Boxer cartridge for
lees converted Enfield rifle—also as little liable to acci-
li.9tal exlosion as th same cartridge, and as capable of
lag manpufactured ine large quantities, and of uniform
quality. is. CALIBRE.
Optional.
L. THE TWIST AND FORM OF GROOVE.
Optional.
Optional.