The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-18 00:00:00

CONTRACTS FOR OATS, SOAP, AND TOBACCO

Department of the Comptroller for Victualling
and Transport Services,
Somerset House, 15th February, 1851.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the
-I- OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED
RINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN •and IRELAND, DO
HEREBY GIVE NOTICE. That on THURSDAY, the 28th
inst., at half-past One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for
supplying e.nd delivering into • her Majesty's Victualling
Stores at Deptford the undermentioned articles, viz.:—
OATS 5OO Quarters.
SOAP lOO Tons.
TOBACCO 5O 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
ay: tides.

Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the
Tenders are opened, of contracting either 'for the whole, or
or such Dart thereof only- as they may (Deem fit, or for a
greater quantity, or of not contracting for• any, and also an
uolhnited power of selection.
The Tobacco to be exempted from the Customs duties, and
parties tendering are to state where it is lying.
Samples of the Oats (not less than Two Quarts), and of the
EQ4 (not less than a Bar) must be produced by the parties
towering.
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
Package
or package that is found net to be of the same mark,
'number
umber, or quality as theofficers sample tendered and accepted, will
b rejected by the .
The samples produced by persons whose tenders are not ac-
coPted are requested to be taken away by them immediately
after the contracts have been decided.

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No Tender will be received unless made on the printedform
urovided for the purpose. and which may be obtained on ap-
Plication at the said Office,, or to the officer conducting the
acket Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at
Paicular attention is called the recent modification of
the conditions of the Contracts.to which may be seen at the
said Office, and at Liverpool 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 offerreceived
from each person will be communicated to him and his pro-
Posed sureties in writing.

Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Ten-
der for ;" and must also be delivered at Somerset-
house.

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