The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-06 00:00:00

CONTRACTS• FOR SALT PORK.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 10th Sept., 1868.
riIHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
1 the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, Do hereby give Notice that ou TUESDAY, the
13th October 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 Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at the undermentioned Ports
the following quantities of
SALT PORK,

all of the cure of the present season, viz. :
Navy Pork
DEPTFORD.. ... ... . ......... 4,800 tierces 4,800 harrels.
HAULBOWLINE ... ... .. 1,800: „ 1,800 ,
Each tieree,of,Pnrk to cont.* 75 pieces of 41b. each, and
each, barrel iO, pieces of. Ilbs. each, iustead of the number
of pieces forMerly contained in the tierces and barrels.
The Pork to be delivered into the respective Stores as
follows, viz.—one-third of each quantity for each place by
the 15th day of Sanuary, 1869; another third thereof by
the sth' day or March, 1869 ; 'and the remainder thereof by
the 30th day of April, 1869; or any greater portion, or the
whole, at any earlier period, if preferred by the party ten-
dering, and to be paid for by bills at three days after date,
which will be sent to parties as usual.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the -treaders are opened, of contracting either for 'the
whole, or for such part thereof only as they may doom fit,
or for a greater quantity, or, of not contracting for any,
and also au unlimited power of selection in accepting the
Tenders.
Every Tender must specify the name of the person by
whom the Meat is intended to, be cured, the Brand of the
Meat, and the place of cure.
Tenders'-for Pork of the cure of the United States of
America will not be admitted.
Persons tendering for More than one Port must give a
separate Tender for each Port.
Persons tendering must give a reference to a Banker for
each surety proposed ; and they aru desired to take special
notice that the use of Wooden Hoops is abolished, aad that
Iron Hoops only will be required for the Casks iu accord-
ance with the conditions of the Contract.
A Form of the Tender may le3 obtained, and the recently
altered conditions of the Contract, to which particular at-
tention is called, may be seen in the Lobby of the Depart-
ment of the Controller of Victualling, Somerset House ; at
the Victualling Yards at Govort and Plymouth; or by ap-
plying to the Victualling Storekeeper at Haulbowline; or
to the Collectors of her Misjesty'is Customs at Bristol, Lime-
rick, Belfast, Waterford, and Newry; or to the Secretary
to the Postmaster-General at Dublin; or to the Comman-
der conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool.
No Tender will be admitted for a less quantity than 100
tierces, or 100 barrels.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the
printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not bo
necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed
by him, should attend, as the result of the offer received
from each person will be communicated to him and to his
proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must bo addressed to the. Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner of the enve-
lope the words "Tender for Salt Pork," and must also be
delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victual-
ling, Somerset House.
The Contractors will have to pay one-half the amount
of the stamps on the Contracts and Bonds.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

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recommendation.

HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.

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