The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR RU H.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
• House, June 11, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIR A.L of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN arid IRE-
LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on WEDNESDAY,
the 24th inst., 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 Deptford,

0,000 Gallons of RUM,
to be delivered within three weeks front date of Con•
triLet.

Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the Rum.
All the casks, except such as may be required for her
Majesty's service, aro to be tiken away from the said
stores by and at the expense of the party whose Tender
is accepted.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or of 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.
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 Gal-
lons to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being as-
certained to the half gallon.
Sample of the Rum to be 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
strengths 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 re-
jected by the officers.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
appliciition in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the Conditions of the Contract may be seen.
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 received 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 for Rum," and must also be delivered at the De-
partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.
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By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contractf and Public Securities,

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Ilenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about I,OQO friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee me deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the kart of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Baeclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DdrlL. CQ E9c,
45, quo avitreot, Cheapside;

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