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CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House,
May 2, 1868.

THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY,
the Ist Juno next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTAAOT for supplying (under separate Contracts) all
such quantities of
FRESH OX BEEF

as may be demanded for the use of Ii
and Vessels at the following places, fr
the 31st December, 186 S, both days inc
ENGLAND, &c.
Jersey and Guern-
sey
LittlehamptOn -
Liverpool "-
London Bridge to
Woolwich, in-
clusive
Lymingtott
Milford Haven.
Pembroke and
Pater
N etley
Newhaven
North Shields
Penzance

Berwick
Cowes
Dartmouth
Deal, and in the
Downs
Dover.
Exmouth
Falmouth
Fleetwood
Fowey
Gravesend
Greenhithe
Harwich
Holyhead
Hull,Hawkeßoads,
and in the Hum-
ber

Ler Majesty's Ships
•otn the Ist July to
laded, viz.:

Portland and Port-

Jand,Roads ---
Plyniehth -(Oxen)
-Portsmouth (d 9.)
Sheerness-, -:(do.)._
:Ramsgate
Scilly -
Southampton
Swansea
Torquay
Weymouth
Wivenhoe
Yarmouth (North)

Aberdeen
Ardrishaig
Granton

Queensforry

SCOTLAND.
Greenock
Leith, Leith Roads,
& Frith of Forth
ERELAND.
Bantry Kenmore
Belfast Kilrush
Buncrana (Lough Killibegs
Swilly) Kingstown and
Castletownsend Dublin
Crookhaven Lough Foyle
Foynes Mill Cove (Bore-
Galway haven)
N.B.—The Contractors aro to supply good, fat, well-fed
Ox Beef, as 'NO LIMPER MEAT will be admitted.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.

Queenstown and

Kinsale
Rathraullen
Valentia
Waterford
Westport

Particular attention is called to the revised conditions
of the Sheerness Contract, which is to include supplies to
all ships and vessels between Chatham and the Great
Nore, both inclusive; also the Naval Barracks at Sheer-
ness.

Parties Tendering for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Sheerness, are to specify in their Tenders a rate per 100
lbs. for live Oxon, delivered'in the usual manner; and also
a rate per 100 lbs. for fresh•Ox Beef, delivered in the car-
case, should the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
think proper to demand the Beef to be delivered in the car-
ease, instead of live Oxen, during any period of the con-
tract ; and no attention will be paid to any offers not so
made.

Separate Tenders must be made for each Port, and at a
rate per 1001bs., and no attenti.-1 will be paid to any offers
not so made. Contractors, in claiming payment for the
supplies of Beef, are to make oat their Invoices in Pounds
at per 1001bs.
The Cattle for Falmouth to be slaughtered on the spot,
and the Cattle for Portland to be slaughtered not farther
from that port than Weymouth ; the Contractors for
Portland and Dartmouth are also to deliver the Molt ou
board S.M.'s. ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Gravesend is to be a resident there.
The Contractor for Portland and Weymouth is to re-
side at Weymouth.
The Contractor for any of the other places is to reside
on the spot, or to have an Agent resident there, whose
name and address must be given on the Tender.
No tender will bo 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 be
necessary that the party tendering or an agent appointed
by him should attend at this Office, 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 be delivered at the Department of
the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House,
and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to becomo
bound with tt a person tendering in the sum of £1,500 for
the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer-
ness, Port mouth, Plymouth, and Queenstown and
Kinsale ; and in the sum of £3OO for each of the other
Contracts. _

Conditions of the Contracts may be seen in the Lobby
of the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi-
ralty, Somerset House, W.C. ; or by applying to the Super-
intendents of the Victualling Establishments at Deptford,
Gosport, and Plymouth ; the Superintendents of her Ma-
jesty's Dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and
Pembroke; the Agent for the Victualling at Haulbowline ;
the Officers conducting t, s Packet Service at Dover, Liver-
pool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, Dublin; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Gas-
toms at
Aberdeen

Belfast
Berwick

Greenock
Harwich
Hull
Jersey & Guernsey
Londonderry (for
Lough Foyle)
Newhaven
Penzance
Ramsgate
'asters at each of the 01
• may also be obtaine(
.e Department above a
t either of the above ph
to pay half the amoun
and Bonds.

Scilly
Shields
S wansea
Waterford
Westport
Wexford
Weymouth
Yarmouth

Cowes
Dartmouth

Falmouth
Fleetwood

Fowey -
Galway
And to the postni
Forms of Tender
at the Lobby of th(
the proper officer at
The Contractors

,her places.
1 on a?plication
ientioned, or to
ces.

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on their Contracts
By Order,
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