The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-12 00:00:00

FRESH' OX BEEF

as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships
and Vessels at the following places, from the Ist July to
the 31st December, 1868, both days included, viz.:
ENGLAND, &c.

Berwick
Cowes
Dartmouth
Deal, and in thel

Jersey and Guern-1

Portland and Port-

sey
Littlehampton
Liverpool
London Bridge to
lAroolwicla, in-
ciusfie • • -
Lymington
Milford haven;
Pembroke and
Pater..'
Netlev,
. .
Newhaven
North Shields
Penzance

land Roads - -
Plymouth (Oxen)
Portsmouth (do.)
Sheerness (do.)
Ramsgate
S`cilly •-• .• F_
Southampton
Swansea
Torquay
,Weymouth
Wivenhoe ' •
yarmouth (North)

Downs
Dover
"ticmonth
Falmouth.
Fleetwood
Fowey
Gravesend
Greenhithe
Harwich
Holyhead
Hull,Hawkeßonds,
and in the Hum-
ber

SCOTLAND.

Aberdeen
Ardrishaig
Granton

f Greenock j Qucensferry
Leith, Leith Roads, '
& Frith of Forth
[RELAND.
Kentnare
Kilrush

Bantry
Belfast

Queenstown and

.
Buncrana (Lough' Killibegs
Swilly) Kingstown and
Castletownsend Dublin _

Kinsale
Rathmullen
Valentia
Waterford
Westport

Crookhaven Lough Foyle
Foynes Mill Cove (Bare-
Galway haven)
N.B.—The Contractors are to supply good, fat, well-fed
Ox Beef, AS NO HEIFER MEAT will be admitted.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to
themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting
the Tenders.
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
Afore, 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 Oxen, 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 cat-
case, 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 attention will be paid to any offers
not so made. Contractors, in claiming payment for the
supplies of Beef, are to make out 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 Me ou
board H. M.'s. ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Gravesend is to he 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.
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 the Packet Service at Dover, Liver-
pool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-
General, Dublin ; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Gus-
toms at

Aberdeen
Belfast
Berwick

I Groonock
Harwich
I Hull

Scilly
Shields

Cowes Jersey Sr Guernsey
Dartmouth Londonderry (for
Falinouth Lough Foyle)
Fleetwood Newhaven

S wansea
Waterford
Westport
Wexford
Weymouth
Yarmouth

Fowey I
Penzance
Galway Ramsgate
And to the postmasters at each of the other places.
Forms of Tender may also be obtained on application
at the Lobby of the Department above mentioned, or to
the proper officer at either of the above places.
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 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 become
bound with the person tenderin,, in the sum of £1,500 for
the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer-
ness, Port-mouth, Plymouth, and Queenst3wn and
Kinsale ; and in the sum of £3OO for each of the other
Contracts.

The Contractors to pay half the amount of the Stamps
on their Contracts and Bonds.
By Order, ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.