The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-27 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR WHEAT, PEPPER, RAISINS,
AND SUGAR..

Contract Department, Mtuinilty, Somerset House,
April 18, 1868.

MITE COMNIISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE OF LORD lIIGII ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND do hereby (live Notice, that on MONDAY,
the 4th May next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
bo ready to treat with such porsons as may bo willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ml-
josty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
articles, viz.:

Quantities. To be tendered •
for at rates.
WHEAT
1
PEPPER
15,01)1) Pounds Per 100 lbs.
RAISINS 50,000 „
S UGAR . 500,000 ~
When to be dolivered—Ono half of each quantity in
three weeks from the date of Contract., and the remainder
thereof in throe weeks afterwards (or owlier,if preferred
by the party tendering).
Tenders may be made for tho whole or any portion of
the articles.

Separate Tenders are to ho mado for each article
Their Lordships reserve to thentsolves.the power, when.
the Tenders are opouod, 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
an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders.
The Pepper, Raisins, and Sugar to be exempted fr ui
tho Customs duties, and parties tendering are to state
where they aro lying.

Samplesi of the Wheat (not less than 2 quarts), of the
Pepper (not less tha,n-21bs.), and of the Raisins (not less
than 31bs.), must be produced by the parties tendering.
Each Tender for Sugar must specify the mark and lend-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and the country or place of its growth or produce,
and an average sample (not less than 21bs. for each import
mark) must bo produced by the parties tendering, and not
an average of different marks or several imports, and any
parcel that is found not to bo of the same mark or average
duality as the samples tendered and accepted, will be re-
jected by the officers.
No Wheat tendered is to be of less weight than 601 b. per
bushel.

No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates ; and
Contractors in claiming payment for articles supplied are
to make out their invoices in accordance therewith, both
as to quantities and rates, excepting thoso for wheat, which
are to be in pounds, at per I.' 0 pounds.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained
on application -in •the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions.of the Coniract 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 Clay 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 aro to be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of
the Admiralty, and bear in the left-band corner the words
" Tender for ," and must also bo delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admir►lty,
Somerset House.

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