The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-21 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR WHEAT, PEPPER, RAISINS,
AND SUGAR.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House,
April 18, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE OF LORD lIIGII ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY,
the 4th May 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-
josty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
articles, viz.:

To be tendered
Quantities. for at rates.
WHEAT
PEPPER
RAISINS 50,000 „
S UGAR 500,000
When to be delivered—One half of each quantity in
three weeks from the date of Contract, and the remainder
thereof in three weeks afterwards (or earlier if preferred
by the party tendering).
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the articles.

Separate Tenders are to be made for each article.
Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole,
or fur 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 select: .n in accepting the Tenders.
The Pepper, Raisins, and .sugar to be exempted fr m
the Customs duties, and parties tendering are to state
where they are lying.
Samples of the Wheat (not less than 2 quarts), of the
Pepper (not less than 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 land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and the country or place o? its growth or produce,
and an average sample (not less than 21bs. for each import
mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not
an average of different marks or several imports, and any
parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average
quality 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 those for wheat, which
are to be in pounds, at per D'O 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 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 ," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

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