The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-19 00:00:00

Queenstown and

Bantry Kenmore
Belfastlrush
Buncrana (Lough Killibegs
S willy) Kingstown and
Castleto wnsend Dublin
Crookhaven Lough Foyle
Foynes Mill Cove (Betel
Galway haven) I
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 au 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
Nora, 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 Os 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-
case, instead of live Oxen, during any period of the con-
tract ; and no attention will bo 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 Meat on
board H. M.'s. ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Gravesend is to be a resident there.
The Contractor for Portland and Weymouth is to re-
aide 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 be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of Treaty, norany 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 tendering in the sum of £1,500 for
the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer-
ness, Portsmouth, 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 the Packet Service at Dover, Liver-
pool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster-
tieneml,• Dublin ; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Gus•
toms at
Aberdeen Scilly
Belfast Shields
Berwick Swansea
Cowes Waterford
Dartmouth Westport
Falmouth Wexford
Fleetwood Weymouth
Fowey Yarmouth
Galway
And to the poste
Forms of Tendei
at the Lobby of th
the proper officer at
The Contractors
on their Contracts I
By Order,
Regisl

Kinsale
Rathmullen
Valentia
Waterford
Westport

Greenock
Harwich
Hull
Jersey & Guernsey
Londonderry (for
Lough Foyle)
Newhaven
Penzance
Ramsgate
casters at each of the other places.
c may also be obtained on anlication
,e Department above mentioned, or to
t either of the above places.
to pay half the amount of the Stamps
and Bonds.

ANTONIO BRADY,
drar of Contracts and Public Securities,