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CONTRACT FOR HADIMOOKS.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
louse, March 11, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD MGR ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND .do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
7th April next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for
supplying and delivering Into Store, at her Majesty's
Dockyard, at Deptford,
50,000 HAMMOCRS.
Patterns of the Hammocks, and a Form of the Tender
and Conditions of Contract; may be seen in the Lobby of
the. Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, &mop-
set house.

No Tender 'ill be received after Two o'clock on the
day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party
attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to tho Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
,4 Tender for Hammocks," and must also be delivered at
the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty,
Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two
responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the
person tendering in the sum of £25 per cent. on the value
for the due performance.of the. Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
• Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

CONTRACTS FOR VINEGAR AN D SOAP.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, 24th March, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDON of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give notice, that on THURSDAY, the
2d April next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will bo
ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Ma-
jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned
Articles, viz.:—
Quantities. To be Tendered for
at Rates.
VINEGAR 20,000 Gallons per 100 Galls.
SOAP 300,000 Pounds „ Pounds.
When to be Delivered.— One-half in One Calendar Month
from date of. Contract, and the remainder in One Calen-
dar Month 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 aro opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem lit,
or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any,
and also an unlimited power of selection in accepting the
Tenders.
Samples of the Vinegar (not less than a quart) which
the parties tendering may purpose to supply must accom-
pany their Tenders, as the delivery will bo required to be
made in accordance with the samples which may be ac-
cepted, and the Vinegar tendered is to be of No. 20 trade
denomination. The casks will bo supplied by the officers,
but are to be eent for and returned to the Victualling
Stores when filled by and at the expense of the Con-

tractor.
Samples of the Soap (not less than a bar) must be pro-
duced by the parties tendering.
No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates; and
Contractors in claiming payment of Articles supplied are
to make out their invoices in accordance therewith.
No Tender will bo 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 samplos are to be removed.
Every Tender must bo addressed to the Secretary cf the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the Depart-
rnent of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset
House,

By order, .
ANTONIO BRADY,
rtegifttaX 0 glAtaCtil and 1301913earitieg.

Her Majesty the Queen of Spain having-, by Royal de-
cree, under date of 19th of March, 1868, with the consent
of the Council of Ministers, authlris,,d the above Loan,
Messrs. Bischoffshehn and Goldschmidt have contracted
with the Spanish Government for the issue of such Loan,
au I are now prepared to receive subscriptions at their
Office, Founder's-court, Lothbury. •
By Art. 3 of the said Decree the Government of her
Majesty engages to pay the Interest and Sinking Fund of
this Loan, and by Art. 4 it secures it ou the revenues of
the Provinces of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine
Islands.

The Loan will be omitted in Bonds to bearer of £lOO,
.£3OO, and £l,OOO each, bearing interest at 8 per cent. per
annum, from the Ist September, 1868, with Coupons at-
tached, payable half yearly ou the Ist Alarch and the let.
September at the Offices of Messrs. Bischoffshehu and
Guldschuiidt, iu London.
The Bonds are by the Contract expressly exempted from
taxes or duties of every kind on the part of the Spanish
GoVernment, and they will be signed by a representative
of the Spanish Government, duly appointed for the pur-
pose.
By the operatiOn of a cumulative sinking fund the
Bonds will be repayable in fifteen years from Ist March,
1868.

The Bonds to be redeemed will be determined by half-
yearly drawings, in the presence of a Notary Public, in
January and July in each year; and the Bonds drawn
will be paid off at par, without any deduction, at the
Offices of Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, in Lon-
don, on the following Ist March and Ist September in
each year. The first drawing will take place in January,
1870. _ _ _

The price of emission is .£O3 per £lOO, payable as
follows :

..... .
On application .£s per cent.
On allotment l5 II
April 20
May 20 l5
Juno 21
July 20
August 20 £l3
Less Coupon for intermediate
Interest, deducting Income
Tax . 2 _ _

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£9l per cent.

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Subscribers may anticipate the above periods of pay-
ment, and receive a discounr at the rate of £4 per cent.
per annum.
In case of failure to pay any of tho above instalments
at the prescribed period, all previous payments will be
liable to forfeiture.

Application must be made in the annexed form, to the
Imperial Bank, Lothbury, accompanied by a deposit of
£5 per cent. on the amount applied for.
In case the allotment should not require the whole de-
posit the surplus will be returned.
Scrip Certificates will be delivered in exchange for the
Banker's receipt for the first instalment, which, will ba
exchanged for Bonds to b 3 issued as soon as possible
after payment of the last instalment.
Certified translations of the documents relating to this
Loan may be seen at the Offices of Messrs. Baxter, Rose,
Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Weitminster Abbey,
S.W.

Prospectuses and forms of application may be obtained
at the same place ; at Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Gold-
schmidt, Founder's-court; and at the Imperial Bank,
Lothbury, where all payments.are to be made.