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CONTRACT FOR PLATE GLASS.

Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset
House, May 6, 1868.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
.L the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
26th instant, 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
several Dockyards, all such quantities of

PLATE GLASS
as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for
twelfe months certain, and further until the expiration of
three months' warning.
The average annual expenditure for the last three years
may be ascertained, and a Form of the Tender, a Schedule
of the Articles, and Conditions of Contract'may bo obtained
at the above Department.
No Tender will 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 bo addressed to the Secretary of tho
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
" Tender for Plate Glass," and must also be delivered at the
Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somer-
set House, accompanied by a letter signed by two respon-
sible persons, engaging to become bound with the person
tendering in the sum of £l,OOO for the due performance of
the Contract.

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

CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF.
Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House,
May 2, 1868.

THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING-
-1- the OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of
the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and
IRELAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY,
the Ist June next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will
be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to
CONTRACT' for supplying (under separate Contracts) all
such quantities of

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.:

Berwick
Cowes
Dartmouth
Deal, and in the

ENGLAND, &c.
Jersey and Guern-
soy
Littlehatnpton
Liverpool
London Bridge to
Woolwich, in-
clusive
Lymington
Milford Haven;
Pembroke and
Pater
N otloy
Newhaven -
North Shields
Penzance

Portland and Port-

land Roads
Plymouth (Oxen)
Portsmouth (do.)
Sheerness (do.)
Ramsgate
Scilly
Southampton
Swansea
Torquay
Weymouth
\Vivenhoe
Yarmouth (North)

Downs
Dover
Exmouth
Ftdinouth
Fleotwood
Powey
Gravesend
Groenhitha
Harwich •
11013-head
Ilull,llawkenoads,
and in the Ilum-1
ber

SCOTLAND.
Aberdeen I Greenock
Ardrishaig Leith, Leith Roads,
Grauton & Frith of Forth
IRELAND.

Queensforry

Bantry Keninare
Belfast Kilrush
Buncrama (Lough Killibcgs
S willy) ' Kingstown and
Castletownsend Dublin
Crookhaven Lough Foyle
Foynes Mill Cove (Bore-
Galway haven)
N.B.—The Contractors are to supply good, fat, well-fed
Ox Beef, as No littrEn MEAT will be admitted.

Queenstown and

Kinsale
Ratlaimullen
Valentin
Waterford
Westport

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
Nore, both inclusive; also the Naval Barracks at Sheer-
ness.

Parties Tendering for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Sheerness, aro 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 iu 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, iu claiming payanmt f,nr the
supplies of Beef, are to make out their I uvoices in Pounds
at per 100Ibs.
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 ou
board 11. M.'s. ships and vessels.
The Contractor for Gravesend is to be 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.O. ; 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 Greenock Scilly
Belfast Harwich Shields
Berwick Hull S wansea
Cowes Jersey & Guernsey Waterford
Dartmouth Londonderry (for Westport
Falmouth Lough Foyle) Wexford
Fleetwood Newhaven Weymouth
Fowey Penzance Yarmouth
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 tendering in the sum of £1,500 for
the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer-
ness, Port=mouth, Plymouth, and Queenstown 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.