The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

N UMIIER 10,490.

CONTRACT for BUILDING a VESSEL of ABOUT 80

TONS.
Navy-Office, April 15, 1826.
THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM-
MISSIONERS of His MAJESTY'S NAVY do
hereby give Notice, That on THURSDAY, the 27th Instant,
..at One o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons
as may be willing to Contruct for Building, in the River
thaines, a Vessel for the Service of the Ordnance Department,
Of about 80 Tons Burthen, to be delivered at His Majesty's
Dock-yard at Woolwich. •
A Draught of the Vessel, and a Form of the Tender, may
`he seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after One
o'Clock on the Day of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the
party, or an agent for him, attends.
Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter addressed
to the Navy Board, and signed by a responsible Person, en-
gaging to become bound with the Person tendering, in the
Sum of £3OO, for the due perfonnance of the Contract. •

NAVY-OFFICE, April c 4, as 26.
IrE Right Honourable the LORDS COM-
MISSIONERS of his hIAJESTY's TREASURY having
appointed Money for the Payment of HALF-PAY to SEA-
OFFICERS, from the Ist of January, to the 31st of March,
1826,according to his Majesty's tstahlishment in that behalf.
These are to give notice, that the several Payments will be-
gin to be made at the Pay-Office, by tin' Treasurer of his
Majesty's Navy, at Ten °Thick in the 'Morning, on the fol-
lowing slays, viz.
On the Ist, ad, and 3d of May, to Admirals, Captains, and
their Attornies.
On the 4th, hth, ath, till,, and loth of May, to Licate.
• hams and Chaplains, and their Attornics.
On the 11th and 12th of May, to Masttrs, Surgeons, and
Dfirsers, and their Attornies.
After which the Lists Will be recalled the first and third
Wednesday in every month, that all Persons may Olen and
there attend tn receive what way become payable to them
and bring with them an Affidavit as required by Order its
Council of 30th July, 1819, the Forms of which were publish-
ed in an Advertisement from this Office, dated 16th Septem-
her, 1819, and may be procured at the 011i5e of the Treasurer
t6l the Navy ; and in case any of the said Officers should
not be able to atte• d themselves, hut employ Attornies for
thatpnrpose, the . Attornies are to produce similar Atli-
• 411 Cits from the Pe sons they are employed by.
Where Officers are Abroad on leave, their Agents are to
produce attested Copies of such Leave before the Half-Pay
tan.be paid.
And as by Act of Parliament passed in the 35th year of his
late Majesty's Reign, entituled, " An Act for establish-
ing a more easy and expeditious method for the Payment of
Officers belonging to his Majesty's Navy," it is enacted by
the 40tH-(;clause of the said Act, " that if any Commissioned
or Warrant Naval Officer, who shall he entitled to receive
Half-Pay, and shell be desirous to receive and be paid the
same, et or near the place of Isis Residence, he may apply to
the Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy in London, to hare such
Half Pay paid at or near the place of his Residence, &c.
in the manner pointed out by the said Act." And by a fur-
lb4r Act passed in the 56th year of hie late Majesty's
entituled, An Act for enabling the Officers in his
Majesty's Navy, and their Representatives, to draw for and
receive their Half-Pay," it is enacted by the. Ist and 3d
Clauses of the said Act, " that if any Officer in his Majesty's
Navy, who shall he entitled to receive any sum of money for
or on account of his Half-Pay, shall be desirous of drawing a
Bill of Exchange for the same upon the Commissioners of his
Majesty's Navy, instead of receiving the same by Remittance
gill, he shall signify such desire by Letter to the Treasurer
of his Majesty's Navy ; and that if any Officer in his Ma-
jesty's Navy, who shall he entitled to receive any sum of mo-
ney for or on account of Half-Pay, shall be desirous of having
bit Half-Pay paid toitim by Extract, at any of tit Majesty's
Dock Yards, where Clerks for the Payment of Wages for the
Navy- shall reside, instead of receiving the same by Remit-
tAnce.Bill or Bill of Exchange, he is to apply either to the
Proper. Clerk at. the Navy Pay-Office in London, or at the
Notice-Is hereby further given, that the Half-Pay ending the
• 81st of March last, will commence paying on the Ist of May
next, and all Persons desirous of drawing for, or of having
their Half-Pay remitted to them, may apply as above directed.
• G. SMITH.

Mtst.—Bills of Exchange drawn under or by virtue of the
Act above recited, are nut liable to the Stamp Duty.
No Persons residing out of his Majesty's Dominions are en-
titled to the privileges of this Act.