The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-04


275 gallons of good elder vinegar
AfFort adams, Newport, Rhode Island
700 barrels Of pork
ooO barrels Of fresh superfne -four
S4O bushels of new white field beans
4,oOO pounds of good hard soap
,44O pounds of good hard taiow candles
80 bushels of good clean dry salt
100 gallons of good cider vinegar p
At Fort IrumbuH, NeO London, Connecticut.
$50 barrels of pork
$50 barrels of fresh superfne -four
100 bushels of new white field beans
24OO pounds of good hard soap
72O pounds of good hard talow candles
40 bushels of good clean dry salt
$50 gallons of good cider vinegar
At Nelo York.
300 barrels of pork
500 barrels of fresh superfne Flour
240 bushels of new white field beans
4,SOO pounds of good hard soap
|, 440 pounds of good hard taIlow candles
80 bushels of good clean dry salt
LOO gallons of good cider vinegar
At Fort Mi6lin, Pennsylvania.
rs barrels of pork
l4O barrels of fresh superfne flour
60 bushels of new white field beans
1900 pounds of good hard soap
$50 pounds of good hard tallow candles
20 bushels of good clean dry salt
275 gallons of good cider vinegar
Al Baltimore, MARYLAND
225 barrels of pork
420 barrels of fresh superfne flour
$50 bushels of new white field beans
$500 pounds of coed hard soap
1880 pounds of good hard taIlow candles
60 bushels of good clean dry salt
1926 gallons of good cider vinegar
At Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va
600 barrels of pork
l,120 barrels of fresh superine flour
4oO bushels of new white field beans
$500 pounds of good hard soap
1850 pounds of good hard talow candles
l60 bushels of good clean dry salt
1900 gallons fgood cider Vinegar.
At Fort Johnston, Sn,ithviue, North Carolina.
IS barrels of pork
l40 barrels of fresh supeIine -four
60 bushels of new white field beans
200 pounds of good hard soap
24O pounds of good hard sperm candles
20 bushels ofgood clean dry salt
275 gallons of good cider vinegar.
At Fort Macon, Beaufort, North Carolina.
IS barrels of pork
l4O barrels of fresh super6ne flour
60 bushels of new white field beans
200 pounds of good hard soap
240 pounds of good hard sperm candles
20 bushels of good clean dry salt
Pts gallons of good cider vinegar.
At Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina.
225 barrels of pork
$50 barrels Of fresh superine flour
100 bushels Of new white field beans
8 600 pounds of good hard soap
72O pounds of good hard sperm candles
60 bushels of good clean dry salt
1926 gallons Of good cider vinegar.
At Oglethorpe Barracks, Savannah, Georgia.
$50 barrels of pork
$50 barrels Of fresh superfne flour
12O bushels of new white field beans
2,40O pounds of good hard soap
40 pounds of good hard sperm candles
40 bushels of good clean dry salt
$50 gallons of good cider vinegar
NorE.-AlI bidders are requested to extend the
amount of their bids for each article and exhibit the
total amount of each bid The periods and quanti-
ties of each delivery at those posts where they
specified will be, onefourth LIST June, LIST September
1st December lS43 and LIST March, 1874 The
hogs of which the pork is packed to be fattened on
corn, and each hog to weigh not less than two hun
dred pounds, and consist Of hog to each barrel
excluding the feet, legs, and snout. Side pieces
may be substituted for the hams.
The pork is to be first sailed with Turks Island
salt and then carefully packed with the article
in pieces not exceeding ten pounds each. When
the packing has been completed, the contractor
furnish to this office certificate from the packer that
the pork has been sailed and packed.
The pork to be contained in seasoned heart of
white oak or white ash barrels, full hoped the
beans and salt in barrels and the soap and candles in
strong boxes Of convenient size, for ransportaon.-
Salt will only be received by measurement of thirty
two quarts to the bushe. The candles to have cot
ton wicks The provisions for Prairie du Chen and
tination, by the 18th of April lS43. failure in
this particular will be considered breach of contract
and the Department will be authorized to purchase to
supply these posts. The provisions will be inspected
the time and place of delivery, and all expenses
be paid by contractors until they deposited at such
storc-houses may I've designated by the agents of
the Department
The Commssary General reserves the privil. &c of
increasing diminishing the quantities. of dspen-
sing with any all articles required at any post,
any time before entering into contract and also ofin-
creasng reducing the quantities of each delivery
one-third, subsequent to contract giving sixty
days previous notice.
Bidders, not heretofore contractors, required to
accompany their proposals with evidence of their abil
ity together with the names of their suretes, whose
responsibility must be certified by the District Attor
ment, otherwise their proposals will not be acted on.
Advances cannot be made in any case and evil
dence of inspection and full delivery will be required
at this Office before requistion will be made upon the
Treasury for payment, which will be effected in such
public money as may be convenient to the points of
delivery the places of purchase the residence ofthe
contractors, at the option of tie Treasury Depart
ment.
No drafts on this office will be accepted or paid UNI
der any circumstances.
Each proposal will be sealed in separate envelope,
and marked Proposals for furnishing Army Sub
sistence"
GEO GIBSON, G. Gs
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NOTICE.
III HE Schooner NIGHTHAWK will take trip
i to the CAMP MEETING, held on the 18th of Au-
gust on the eastern shore of Deals Island, Som
erset county, Md and can take 20 or 25 white male
passengers, they boarding themseves,-fare S3 per
head, there and back to w ashington Every possible