The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-20

IUU DdTrelS Oh pork
26O barrels Of fresh superfne -four
IS bushels ofnew white field beans
1900 pounds of good hard soap
1900 pounds Of good hard tallow candles
40 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
200 gallons of good cider vinegar.
At Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va.
$50 barrels of pork
760 barrels of fresh superhne -four
$50 bushels Of new white field beans
1000 pounds Of good hard soap
$500 pounds of good hard tallow candles
100 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
1900 gallons of good cider vinegar.
lit Fort Johnston, Smithuille, North Caro-
lima.
Sc barrels of pork
100 barrels of fresh superfne -four
50 bushels of new white field beans
$50 pounds of good hard soap
400 pounds of good hard sperm candles
90 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
200 gallons Of good cider vinegar.
lit Fort .Moultrie, Charleston, South Car
DINA.
I64 barrels of pork
800 barrels Of fresh superfne -four
100 bushels Of new white field beans
$500 pounds of good hard soap
1900 pounds Of good hard sperm candles
SO bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
ego gallons Of good cider vinegar.
at Oglethospe Barracks, Savannah Georgia.
100 barrels of pork
$50 barrels of fresh superfne -four
100 bushels of new white field beans
1900 pounds of good hard soap
300 pounds Of good hard sperm candles
25 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
400 gallons of good cider vinegar.
NoTE.--All bidders are requested TO extend the
amount of their bids for each article and exhibit the
total amount Of each bid.
The periods and quantities Of each delivery at those
posts where they are not specified, will be, one
fourth LIST June, list September, LIST December, 1885,
and LIST March, l647.
The hogs of which the pork is packed to be fat
tened on corn, and each hog to weigh not less than
two hundred pounds, excluding the feet legs, ears,
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 same
article, in pieces not exceeding eight pounds each
When the packing has been completed, the con-
tractor must furnish to this office certificate from
the packer, that the pork has been so sailed and
packed. The pork is To be contained in seasoned
heart of white oak barrels, full hooped; the beans
and salt in barrels, and the soap and candles in
strong boxes of convenient size for transportation
Salt will only be received by measurement of
thirty-two quarts tn the bushel. The candles to
have cotton wicks lie provisions for Fort At
kinson and ST. Peters must pass St. Louis, for
their ultimate destination, in the first week of April,
sldered breach Of contract, and the department
will be authorized to purchase to supply these
posts. The provisions will be inspected at the
time and place of delivery, and all expenses to
be paid by contractors until they deposited at
such storehouses Gs may be designated by the
agents Of the department. The Commissary Gene
raj reserves the privilege of increasing diminish
ing the quantities, or Of dispensing with any or all
articles required at uny post, any time before
terng into conrac and nlso of increasing or redu-
cling the quantities of erch delivery onethird subse-
quent to contract, on giving sixty days. previous
tice.
Bidders, not heretofore contractors, are required
to accompany their proposals with evidence Of their
ability, together with the names of their sureties,
whose responsibility must be certified by the district
attorney, or by some person well known to the gov
eminent; otherwise, their proposals will not be acted
on. M
.adpaces cannot be made in any case, and evidence of
inspection and full delivery iA be required at this office
before reqnisiton tci be made upon the treasury for
payment which will be effected in such public mo-
ney as may be convenient to the points Of delivery,
the places OF purchase, the residence of the con-
tractors, at the option Of the Treasury Department
No drafts on this Office will be accepted or paid,
under any circumstances.
Each proposal will be sealed in separate envelope,
and marked Proposals for furnishing army sub
sistence."
GEO. GIBSON,
Com. Gen. Subsistence.
NoTE-Editors will not be paid for inserting in
their papers this advertisement unless authorized to
do so by the Commissary General of Subsistence.
July l5-3tawtl5thSept
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