The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-09

1900 pounds of good hard allow candles
60 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
$50 gallons of good cider vinegar.
at Fort Hamilton, .Nurotcs, .NeD York
harbor, .New York.
lao barrels of pork
800 barrels of fresh superfne -four
10 bushels of new white field beans
1900 pounds of good hard soap
1000 pounds of good hard tallow candles
60 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
600 gallons of good cider vinegar
Al Fort Mblin, Pennsylvania.
Sc barrels of pork
100 barrels of fresh superfne flour
so bushels of new white field beans
$50 pounds Of good hard soap
600 pounds of good hard talow candles
20 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
900 gallons of good cider vinegar.
At Fort .NcHenry, near Baltimore, Mary
land.
100 barrels of pork
900 barrels Of fresh superine -four
rs bushels of new white field beans
1900 pounds OF good hard soap
1900 pounds of good hard taow 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 superfne -four
$50 bushels of new white field beans
1000 pounds ofgood hard soap
$500 pounds Of good hard tallow candles
100 bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
1900 gallons of good cider vinegar.
at Fort Johnston, Smithrtlle, NORTH Caro-
lima.
Sc barrels of pork
100 barrels of fresh superhne flour
so bushels Of new white field beans
$50 pounds of good hard soap
400 pounds of good hard sperm candles
20 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
200 gallons of good cider vinegar.
1T Fort .Moulf,1e, 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
GEO gallons Of good cider vinegar.
ut Oglefhorpe Barracks, Savannah, Georgia.
100 barrels of pork
230 barrels of fresh superfne -four
100 bushels of new white field beans
1909 pounds of good hard soap
500 pounds Of good hard sperm candles
25 bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
400 gallons of good cider vinegar.
NorE-All bidders are requested to extend the
of their bids for each article, and exhibit the
total amount Of each bid
TIC peTlOusuHu VudHiitIts VI eotH uOb'Si
posts where they are not specified, will be, one
fourth LIST June LIST September LIST December, 1916,
and LIST March, lS47.
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 ceruhcae 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 to the bushel. The candles to
have cotton wicks. The provisions for Fort At
kinson and St. Peters must pass st. Louis, for
their ultimate des nation, in The first week Of April
1876. A failure IN this particular will be con-
| sdered 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 are deposited a,
such storehouses as may be designated by the
agents of the department. The Commissary Gene
raj the privilege of increasing or diminish
ing the quantities, or of dispensing with any or all
articles required al any post, at any time before en-
tering into contraC land also OF increasing or redu-
quentto contract, on giving sixty days previous no.
tice.
Bidders, not heretofore contractors are required
to accompany their proposals with evidence of theiI
ability, together with the names of their suretes
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.
.4duances cannot be made in any case, and eridence o.
Inspection and full delivery rH be required al this o6ic'
before regldsition mH be made upon The treasury to'
payment; which will be effected in such public mo
ney as may be convenient to the points of delivery
the places of purchase or 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 a separate envelope
and marked Proposals for furnishing army sub
sstence.n
GEO. GIBSON,
! Com. Gen. Subsistence.
NorE.-Editors will not be paid for inserting in
their papers this advertisement, unless authorized tc
do SO by the Commissary General Of Subsistence.
| July l5-3tawtl5thSept.
| PROTECTION INSURANCE COMPANY.