The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-14
1T Fort .adams, Newport, r. /

$50 barrels OF pork
800 barrels Of fresh superfne Hour
100 bushels Of new white held beans
$500 pounds of good hard soap
1900 hounds Of good hard tallow candles
so bushels of good clean dry fine salt
ego gallons Of good cider vinegar.
at Fort 7rumbuH, -NeD London, CT.
Sc barrels of pork
1875 barrels of fresh superfne -four
so bushels Of new white field beans
$50 pounds Of good hard soap
$50 pounds Of good hard tallow candles
20 bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
800 gallons of good cider vinegar.
lit Fort Columbus Governors Island, .Neo
York har5or, .Nep York.
200 barrels Of pork
400 barrels of fresh superfne -four
ITS bushels of new white field beans
4 900 pounds Of good hard soap
1900 pounds Of good hard tallow candles
60 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
$50 gallons of good cider vinegar
1T Fort Hamilton, .Narro,os, .NtD York
harbor, .Ne,D York.
l40 barrels of pork
800 barrels of fresh superfne -four
ITO bushels of new white field beans
5000 pounds of good hard soap
1900 pounds Of good hard talow candles
60 bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
600 gallons of good cider vinegar.
1T Fort .Mi6lin, Pennsylvania.
Sc barrels of pork
100 barrels of fresh superfne -four
SO bushels of new white field beans
$50 pounds of good hard soap
600 pounds of good hard taow candles
90 bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
900 gallons of good cider vinegar
lit Fort JMcHenry, near Baltimore, Mary
land.
100 barrels of pork
26O barrels Of fresh superfne -four
rs bushels of new white field beans
1900 pounds Of good hard soap
1900 pounds of good hard talow 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
100 barrels of fresh super6ne -four
$50 bushels Of new white field beans
1000 pounds ofgood hard soap
$500 pounds Of good hard tahow candles
100 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
1900 gallons of good cider vinegar.
1T Fort Johnston, Smithville, 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
20 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
200 gallons of good cider vinegar.
.At Fort .Moult,ie, Charleston, South Car
olina.
l64 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.
lit Oglethorpe Barracks, Sauannah, Georgia.
100 barrels of pork
800 barrels of fresh super6ne -four
100 bushels of new white field beans
1900 pounds of good hard soap
800 pounds Of good hard sperm candles
IS 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 periodsand quantities of each delivery at those
posts where they not specified, will be, one
fourth LIST June, lst September, LIST December, 1886
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 snou. 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 hoped; 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. Tie provisions for Fort At
knson and 81. Peters must pass 81. Louis, for
their ultimate destination, in the first week of April,
1886 failure in this particular will be con-
sidered 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 at
such storehouses may be designated by the
agents of the department. The Commissary Gene
raj reserves the privilege of increasing or diminish
ing the quantities. or of dispensing with any or all
articles required at any post al any time before en-
erng into contraC and MISC of increasing or redu-
cling the quantities uf each delivery one-thrd subse
quent to contract giving sixty days previous no.
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 70 the gov,
ernmen otherwise, their proposals will not be acted
on.
4dpances cannot be made IN amy case and evidence Of
inspection and full delivery triH be required al this office
before requsition tciH 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
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.
NorE.-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.
THO BROKERS THROUGHOUT THE UNI
i TED STATES-All prizes in any Of the
authorized lotteries drawn in The United States will
be paid demand, in specie funds at the usual dis
count at the old-estabshed Office Of