The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-15

:" FWt @utUttU, FennSytUdald.
Sc barrels of pork
100 barrels Of fresh superine -four
so bushels Of new white field beans
$50 pounds Of good hard soap
600 pounds of good hard tallow candles
20 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
100 gallons of good cider vinegar.
At Fort .McHenry, near Baltimore, Mary
land
100 barrels Of pork
260 barrels Of fresh super6ne -four
rs bushels ofnew white field beans
1900 pounds of good hard soap
1900 pounds of good hard taliow candles
40 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
200 gallons ofgood cider vinegar.
ut Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va.
$50 barrels Of pork
$50 barrels of fresh superfne -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.
ut Fort Johnston, Smithpille, NORTH Caro-
lima.
Sc barrels Of pork
100 barrels of fresh superfne flour
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
900 gallons Of good cider vinegar.
1T Fort .Moultsie, Charleston, South Car
is okna.
l64 barrels pork
$50 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
fit Oglethorpe 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
800 pounds OF good hard sperm candles
Is bushels Of good clean dry fine salt
400 gallons of good cider vinegar.
NorE.--All bidders are requested to extend the
amount of their bids for each article, and exhibit the
total amount of ench bad.
The perodsand quantities Of each delivery atthose
posts where they are not specified, will be, one-
fourth lst June, LIST September, LIST December, 1886,
and LIST March, 1647. iaaic
The hogs of which the pork is packed to be fat
tened on corn, and each hog weigh not LEES 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 30 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
thrty-two quarts to the bushel, The candles to
have cotton wcks. The provisions for Fort At
kinson and ST. Peters must pass 81. Louis. for
their ultimate destination, in the first week Of April,
le46. A failure in this particular will be con-
sidcred 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 tho
agents of the department. The Commissary Gene
raj reserves the privilege of increasing diminish
ing the quantities, Of dispensing with any or all
articles required at any post, at any time before en-
tering into contract; and also of increasing redu-
cling the quantities of each delivery onethird subse-
quent to contract on giving sixty days previous mo-
ticc. III '6s s@F's
Bidders, not heretofore contractors, arc required
to accompany their proposals with evidence of their
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.
aduances be mode In any case and evidence of
inspection and full delivery uiu be required at this Office
before requision sciu 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 viii be sealed in separate envelope,
and marked Proposals for furnishing army sub
sistence."
GEO. GIBSON,
Com. Gen. Subsistence.
NoTE.-Edtors will not be paid for inserting in
their papers this advertisement unless authorized to
do 80 by the Commssary General of Subsistence.
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