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


600 pounds of good hard tallow candles
90 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
900 gallons of good cider vinegar.
1T Fort JMcHenry, near Baltimore, Mary
land.
100 barrels of pork
260 barrels Of fresh superfne flour
IS bushels of new 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.
fit Fort Monroe, Old Point Comfort, Va.
$50 barrels Of pork
78O barrels of fresh superfne -four
$50 bushels of new white field beans
1000 pounds of good hard soap
$500 pounds of good hard talow candles
100 bushels of good clean dry fine salt
1900 gallons of good cider vinegar.
.H Fort Johnston, Smithville, NORTH Caro-
lima.
Sc barrels Of pork
100 barrels Of fresh super6ne -four
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.
lit Fort .Moultrie, Charleston, South Car
DINA.
l64 barrels Of pork
09U barrels OF IreSn Sup6rHnc HOuE
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.
fit Oglethoype Barracks, Savannah, Georgia.
100 barrels of pork
230 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
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 quantities of each delivery at those
posts where they are not specified, will be, one
fourth LIST june LIST September LIST December, 1916,
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 Turk s
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
hrty-two quarts to the bushel The candles to
have cotton wicks. Tie provisions for Fort At
knson and st. Peters must pass St. Louis, for
their ultimate destination, in the first week Of April,
1916. A failure IN this particular will be con-
sidered a 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 Commssary Gene
raj reserves the privilege Of increasing or diminish
ing the quantities, or of dispensing with any or all
articles required at my post at any time before en-
terng into contraci and also of increasing redu-
cling the quantities o ench delivery onethird subse
quent to contract giving sixty days previous no.
tice.
to accompany their proposals with evidence of their
ability, together with the of their sureties,
whose responsibility must be certified by the district
attorney or by some person well known to the gov
ernment otherwise, their proposals will not be acted
on.
adpances cannot be made in any case and Evidence Of
inspection and full delivery 1iH be required at this office
before requisition icin be made upon The treasury for
payment which will be effected in such public mo-
ney 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."
Com. Gen. Subsistence.
NoTE-Edtors will not be paid for inserting in
their papers this advertisement unless authorized to
do so by the Commssary General of Subsistence.
July l5-3tawtl5thSept.