The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-07
WASHINGTON: FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 4 ls49
55 bushels of new white field beans
876 pounds of good hard soap
1913 pounds of good hard tallow candles
Ia bushels of good clean dry fine salt
oo0 oalJona Of rood cider vinegar

So bushels of new white field beans
876 pounds of good hard soap
1923 pounds of good hard tallow candles
Ia bushels of good clean dry fine salt
22O 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, win be,
one fourth LIST June, LIST September, LIST December,
1850, and LIST March, 1851.
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.
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 sailed and pack
ed 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 box
es, of convenient size for transportation.
Salt will only be received by measurement of
thirty-two quarts to the bushel. The candies to
have cotton wicks. The provisions for st. Peters
and Fort Gaines must pass St. Louis for their uti-
mate destination in the first week of April, 1850;
and the stores for Fort Gaines pass St. Peters
by the LIST June, 1850. failure in this particular
will be considered breach of contract, and the
Department will be authorized to purchase to sup
ply 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 store houses may be designated by the
agents of the Department. The Commissary Gen
eral reserves the privilege of increasing or dimin-
ishing the quantities, of dispensing with any
all articles required at any post at any time before
entering into contract; and also of increasing
reducing the quantities of each delivery one-third
subsequent to contract, giving sixty days pre-
vious notice,
Bidders, not heretofore contractors, required
to accompany their proposals with evidence of their
ability together with the names of their sureties
whose responsibility must be certified by the dis
trict attorney, or by some person well known to the
Government; otherwise their proposals will not be
acted on.
Adpances cannot be made in any case, and evidence
Of inspection and fun deliuey ioiu be required at this
office before requistOn toiH be made upon The Ireasu
ry for payment which will be effected in such
public money as may be convenient to the points
of delivery the places of purchase the residence
of the contractors, at the option of the Treasury
Department.
No drafts on this Office viii be accepted or paid
under any circumstances.
Each proposal will be sealed in a separate enve
ope, and marked :" Proposals for furnishing army
subsistence
GEO. GIBSON, C. G. s.