The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-26
WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER g. ls4s

SIS 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
900 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, will be,
| fourth LIST June LIST September, lst 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,
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 pac king 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 candles to
have cotton wicks. The provisions for st. Peters
and Fort Gaines must pass St. Louis for their ulti
| 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 a breach Of contract and the
Department will be authorized to purchase to sup
ply these posts The provisions viii be inspected at
the time and place Of delivery, and all expenses
be paid by contractors until they deposited at
such store houses may be designated by the
agents of the Department The Commissary Gen
eral reserves the privilege of increasing dimin
ishing the quantities. or 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, on giving sixty days pre-
| vious notice
Bidders, not heretofore contractors, are required
accompany their proposals with evidence Of their
ability, together with the names of their suretes
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 full delivery ,cA be required at this
Office before reqlsition sciH be made upon the Ireds
| ~ for payment; which will be effected in such
public money 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 this office will be accepted or paid
under any circumstances
Each proposal viii be sealed in a separate enve
lope, and marked Proposals for furnishing army
| subsistence"
GEO. GIBSON, c. G. s.
| NoTE-Editors will not be paid for inserting in
their papers this advertisement, unless authorized
to do 80 by the Commissary General of Subsistence
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