The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10
So bushels of new white field beans
S76 pounds of good hard soap
1923 pounds of good hard tallow candles
IA bushels of good clean dry fine salt
800 gallons of rood cider yine0ar

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220 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 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 packing has been completed, the con-
tractor must furnish to this Office a certificate from
the packer that hepork 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
mate destination, in the first week of April, 1885,
and the stores for Fort Gaines must 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 win be inspected at
the time and place of delivery, and all expenses to
be paid by contractors until they deposited at
| such store-houses as may be designated by the
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 third
| subsequent to contract, on giving sixty days pre-
vious notice.
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 dis
trict attorney, by person well known to the
Government; otherwise their proposals will not be
| acted on.
Of inspection and H delivery Uil be required at this
Office before reqtisition ,ciH be made upon the 1reas-
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 will be accepted or paid
under any circumstances.
Each proposal will 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 by the Commissary General Of Subsistence.
July -3tawtl5Sep
CABINET EDITION OF CLASSIC TALES.
! ~ Comprising in one volume Rasselas Vicar of
| Wakefield, Exiles of Siberia, Paul and Virginia,
Gulliver's Travels Sterne's Sentimental Journey,
Castle of Otranto, &C., &C., &c.
| WAVERLY ANECDOTES, illustrating popular
characters, scenes, and Incidents in the Novels and
Romances of Sir Walter Scott, vol, London.
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TOHNsTON's Commercial Chart OF the
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containing the position of every place of CONNER
cial Importance, showing the principal currents OF
the ocean, with their direction and rate of progress
| nc &c snple fully mpunted. inst m
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COUTHEY's Commonplace Book, volume
| - London, lS49.-Southey's Commonplace Book
choice passa ges-moral religious political phio-
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Edited by his son-in- law. For sale by
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| ENNCYCLOPHDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOW
u LEDGE, illustrated with maps and engrav-
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Busk's Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures large
volume, with many plates.
Simpsons Key TO the Bible with maps and illus
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Strauss Life of Jesus, London, volumes, syo.
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NEW EDITION OF WOOD AND BACHE's
IN UNITED STATES DISPENSATORY, re-
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for sale in Washington by
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Also Woods Practice of Medicine-last edition.
Ewells Medical Companion.
And all medical books published in the United
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MEMOIRS D'OUTRE-TOMBE--C Chateau
| INl BRAND
onfdences-Ra Raphael, pages de la vingtieme
| annce-Lamartine.
Constitution Republique Franeaise, lS4s, in French
and English. For sale at
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