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SUBSISTENCE OFFICE
UNITED STATES ARAY
No. ., Soufi Gar Sraxrr,
BALTIMORE, Nd.

0ALI4AOAB, Nd,
iXaveA s, 1866.
Proposals for FRESH Beef.
CEALED PROPOSALS, in dsplicsts, viii be re-.
- ceived at the Office Of Lieut. Bishop Aldrich.
9th q. 8. Infantry, and A. G. S., at Harper's
Ferry, West Virginia, until IL N. SATUR-
DAY, March IL, 1856, for the FRESH BEEF
required for the supply Of the troops, hospitals
and officers at, near and in the vicinity of Har-
pers Ferry, West Virginia, and at, near and in
the vicinity of Winchester, West Virginia. r
six months, from April lst 1866, or such less
period as the Commissary General Of Subsis-
tence may direct
The Beef to be delivered at Winchester.
West Virginia, or Harpels Ferry, West vir-
GINA, or at both places, and on the order Of
the Commissary or acting Commissary of Sub
sistence at either or both places.
The Beef to be of a good and marketable
quality, in equal proportion Of fore and hind
quarter meat, (nccks, shanks, and kidney tai
low to be excluded.)
The necks of the cattle slaughtered under
this agreement shall be cut of at the fourth
vertebral f,int. and the breast trimmed down.
The shanis Of forc-quartcrs shall he cut on
from three TO forr inches above the knee-joint,
and of headquarters from six TO eight inches
above the gambrel or book joint.
The Meat will be subject to rigid inspcc-
ton, and if hot satisfactory, purchases in the
opea market will be mace at the expense Of
the contractor.
All questions respecting quaii.v and condi-
ton will be settled by the officer on the Sub
sistence Department receiving the Meat.
Blank forms of proposals can be obtained on
application at this Office, either in person or by
mail, or at the Office of the Commissary Of
Subsistence at Harper's Ferry, West Va.
The certificate attached TO the proposal
must be signed by two responsible parties.
The responsibility of the guarantors must
be shown by the official certificate of the Clerk
of the nearest District Court, or of the United
States District Attorney.
:. Each party offering proposal must accom-
pany it by an affidavit that he is not interested
directly or indirectly in any bid offered except
that to which he has subscribed his name.
Bidders must he present TO respond 10 their
bids. and be prepared to give bonds for the
fulfilment of their contract, or their proposals
will not be considered.
If the bid is in the name Of a firm, the
names of all the members and their postoffice
address must appear, or it will not be consid-
cred
Each person or every member Of firm Off
ering a proposal must accompany by an oath
of allegiance to the United States Cove n
mcnt, if he has not already filed one in this
Office
Payments to be made in such funds as may
he on hand; if none on hand, to be made as
soon as received.
Proposals must be endorsed distinctly "Pro-
posals for Fresh Beef" and addressed to
Lieutenant Bishop Aldrich, 9Th United States
Infantry and A. C. s., Harpcr's Ferry, West
Virginia, who reserves the right to reject any
or all bids not to the interest Of the United
States.
All proposals not complying strictly with
the above specifications will positively be re-
ected by Lieut.. Aldrich.
THOMAS WILSON,
Brew It. Col. and c. S. U. s. A.,
and BIT. Brig. Gen. Vols.
March s, 1866.