The San Francisco call., 1899-01-24
PROPOSALS.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Quartermaster Gen
erals Office, Washington, D. c.. Jan. 90
1888 Transportation for Spanish prisoners of
wal from the Philippine Islands to Spain.
By CI. cCtcn of the Secretary of War sealed
proposals are invited for the transportation
of the Spanish prisoners of war now in the
Philippine Islands from Manila or such other
ports in the Philippine Islands as may be
most convenient for their embarkation to
Cadiz or such other ports of Spain as may
hereafter be designated. Their number is es-
timated as about sixteen thousand $4,000,
officers and enlisted men. Cabin accommoda-
tions are to be supplied for the officers and
third-class or steerage accommodations hav
ing to the United States requirements as to
space and ventilation for the enlisted men.
The United States Government will deliver the
prisoners on board the vessels at Manila
such other ports as may be designated for
their embarkation. Proposals will state the
price per capita for transporting officers and
for transporting enlisted men and for their
subsistence and delivering them shore at
the Spanish port or ports to be designated
and will be accompanied by q guarantee that
the prisoners will be comfortably cared for
and subsisted while on the journey, the sub
rison rations as follows: One thousand
QOO0) complete rations: Meat-Pork, one
tenth Q-10), seventy-fve C5) pounds net
weight; bacon, two-tenths (2-10). one hundred
and fifty Q50) pounds net weight timed roast
beef. seven-tenths G-l0, seven hundred (7OO)
pounds net weight. Flour or hard bread. net
weight one thousand C0o0) pounds Vegetables
Dry beans, net weight seventy-five G0
fresh potatoes, net weight eight hundred 5000
pounds; onions. net weight two hundred (2OO)
pounds. Coffee roasted, net weight eighty
(S0) pounds: sugar. net weight one hundred
and fifty Q50) pounds; vinegar, net weight
eighty S0) pounds; SOAP net weight forty
40) pounds; salt. net weight forty (40) pounds:
pepper, black, net weight two and fve-tenths
(25) pounds. Proposals will state the num-
Der of vessels which are proposed to be used
for the service, the name and classification of
each, the tonnage. capacity of each, their
speed, the berth accommodations upon each
and the approximate length of time required
by each vessel to make the voyage from
Manila to the coast of Spain, Proposals will
also state the time at which each vessel will
arrive in the harbor of Manila and report TO
the chief quartermaster at that place ready
for the embarkation of the prisoners of war
Vessels of any nationality may be rendered
and will be considered for the service re-
uuired Payment for the service will be made
when evidence is furnished that the shin
has arrived with her passengers at point
of destination The number of officers
and men counted aboard at place of
enbarkation by the quartermaster is to
determine the number to be paid for Pro-
posals should be addressed to the Depot
or to the Depot Quartermaster. San Fran
opened at twelve d2) o'clock m, standard
time, on the first day of February eighteen
hundred and ninety-nine, and submitted to
this office. The Government reserves the
right to reject any and all proposals submit
ted. M. I. LUDINGTON, Cuartermaster GEN
eral u. S. Army.