CUMBERLAND PACQUET, November 12, 1816 / ARMY CONTRACTS...Part II

[Barb Baker]

ARMY CONTRACTS.....Part II

 

Commissariat Department,

Treasury Chambers, London, 28th October, 1816.

 

NOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous of contracting to supply the following Articles for the Use of the Army, viz.

 

FORAGE, viz.

 

Oats, Hay, and Straw, to his Majesty's Cavalry in Barracks, and Oats in Cantonments and Quarters, in the undermentioned Counties:

 

Berks

Cornwall

Devon

Dorset

Essex

Kent

Lancaster

Middlesex

Norfolk

 

Northampton

Nottingham

Somerset

Suffolk

Surry

Sussex

Warwick

Wilts

York

 

and also

 

BREAD to the Household Troops in London and its Vicinity

 

That the Deliveries are to commence on and for the Twenty-fifth Day of December next, and so to continue for Six Months;  that Proposals in Writing, sealed up and marked 'Tender for Army Supplies', and will be received on or before Monday the Twenty-fifth of November (but none will be received after Twelve o'Clock on that Day), and, if sent by Post, the Postage must be paid.

 

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Proposals must be made separately for each County and Island except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of which must be included in One Tender;  as also must the several Counties in North Britain;  and each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to the Tender properly fitted up, by Two Persons of known Property engaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the Amount stated in the printed Particulars, for the due Performance of the Contract; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the Prices expressed in Words at Length;  and should it so happen that, during the Continuance of the Contract, no Troops should be stationed or supplied in the County, the Expence of the Contract and Bond, paid in the first Instance by the Contractor, shall be refunded to him.

 

Particulars of the Contracts may be had upon Application at No. 33, Great George Street, Westminster, between the Hours of Eleven and Five;  and at the Office of Deputy Commissary General Young, Edinburgh.

 

P.S. Samples of the BREAD and MEAT may be seen at the Office between the Hours of Twelve and Two.

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