PROPOSALS FOR RATIoNs.

HEApaUARTERs MARINE CoRps,


QUARTERMAsTER'sO OFFICE,
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"'7 HEApeuARrERs MARINE CoRps,


QUARTERMAsTER's OFFICE,


.Gt Washington, Oct. -, lS46.


EPARATE proposals will be received
- at this Office unul 10 O'Clock, a. m. on Monday,
tile 9Th day or November next, for furnishing ra-
tons TO the United States marines at the following
places for the year l847 viz: VI" ''" q. %" ,
81 Charlestown, Massachusetts,; ri


Brooklyn, Long island, New York; v. -@


Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
'Gosport, (ncar Norfolk,) Virginia; .''"' .
p" Pensacola, Florida; and w y :. n. I'r' /
Washington, District Of Columbia. ~ = ."'}y /
Each ration to consist Or one pound and a quarter
Of fresh beef, Or three-quarers Of pound DC mess
PORK; eighteen ounces Of bread, or 'superfne -four
at the option Of the government; and at the rate Of
six pounds Of good coffee, twelve poundsof the best
New Orleans sugar, eight quarts of tie best white
BEANS four quarts pf vinegar two quarts ofsalt four
pounds Of good hard brown soap, and one and a
yhHlf pounds uf good hard dipped tallow candles 10
each hundred fations. '."'. ..'' y"
-, The beefreqpred shall BE- delivered on the order
bulk Or by The single ration and shall CONSIST Of the
best and most choice portions Of the carcass, ,g
" The pork 70 be Nd. prime, mess pork, md the
groceries the beat quality Of the Kinds named, sub
iect to inspection, - ~ - t,,;,T5 I'd, ,i.g
No bid viii BE- entertained asniess aee4mpapiqa ~
the names Of wosute.ies, responsible for The fbfp
To be endofAed "Proposas for rs,,ons for 1S47"
XXI .,,7. 'l''S AUG A. ICHoLSoN, :. '
.w,.' " =, ~, Quarermaster Marine Corps


The American Sentinel, ,Pennsylvanian, and Key
stone, Philadelphia; the Boston Post and Boston
Times, Boston; the Herald, News, Globe, Journal
Of Commerce, and Courier & ,EnquiIer New York.
the Baltmore Republican and Sun, Baltimore; the
Norfolk Beacon, Norfolk Herald, the New Fro,
Portsmouth, Va Richmond Enquirer; the Alexah-
dria Gazette, Alexandria, Va and the Pensacoa
Gazette, will give the above three insertions each
per week, and send an account, accompanied by one
printed copy Of the advertisement, TO tins Office for
payment, l,T .sg e..EA ~ &c 4 gS a..as


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