enjoined not to indent on them for any article not specified therein, except in cases of absolute necessity, of which necessity the military board are to be judges in the first instance. The indents and bills for all such extra articles shall be made out separate from those for stores authorised to be furnished by the deputy pay-master, and the rates at which the articles are charged by the deputy pay-master must correspond with his actual bona fide disbursements, (which must be certified to be so upon honor,) the bills for which are to be accompanied by the original bill or receipt for the sum paid for them, and to be attested by the following declaration: "I, A. B. do hereby declare upon my honor, that the articles charged for in this bill have been purchased by me, on the public account, at the rates specified; that I do not directly or indirectly derive any emolument from their purchase; and that I have endeavoured, to the best of my power, to procure them on the most reasonable.

(Signed "A. B.

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13. The agent for the supply of military stores at the presidency, and the deputy pay-masters acting in their capacity of commissaries of supplies, being the only persons authorised to furnish any article of military stores; commissaries, deputy commissaries, or other officers of ordnance, shall on no account act as commissaries of supplies of stores; nor on any occasion whatever be concerned in purchasing or procuring military stores; the regulations of the service placing them in their proper situations of officers of custody, check and controul in the department to which they belong.

14. The list of stores and their rates to undergo revision every two years.

15. Indents on the commissary of supplies shall not include any article which the commissary, or other officer of orduance, shall have it in his power to make up. from the materials in the magazine under his charge, or which he may be able to procure from a neighbouring depot or magazine; provided, however, the purpose for which such articles are required is not of an emergent nature, or that the service would be liable to be prejudiced by the delay that could attend a requisition on another depot or magazine, in all such cases the discretion of the officer commanding, and the rules of the service which provide for public emergencies must be the guide.

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16. It is however expected, that commissaries, and officers ordnance, in charge of magazines, will prevent the necessity of having recourse to the commissiaries of supplies, for Europe, and other articles not in the list of stores which they are authorised to supply, and which are usually sent from the grand arsenal of Fort William to the different magazines, by foreseeing the probable demand there will be for such articles, and by making timely applications to the military board for the requisite supplies, as well as by keeping themselves informed of the state of magazines within their reach.

17. Until a new table of rates can be prepared for the different stations of the army, deputy paymasters are to con me to u.. ish the usual stores according to the rates heretofore allowed.

T. HILL, Acting Sec. Mil. Dept.

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Fort William, Sept. 18, 1806. Ordered that the following conditions of the agreement, entered into by government with Mr. Fairlie, for the supply of military stores, &c. and with Messrs. Inglis, Raitt, and Co. for the supply of chumani, be published in general orders.

The stores are to be supplied on indents passed by the military board, setting forth the specific purposes for which they are required; and the contractor or contractors are obliged to furnish the several articles of stores, if of less cost than sicca rupees 5000: within one month after the indent or indents, passed by the military board, for such stores, shall have been presented by the public officer or department, for whose use they may be required; if the stores be of the value or cost, of sicca rupees 5000 within two months, and if the value or cost of the stores be sicca rupees 10,000: within three months after the indents passed as before shall have been presented to the contractor, unless sufficient and satisfactory reasons shall be assigned by the contractor to the military board, for any longer delay in their deli

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Immediately on the indent being presented to the contractor, passed by the military board as above, he is to endorse the same "accepted," adding the date of presentment, so as to ascertain the time within which it is incumbent upon him to furnish the articles required.

No stores are, on any account, to be received in large quantities from the contractor, until they shall have been surveyed, and approved as good and serviceable, and corresponding with the prescribed musters (in case where

musters are fixed by a committee of officers nominated for the purpose.

The commissary of stores, garrison store-keeper, executive officer, barrack-master, and agent for gun carriages, and powder barrels, are to attend the committees of survey in their respective departments, and to point out, to the committees, such stores as may be tendered by the contractor, and which may in their judgment be any way objectionable or unfit for service, and these officers, viz. the garrison store-keeper, executive-officer, barrack-master, and agent for gun carriages and powder barrels, will be held responsible for any store admitted by the committees of survey, with their consent, which may afterwards be found unfit for the purposes for which they were intended.

The contractor is bound to furnish the commissary stores, and garrison store-keeper, with lists of the articles which he shall from time to time offer to deliver into the arsenal, or garrison stores, in which lists are to be expressed the numbers of the indents, as registered by the military board office, by which the supplies of the articles so offered shall have been authorized, and committees of surveys, or inspecting officers being furnished by the commissary of stores, or garrison store-keeper, as the case may require, with the said lists, shall insert the corresponding numbers of the indents in their reports of the survey, which are to be forwarded in the usual manner through the town-major's office, to the military board.

The store which may be rejected by the committees of survey as unfit for the service, will be at the expense of the contractor, who

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will in no case be entitled to any indemnification, either for the original cost of stores so rejected, or for any expense attending their transportation or custody.

In all cases where a large quantity of stores of considerable value may have been rejected, the contractor shall be at liberty to appeal to the military board, whose decision, or that of the committee, to consist of no less than two of its members, deputed by them for the purpose of inspecting the rejected stores, shall be final.

Should it appear that stores, which have been thus finally rejected, have again been tendered for the public service by the contractor, he shall, on the same being proved to the satistaction of government, be held to have forfeited double the rate of the article, or articles, of stores so tendered, and government, moreover, on clear proof of such intended imposition, reserves to itself the right of annulling the contract altogether.

All risque and expense attending the provision, transportation, and custody of the stores, until they shall have been approved, and received on survey and inspection, by the proper officers, shall, in all cases, and under all circumstances, be borne by the contractor, and not by the honorable company; on the other hand, no unnecessary delay is to attend the reception of the stores from the contractor; it being .the duty of the commissary of stores, garrison store-keeper, executive officers, barrack-master, and agent for gun carriages and powder barrels, in their respective departments, to make the requisite application to have committees of survey appointed for the inspection of stores, whenever they shall be tendered by the contractor.

The indents of the contractor, after they shall have been complied with by him, and indorsed, "received serviceable," by the officer for the use of whose department the stores may have been supplied, are, together with a duplicate, or authenticated copy of the survey report of the stores so supplied, to be tacked to his bills for the same, and together with them to be forwarded to the military auditor-general, by whom they will be passed, conformably to the contract rates, and to the prescribed mode for adjusting accounts in the military department.

Proportionate and periodical supplies of cash will be made to the contractor or contractors, (at the recommendation of the military board) calculated on quarterly estimates, of the expected demands to be furnished for that purpose, by the departments for whose use respectively the stores shall be required.

All stores required for the department of the commissary of. stores, are to be delivered at the arsenal of Fort William, and all stores required for the barrackmaster at such place, within the garrison of Fort William, as he shall point out.

Timbers of a bulky nature, bricks, soorkies, coah, sand and conker, are to be tendered at Ballao Ghaut, where the garrison store-keeper will assume the charge of them after they shall have passed the prescribed survey or inspection.

All other stores not specified as above, are to be delivered at the garrison store rooms.

Accoutrements for two-thirds of the army are to be delivered at Cawnpore, and it will be at the option of the contractor to deliver at the same magazine such number

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