Advertisement – ONGAR UNION

Persons willing to CONTRACT for the supply of Bread, Flour, and Meat as Out Relief, and at the Workhouse, for Three Calendar Months; and for Grocery, Beer and Coals, Wine and Spirits, Drapery, Hats, Hose, Shoes, and ready-made Clothes, according to sealed samples, which may be seen at the Union Workhouse; and for Coffins and conducting Funerals, for Six Calendar Months, from the 26th March instant, may apply to me or the Master of the Workhouse for Forms of Tender, which must filled up and sealed with an Indorsement denoting the Articles Tendered for, and forwarded to me on or before Eleven o’clock on the 20th March instant; and the same will be considered by the Board of Guardians at Half-past Twelve at noon on the same day; the estimated amount of the articles required being as follows, viz:-

For the Three Calendar Months

Bread for Districts as described in Forms of Tender
}Nos. 1 & 2, about 1,500 loaves
} 3 & 4, about 1,800 loaves
Flour for each District
} Nos. 1 & 2, about 10 sacks
} 3 & 4, about 12 sacks
Bread for the Workhouse, about 2,600 loaves
Flour for ditto 3 sacks
Meat for ditto, about 200 stones of 14lb. to the stone.

For Six Calendar Months

Coals for the Workhouse, about 30 tons (Seaborne)
Beer for ditto 16 barrels
Groceries for ditto, £80 to £100
Drapery, Hats, Hose, &c, for ditto, £40
Shoes and Mending for ditto, £20.

By order of the Board
CHARLES MOTT
Clerk