Contract for Rations: Page #2

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Articles of Agreement,

Made on the Seventh day of July Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and one between Henry Dearborn Samuel Dexter Secretary for the Department of War of the United States of America, of the one part, and Daniel Vertner of Mason County in the State of Kentucky of the other part.

THIS AGREEMENT WITNESSETH, That the said Henry Dearborn Samuel Dexter, for and on behalf of the said United States of America, and the said Daniel Vertner for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, have mutually covenanted and agreed, and by these presents do mutually covenant and agree to and with each other, as follows, viz.

First. That the said Daniel Vertner his executors or administrators, shall deposit, supply, and issue all the rations herein specified, and which shall be hereafter required of him or them for the use of the United States, from the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and one to the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and two at the respective places and prices following: viz,

For every complete ration issued at Fort Washington, Ten cents, five mills For every complete ration issued at Fort Vincennes, Twelve cents For every complete ration issued at Fort Massac, or at any place or places within the State of Kentucky, Eleven Cents For every complete ration issued [obscured] [undecipherable] near the mouth of the Ohio, Eleven Cents and five mills For every complete ration issued at any post or place on the east side of the Mississippi River, between the mouth of the Ohio & Illinois Rivers, Sixteen Cents and five mills

Should any rations be required at any places, or within any other districts not specified in this contract, the price of the same shall be hereafter agreed on betwixt the public and the contractor but it is to be understood, that it is in the option of the public to require the delivery of the rations at any of the enumerated places or posts, though designed to be consumed at other places or posts, paying the stipulated prices at the places of delivery; provided, that if the contractor shall have been required to deposit provisions at one place or post, and shall afterwards be required to remove them, to be delivered at another place or post, at which the price of the ration is lower than at the first mentioned place or post, the price to be allowed for such provisions so removed, shall be that which is stipulated to be paid at the said first mentioned place or post, together with the expences of transportation to such other place or post.

Second. That the ration to be furnished and delivered by virtue of the contract, shall consist of the following articles, viz. Eighteen ounces of bread or flour, or when neither can be obtained, of one quart of rice, or one and an half pound of sifted or boulted Indian meal, one pound and a quarter of fresh beef, or one pound of salted beef, or three quarters of a pound of salted pork, and when fresh meat is issued, salt at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations, soap at the rate of four

[inverted, center]S.P. Cont. Vol 2 page 13dc

Ent^d folio 1a9c in book No. 3