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For every complete ration issued at For Vincennes, Twelve cents
 
For every complete ration issued at For 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 at Fort Massac, or at any place or places within the State of Kentucky, Eleven Cents
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For every complete ration issued [obscured] Canton near the mouth of the Ohio, Eleven Cents and five mills
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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
 
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
  
  
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Should any rations be required at any places, or within any other districts not specified in this contract, the price of the same
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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.
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''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
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