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pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations; and whenever the commander in chief of the army, or the commanding officer of any separate detachment, or garrison thereof shall so require half a gill of rum or whiskey, or other ardent spirits, and whensoever supplies thereof shall be on hand, vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. It is understood and agreed, that when the proper officer shall make no requisition for ardent spirits, there shall be no issue of the same, and a reduction in the price of every ration, of which ardent spirits make no component part, be made conformably to a scale hereinafter agreed upon.
 
pounds, and candles at the rate of a pound and a half for every hundred rations; and whenever the commander in chief of the army, or the commanding officer of any separate detachment, or garrison thereof shall so require half a gill of rum or whiskey, or other ardent spirits, and whensoever supplies thereof shall be on hand, vinegar at the rate of two quarts for every hundred rations. It is understood and agreed, that when the proper officer shall make no requisition for ardent spirits, there shall be no issue of the same, and a reduction in the price of every ration, of which ardent spirits make no component part, be made conformably to a scale hereinafter agreed upon.
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It is understood, that it shall be in the option of the general or officer commanding an army or a great military district, in all cases not otherwise provided for by this contract, to direct when, and how often fresh or salted meat shall be issued by general orders, to be promulged a reasonable time before the issue is to commence that in all cases where salted provisions are issued, the article of salt shall not be required; that the contractor shall always issue flour two days in every week, and the option of bread or flour for the remainder of the week be with the contractor; that in the delivery of bread, flour or meat, one per cent shall be deducted from the gross weight of every parcel weighed, for draft and wastage, but each parcel weighed,