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''Seventh.'' That whenever any articles constituting the whole, or any part if the ration, shall not be in store, and withheld from the officers and soldier, due bills shall be given therefor, payable within two months by the delivery of the articles withheld. If, at the expiration of the said two months, the contractor, or his agent, shall not deliver the articles expressed in the said due bills, within ten days after demand being made therefor, payment for the articles so withheld shall be made in money, by the contractor, or his agent, at the contract price.
 
''Seventh.'' That whenever any articles constituting the whole, or any part if the ration, shall not be in store, and withheld from the officers and soldier, due bills shall be given therefor, payable within two months by the delivery of the articles withheld. If, at the expiration of the said two months, the contractor, or his agent, shall not deliver the articles expressed in the said due bills, within ten days after demand being made therefor, payment for the articles so withheld shall be made in money, by the contractor, or his agent, at the contract price.
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''Eighth.'' That the said Daniel Vertner or his agents, shall, at each post, or place, where supplies shall be required, under this contract, render a monthly abstract to the commanding officer thereof, specifying the quantity and species of the supplies on hand.
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''Ninth.'' That all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, in articles intended to compose rations, to be issued under this contract, being the property of the contractor, as well as in other property necessarily used in transporting the same, shall be paid for at the contract price of the rations, or the component parts, and at an appraised value of the other articles, on the deposition of one or more creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, when the same can be obtained ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed.