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''Seventh.'' That whenever any articles constituting the whole, or any part of the ration, shall not be in store, and withheld from the officers and soldiers, 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 of the ration, shall not be in store, and withheld from the officers and soldiers, 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 Charles Wilkins 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.
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''Tenth.'' That escorts and guards for the safety of the provisions, and for the protecting of the cattle against the enemy, that be furnished, whenever, in opinion of the commanding general of the army, or of any post, to whom application may be made, the same [obscured] prejudice to the service, and that the said Charles Wilkins shall not be [obscured] for any deficiency of supplies, at any of the said posts or places, if it shall appear upon satisfactory proof that such deficiency was occasioned by the want of proper escorts and guards.