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             ''Second.''  That the ration to be furnished and delivered by virtue of this 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 a half pound of sifted of bolted 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 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, [undecipherable] [undecipherable] whiskey, or other ardent spirits, and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 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 hereinbefore inserted.