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            ''' ''Articles of Agreement0'', made on the '''Third - '''day of''' July    '''Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred '''and one '''between''' Henry Dearborn <s>'''SAMUEL DEXTER'''</s>''', Secretary for the Department of War of the United States of America, of the one part, and '''William Colfax, of the State of New Jersey [flourish] of the other part.
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''Articles of Agreement'', made on the '''Third - '''day of''' July    '''Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred '''and one '''between''' Henry Dearborn <s>'''SAMUEL DEXTER'''</s>''', Secretary for the Department of War of the United States of America, of the one part, and '''William Colfax, of the State of New Jersey [flourish] of the other part.
  
  
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              ''First''. That the said William Colfax, his executors or administrators, shall supply, and issue all the rations, to consist of the articles hereinafter specified, that shall be required of him or them for the use of the United States, at all, and every place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the states of New Jersey & New York, thirty days notice being given, of the poll or place, where rations may be wanted, or the number of troops to be furnished on the march, from the first day of January which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and two until the thirty first day of December of the same year, inclusive at the following prices, that is to say, at any place where rations shall be issued within the states of New Jersey and New York aforesaid, where the daily issues shall be upwards of two hundred Fifteen cents and five mills, and where the daily issues shall be two hundred or [undecipherable], Sixteen Cents and five mills.
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''First''. That the said William Colfax, his executors or administrators, shall supply, and issue all the rations, to consist of the articles hereinafter specified, that shall be required of him or them for the use of the United States, at all, and every place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the limits of the states of New Jersey & New York, thirty days notice being given, of the poll or place, where rations may be wanted, or the number of troops to be furnished on the march, from the first day of January which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and two until the thirty first day of December of the same year, inclusive at the following prices, that is to say, at any place where rations shall be issued within the states of New Jersey and New York aforesaid, where the daily issues shall be upwards of two hundred Fifteen cents and five mills, and where the daily issues shall be two hundred or [undecipherable], Sixteen Cents and five mills.
  
 
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          Where the price of the Ration shall be fifteen cents and five mills; Bread or flour, Six Cents; Meat, Six Cents; Liquor, two cents; Small parts, one cent five mills.
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Where the price of the Ration shall be fifteen cents and five mills; Bread or flour, Six Cents; Meat, Six Cents; Liquor, two cents; Small parts, one cent five mills.
  
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Where the price of the Ration shall be sixteen cents and five mills; Bread or flour, Six Cents; Meat Six cents five mills; liquor two Cents five mills; small parts one cent five mills.
  
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          Where the price of the Ration shall be sixteen cents and five mills; Bread or flour, Six Cents; Meat Six cents five mills; liquor two Cents five mills; small parts one cent five mills.
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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.
  
  
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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.
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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 cafes 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 cafes 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.
  
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'' Third.'' That supplies shall be furnished by the said William Colfax at the fortified places and military polls, that are or may be established in the state aforesaid upon the requisition of the commandant of the army, in such quantities as shall not exceed what is sufficient for the troops to be there stationed, for the space of three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, consisting of due proportions of all the articles forming the ration.
  
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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 cafes 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 cafes 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.
 
  
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Is is understood that if the contractor shall be 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, the expences of transportation to such other place or post, shall be borne by the United States.  
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              '' Third.'' That supplies shall be furnished by the said William Colfax at the fortified places and military polls, that are or may be established in the state aforesaid upon the requisition of the commandant of the army, in such quantities as shall not exceed what is sufficient for the troops to be there stationed, for the space of three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, consisting of due proportions of all the articles forming the ration.
 
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                Is is understood that if the contractor shall be 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, the expences of transportation to such other place or post, shall be borne by the United States.