Estimate for August, 1796 a bal^ce due to D. Ames [underline: 136 dls] Estimate of expenditures on account of the United States, in aid & on account of the Armourers employed at Springfield in the Commonwealth of [underline: Massachusetts in making Public armes from August 1. to Septem^r 1. 1796]                                                                   Dollars  Cents Amount of pay roll for the month of August . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 540 . 00 For seven ton & a half of iron & 15 hundred wate of fleet wanted for a supply through the approaching winter and Spring . . . . . . . . . . [undecipherable] [undecipherable: to be supplied by the —] For grindstones vizt emery & Sand paper wanted . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 To pay for frate of Sea coals grindstones &c from Boston & Newyork to Hartford, & [posting?] from Hartford to Springfield . . . . . . . . 30 For contingent expences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50                                                                         1949 — 00 Septem^r 1. 1796 A true estimate                                           David Ames Supt^t [transmitted   S. 548 . 80] [Bal^ce          136 . —]