[William Simmons Esquire Accountant for the depart^t of War Philadelphia] New London August 16.^th 1798 Sir I have herewith trans-mitted to you my Estimate to the 31.^st of July 1798 for One Hundred and Fifty dollars 75 Cents which please pay to Samuel Hodgdon esquire. I am very Respectfully Sr your Obedient Servant William Simmons esq^r W.^m Holts [Docket on verso: Estimate of expen-ditures at New London to 31. July 1798 — dollars 150/75] [undecipherable] Estimate of expenditures on Account of the United States At New London Virginia from the 1.^st of April to the 31.^st of July 1798. To James Callaway For Rent of sundry Houses to hold Artillery Stores at 29 dolls 16⅔ cents per Month . . . 116.66⅔ " Anthony Evans " Rent of a full set of Blacksmiths Tools for the use of the Armoury late at this place from the 1.^st of March 1796 to the 31.^st of March 1797 not brought forward in any former estimates . . . 16 " " Joseph Slaughter " 15½ days work employed in March and April last in assisting to pack the Arms in Chests at 1 dollar 16⅔ cents per day . . . 18 8⅓ dollars 150 75. 144. 16 294. 91 Tho.^s Holts