From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 10 July 1792

To Alexander Hamilton

[Philadelphia] 10th July 1792.

Estimate of immediate Expenditures for the Mint.1

	Dollars.
Price of the House & Lot, to be paid on executing the Conveyance	4266.2/3
15 Tons of Copper, suppose 16 Cents ⅌ lb.	4800.
Repairs of the Buildings, Workmen’s wages &c.	933.1/3
Dollars	10,000.
David Rittenhouse

United States [Philadelphia] 10th July 1792

The Secretary of the Treasury will cause to be paid to the Director of the Mint, Ten thousand Dollars for the purposes above specified.

G: Washington

LB, DLC:GW.

1. For the background to this document, see GW to Thomas Jefferson and GW to David Rittenhouse, both 9 July 1792. For Rittenhouse’s earlier estimate of the funds needed by the U.S. Mint, which also totaled $10,000, see Jefferson to GW, 20 June (second letter).

Cite as: “From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 10 July 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-10-02-0365. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 10, 1 March 1792 – 15 August 1792, ed. Robert F. Haggard and Mark A. Mastromarino. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2002, pp. 534–535.]