Report Written by Henry Voigt

This report was written to request additional horse power and contains detailed information regarding the coinage process.

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In! 1) Chrording to your request I have made everyfort that can postibly be done withfull Horses in the millewhich A moves the machinery for the robing Drawing and butting in the only mint of the UI. and I find of 5 Horses are kept, -lay mef to change every hour, it is very hard work to leget one hundred Ingots through the whole hone of the different professional in the time a Noted for working hours, buly 6 horses kept, it could be done with a greater a these Hundred ingols do weigh from 320 to 330 pouids troy weight and will produce two Thousand light or Nine Hundred pieces for Dollars according as the selver is; some is much better for to work, than others: if the silver works sound, one third only will bee made into Glippings; but if bad more is made,for where there is a track in in a plate of silver, and a Dollar cutt out with the crack therein, that Dollarion Dollar planchit will be two light; and therefore must be melted over again with the blipping and the happens more or life in every pancel of Ingols, in spite of all care to hen in hobbing as well as basting the same: this is a lof of time and workpbut cannot be avoided If the mint could keep two settiof horses, and cha change them every hour, more work might be expected in the same time; and I believe that then, the mint could