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the Cost of paper made from Straw. It as you can see makes a Good and better printing paper than straw. Yet the Inventor needs the [[menenis?]] to put up a mill. this would Cost some 10,000 Dollars. Then the menes [[means]] to Collect Cut and Cure the Sedge. This would Cost 3 to 5 Dollars per ton Now is the season to Cut the Sedge- yet this man has not the Wharewith - and is now 74 years of age. 

The Government could well afford to give this man the menes [[means]] as a remuneration for the Forge and Gun Stocks &c.

I have just seen this man - He says - He should be pleased to print such primmer as you wish 5,000 copies of. He would furnish them for 10¢ the Copy- your Estimate is 20¢ He