95 loaves of Bread L0 19 9 61-3/3 lb. Bacon, at 7d 1 14 1 148-1/2 lb. Beef at 3-1/2d 2 8 1 Potatoes and Greens 0 7 1 800 Limes at 4s 1 12 0 1-1/2 Barrels of Beer at 18s 1 7 0 44 lb. Mutton at 3-1/2d 0 12 8 37-3/4 lb. Veal at 3-1/2d 0 11 0 30 lb. Venison at 2d 0 5 0 Turnips 0 1 6 Pepper and Mustard 0 1 5 2 Jugs and Candles, Pipes and Tobacco 0 6 0 Butter 9s. 8d. Turkey 4s. 4 pair Fowls 9s 1 2 8 -1/4 of a hundred of Flour 0 3 6 Two former Hookings at getting on two Floors, and now for raising the Tower, 3 0 0 Fire Wood, etc. Provision was made in 1750 for the extension of the tower for the accommodation of a bell, and on October 16, 1751, the Superintendent of the State House sent a letter to the colonial agent in London. In this letter he said: "We take the liberty to apply ourselves to thee to get us a good bell, of about two thousand pounds weight, the cost of which we presume may amount to about one hundred pounds sterling, or, perhaps, with the charges, something more.... Let the bell be cast by the best workmen, and examined carefully before it is shipped, with the following words well-shaped in large letters round it, viz:-- "'By order of the Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, for the State House in the city of Philadelphia, 1752,' "And underneath, "'Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land to all the inhabitants thereof--Levit. XXV. 10.'" When the new bell was hung it was cracked by a stroke of the clapper. Isaac Norris wrote: "We concluded to send it back by Captain Budden, but he could not take it on board, upon which two ingenious workmen undertook to cast it here, and I am just now informed they have this day opened the Mould and have got a good bell, which, I confess, pleases me very much, that we should first venture upon and succeed in the greatest bell cast, for aught I know, in English America. The mould was finished in a very masterly manner, and the letters, I am told, are better than [on] the old one. When we broke up the metal, our judges here generally agreed it was too high and brittle, and cast several little bells out of it to try the sound and strength, and fixed upon a mixture of an ounce and a half of copper to one pound of the old bell, and in this proportion we now have it."