[315] hundred and twenty dollars to be paid to the order of Michael G. Houdin at Albany, being for his pay from 1^st of April to 30^th of September 1794 inclusive. — Major Vanily will present you this order for this sum, if he has not left New York, but it is to be released to remit the same as speedily as possible. — Nicholas Fish Esq^r Sam. Hob. h. Supervisor, New York. Benj^r Millin, In the absence of the D.A.^t W. D. Accountants Office Sir, October 22, 1794½ I have remitted to Nicholas Fish Esq^r upon your Salary from 1^st April to 30^th [undecipherable: September?] 1794 inclusive amounting to One hundred & twenty dollars which I expect will be paid to your order in favor of Major Vanily or be committed to you. — I find by your statement of an account of Contingent expenses to which you received two hundred dollars in advance that there remains in your hands a balance of upwards of Two hundred dollars as I presume this [undecipherable] is at an end you will send in the vouchers under cover to the City of New