[A 6^m 557 Sam^l. Hughes rect [underline: Drs 500]] Cecil furnace the 5^th janvuary 1795 Sir Not being acquainted with the custom of this country, and knowing not what formalities [strikethrough: by should take] to receive my allowance I desired you to be to good as to give me some tokens for the purpose, if you judge that a power from me will be sufficient, Colo Hughes to whom I have commissioned it will be to good as to give a receipt for the sum of three hundred dollars he is empowered by the present letter I have the honnour with tapeel Sir your most hble and ob^t. Servant (Signed) Drancy Translated by C.p. Bourcherese [Major John Stagg J^r. Chief Clerks in the War office— Philadelphia] M^r. Bourcherefse is employed in the War office as Translator of the French language— [undecipherable] Stagg his [undecipherable] Roy Clk. W.D.