Accountants Office April 15^th 1797 I Certify that there is due to Michael G. Houdin Ordnance & Military Storekeeper at Albany, the sum of [underline: One hundred & twenty seven dollars 50¢,] being for his Salary from 1^st January to 31^st March 1797 inclusive which sum is payable to Samuel [undecipherable] Sen^r Clerk of the War Office, who is to be accountable. D^rs 127 ⁵⁰/100 W^m Simmons The Secretary of War Acct