Accountants Office December 7^th 1798 I certify that there is due to Michael G Houdin M S k at Albany the sum of eighty six Dollars ²/oo being balance due him on settlement of his account of disbursements, which sum is to be paid to Mr Samuel Hodgdon per order of the said Michael G Houdin D^rs 86.2 W Simmons Acct^t D^t War The Secretary of War --- Accountants Office Decem^r 7^th 1798 I certify that there is due to Tobias Lear Secretary to the Commander in Chief Lieut General George Washington the sum of Three hundred fifty nine Dollars & twenty eight cents, being for his pay Subsistence & Forage from the 1^st September (the date of his appointmen[t]) to the 30 November 1798 W Simmons Acc^t D^t War Pay of the Army 225.- Subs^t of d^o 98.25 Forage 36.- Doll^rs 359.25 The Secretary of War N^o 3503