[English Translation]

I have received from Mr. Monevon, Director of the Tobacco Manufactures in Paris, the sum of eight thousand three hundred seventy livre four sols that had been delivered him by Mr. de la Perouse, captain of the King's ships, in order to have me receive money on the part of my son, de Grandchain, major of the squadron of Mr. le Chve. de Ternay, done at Grandchain this twenty-eighth December, seventeen hundred eighty.

Semerville de Louye.