The recipient, whose signature is only partially legible, was paid 2,900 pounds at a rate of 300 pounds per month, not including 100 pounds reserved for the costs of his journey. Ethis de Corny accompanied Lafayette to America in March 1780 to prepare for the departure of Rochambeau's army and returned to France in 1781. Countersigned by Ethis de Corny as Provincial Commissioner of War.