The 2 tickets were bills for costs in the suit of Livingston v. Jefferson, to be paid to Marshall in his capacity as clerk of the United States Circuit Court for the Virginia District. The first ticket included a charge of forty-eight cents from May 1810 for “Atto: ads [attorney at the suit of] Livingston 24. order for secy. [security] for costs 24,” along with a $6.72 charge from June 1810 for “2 Copies of declaration ads Livingston” and another from December 1810 of $1.18 for “filing plea 47. order 24 filing secy: for costs 47,” for a total of $8.38 (MS in DLC: TJ Papers, 190:33811; in an unidentified hand; undated; docketed on verso: “Mr Jefferson $8.38 Cts” and “albemarle”; with TJ’s calculation on verso that he owed a total of $13.91). The second ticket consisted of charges from January 1811 of $1.88 for “filing 4 additional pleas ads Livingston,” forty-seven cents for “filing demurrer to his repl [replication] to plea of Jurisdiction,” and $2.35 for “filing 5 demurrers to 5 Counts in declaration.” A final charge of eighty-three cents from November 1811 covered “Judgment & Copy ads Livingston 48. filing papers 35,” bringing the total for the ticket to $5.53 (MS in DLC: TJ Papers, 192:34149; in an unidentified hand; undated; docketed on verso: “$5:53 Costs” and “albemarle”; with TJ’s notations on verso again calculating that he owed a total of $13.91 and indicating that this sum was “pd by ord. of Feb. 7. 16 on Gibson & Jefferson”).

The enclosed order on mr gibson for Marshall, not found, is recorded by TJ at 6 Feb. 1816: “13.91 for 2 tickets in Livingston’s suit + his charge for a copy of the decree & exn.” (MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1319).

When the United States Circuit Court decided the case of Livingston v. Jefferson on 5 Dec. 1811, costs were allowed to TJ, with John Wickham serving as security. For a different charge of defendant’s costs, see Decision of United States Circuit Court in Livingston v. Jefferson, 5 Dec. 1811, one of a group of documents on the dismissal of Livingston v. Jefferson; and TJ to Marshall, 13 July 1812.