The first page of this four-page document lists five items for which Samuel L. Adair requested payment ($21.25) from the Kansas State Central Committee. These items included provisions, medicine, the "balance yet unpaid of money advanced to pay lawyers fees for prisoners at Tecumsee in June last," and the "bill paid for lumber and nails for coffin of Frederick Brown & David Garrison," two of the men killed during the battle of Osawatomie, Kansas Territory, on August 30, 1856. The accompanying letter justified the requested payment.