Letter from Sheriff C. Lindsey to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 10, 1865

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Letter from Sheriff C. Lindsey to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 10, 1865

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Davis, Thomas N.Lindsey, C.Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873

Events

Conventions Conventions--Mississippi. Constitutional Convention (1865)Finances Finances--Collecting of accounts Taxation

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Judges Judges. Probate Law and Practice Law Enforcement Law Enforcement--Sheriffs Tax Assessors

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Mississippi--Choctaw County Mississippi--Hinds County. Jackson

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Disease and illness

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To His Excellency W. L Sharkey Provisional Governor of Mississippi.

The undersigned sheriff of Choctaw County in obedience to your Proclamation of July [gap] 1865 upon the subject of collecting the revenue of this county to meet the currant expenses of the Convention shortly to assemble in Jackson, begs leave to report that he has received no assessm-ent from the assessor of this county & has consequently collected nothing. He here states for the information of your Excellency that he has just received information from the assessor who informed him that he had been verry unwell for some time past but was now convaliscent & would in a short time enter upon the discharge of the duties of his office of assessor—So soon as the assessment is made it shall be promply attended to—

Respectfully submitted

C. Lindsey

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 10^th. day of August 1865.

Tho N Davis Judge
Probate Choctaw Cty

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C. Lindsey
Sheriff of Choctow

Explaining why he has sent no taxes in