From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from P. B. Starke, Thos. W. Stinger, and T. J. Mitchell, members of a committee appointed to assess the affairs of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing the results of the committee's investigation into the condition of the penitentiary - including plantations leased by the penitentiary where some convicted persons, mostly African Americans, are made to perform labor - and its inmates. There are several pages of information concerning some inmates needing medical attention, some inmates whom the committee believed were improperly convicted, and recommended pardons or commutations of sentences. Appended are additional "special reports" concerning particular cases and persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Catalog entitled "Catalogue of the Library of the State of Mississippi" listing the holdings of the Mississippi State Library as of January 1865. The catalog contains alphabetized lists of legal reports from various states, elementary and miscellaneous law texts, legal codes, governmental documents from the United States and the individual states, and historical and literary texts. (This document is the enclosed catalog mentioned in mdah_768-950-05-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Executive document from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing his response to the petition for executive clemency for Creed Taylor, in which he commutes Taylor's sentence of death to life imprisonment. (This document is a response to mdah_786-971-05-10).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. H. Jones, Sheriff of Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking what to do with his prisoners as the county has no working court system.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. D. Ranch in Tippah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting permission to create a home guard to protect the citizens from an alleged insurrection by enslaved people.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petitions from citizens of Raymond, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, in favor of Dora Sorsby (alias Dora Evans) whom petitioners claim was wrongfully convicted of poisoning an infant.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Atwood to O. H. Crandall, responding to a request by Crandall for an appropriation of funds to send the stomach of a person suspected of being poisoned to Louisville, Kentucky, for analysis.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George F. Brown at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, soliciting funds to send the stomach of an alleged poisoning victim to Louisville, Kentucky, for analysis.