From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Message from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to both houses of the Mississippi Legislature, suggesting a change in the Exemption Act of 1865 dealing with taxation and debt relief.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Message from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to the Mississippi State Senate and House of Representatives, recommending changes to an Act approved on February 13, 1867, concerning the Mississippi Yazoo-Delta levee commissioners and the collection of taxes by said commissioners and the respective county sheriffs.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from E. S. Fisher at Long Beach, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the seizure of private property by the Confederate government without compensation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Voucher showing that Laura Carter had received one hundred dollars from Thomas Jones, the Commissioner of the Milldale District of Warren County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Annual report from John Duncan at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, on the operations of the Mississippi Institution for the Blind.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mary A. Christian at Forrest, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the impressment of her overseer into the Mississippi militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Sheriff G. W. Bradley at Augusta, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, stating that he cannot collect state and county taxes because of alleged threats from Confederate Army deserters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Senator Jeremiah L. Davis at Columbus, Mississippi, representing Yalobusha and Calhoun Counties, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking for relief of C. J. Worsham from payment of his bond.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Eugene W. Hilgard, the state geologist of Mississippi, at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the publication of his report on the geology of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Eliza Kraus at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that her business tax be refunded, as she fell ill and had to close the establishment. On the reverse, several citizens of Vicksburg endorse Kraus's petition.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Thomas A. Cocke at Charleston, Mississippi, to United States President Andrew Johnson, seeking to get back property taken by the United States Army during the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. A. Dowty, M. A. C. Kelsh, John Streker, B. Foley, and A. Bell at Fort Adams, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the taxes on their businesses be reduced.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from S. R. Fant at Brooksville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the business tax be waived, as he is a wounded veteran trying to get back to his family.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William M. Reid at Madison County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that his small business be exempted from the business tax.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Josiah Atkinson in Winston County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his business be waived. Atkinson states that he has a "considerable" family to support, and has previously lost almost everything he owned to a house fire, and was kept from working manual labor because of a fractured leg.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. V. Wilcox at Rodney, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the business tax on Charles Newman Jr.'s small business be waived. Newman lost all of his capital, in the form of seven hundred bales of cotton, during his time as a Confederate soldier.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from C. S. Fowler at Tibbee, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his new small business be reduced.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from State Geologist Eugene W. Hilgard at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, giving a summary of his actions during the war.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff M. Shannon at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, enclosing a list of those businesspeople in the city who cannot pay the full tax owed.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Otho Naylor in Louisville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his business be waived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William Merrill, superintendent for the Mississippi State Institution for the Blind in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, giving a statement on the condition of the facility.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from citizens of Hickory Station, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on the business of B. S. Horn be waived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Incomplete petition from A. B. Hardcastle and W. R. Hardcastle at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on their business be waived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Smith County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that Pettus convene the legislature to pass a law suspending the collection of debts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate General Samuel J. Gholson at Tibbee, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning payments to the 2nd Mississippi Cavalry and Ham's Battalion of Cavalry.