From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John J. Smith to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a report on investigation into improper withholding of funds.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James R. Cavett to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing attempts to settle dispute between Noxubee County, Mississippi, supervisors and Sheriff W. M. Conner.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke in Greensville, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting allegations of improperly withheld funds from the state of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from the grand jury of Noxubee County, Mississippi, containing a report finding that the board of supervisors of the county misused public funds.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing movements of armed "white leagues" and their participation in racial violence.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Clarence Cullers to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending Lee Jarvis to collect delinquent revenues in Union County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. J. McWilliams in Fulton, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing the financial statement of Itawamba County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from F. Heiderhoff in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that the sheriff of Hancock County, Mississippi, is neglecting his duties as tax collector.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the controversial sheriff's election in Yazoo City, Mississippi and the subsequent murder of one of the claimants.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning county sheriffs who are in default on the collection of taxes.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. J. M. Girault in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that her husband's damage fees be waived.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Major C. C. Shackleford and other petitioners in Madison County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting executive clemency for Samuel Vanvactor, a formerly enslaved African-American man convicted of "unlawful cohabitation."
