From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Paul Koler, who was convicted of petit larceny.

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. Letter from Z. A. Philips, superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn. Philips writes to Hewson in response to his inquiry concerning an inmate whom Hewson called "James J. Fisher", but whom Philips identifies as J. J. Foster. The letter concerns money that had been paid to an attorney on behalf of the inmate.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Two letters from Sheriff O. Metcalfe of Adams County, Mississippi, at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey. In the first letter, dated July 28, 1865, Metcalfe asks if any tax relief can be offered to the impoverished people of Adams County. On the reverse, Metcalfe pens a second letter, dated July 29, 1865, asking if he is correctly collecting taxes from merchants who sell liquors and groceries.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, the general salt agent for the state at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, concerning the sale of the mules, wagons, and harnesses used by the agency.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James Shields at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his small family grocery store be waived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. P. King and Company in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking a state contract to make leather goods.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. Johnson at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a job as a leatherworker for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. A. Spivy at Winona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking an exemption from militia service for G. T. Holmes, a shoemaker.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Z. A. Philips of the Mississippi State Penitentiary to O. H. Crandall, recommending a pardon for William Brennan.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Jackson, Mississippi, to O. H. Crandall, informing him of the good conduct of James Bradley, a prisoner convicted of larceny in February 1868 by the Circuit Court of Desoto County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary Z. A. Philips to O. H. Crandall, providing the names, physical descriptions, birthplaces, and sentences of escaped men from the Mississippi Asylum for the Blind.