From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Copy of a contract for leasing convicts to Charles S. Jobes in Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Erving Cowan in Bay St. Louis to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, telling Governor Ames that Mr. Cowan applied for an inspectorship in the customs house.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document containing a contract between the Mississippi State Penitentiary and the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road to supply inmates for labor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Doctor Reverend B. H. Gotthelf to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, applying for a position as the Inspector to the Penitentiary for his region of the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mississippi Secretary of State James D. Lynch to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that George W. Walton has resigned the office of Inspector of Provisions for the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Lynch's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from James K. Mulkey to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting to be appointed as a United States Steamboat Detective and offers to work without salary by financing the position with government levied fines. Mulkey explains that the ongoing negligence from steamboat workers and corruption from the inspectors is the reason for many of the steamboat disasters. He believes this can be remedied by taking up this position.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. C. Napier from Demopolis, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, recommending individuals who might fill his job at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John McDonald at Philadelphia, Mississippi, to Colonel E. Surget, concerning the large number of deserters from the Confederate Army serving in the Mississippi militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Annual report from H. Hobbs to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark on the operations of the Mississippi Lunatic Asylum. Also included is a letter dated October 6, 1864, from Dr. Robert Kells, superintendent of the asylum, explaining supplies needed by the asylum and asylum employees whom he requests to be exempt from conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from M. G. Moore, the warden of the Alabama Penitentiary at Wetumpka, Alabama, to Alabama Governor Thomas H. Watts, reporting on the prisoners from Mississippi whom the Alabama Penitentiary is temporarily holding. Then-Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus ordered that these prisoners be transferred from the Mississippi State Penitentiary to Alabama in 1863 through an agreement with then-Alabama Governor John G. Shorter. M. G. Moore's letter consists of handwritten copies of correspondence between Pettus, Shorter, Moore, and the Alabama Penitentiary board of inspectors regarding the transfer of the Mississippi prisoners as well as questions about the legality of Shorter's right to accept the prisoners and whether they can require the prisoners to perform labor. Moore intersperses brief explanations about these circumstances and his own actions throughout the letter. Appended to the letter is a receipt for prisoner-related expenses.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from D. P. Porter, the secretary of the Mississippi Senate, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark that the Mississippi Legislature confirmed the appointments for inspectors of the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

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 the Mississippi conscript laws, bonds, the Mississippi State Penitentiary, and appointment of judges to office.

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 Sheriff O. Metcalfe of Adams County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, with questions concerning the state business tax.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Charles E. Michel, a surgeon at Enterprise, Mississippi, asking for cotton to be used for medical purposes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of Mississippi prisoners held in the Alabama State Penitentiary who volunteered to enter the Confederate Army. (List is the enclosed document mentioned in mdah_757-945-04-11).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Alabama Governor John G. Shorter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, enclosing a list of Mississippi prisoners in the Alabama Penitentiary. (List moved to box 29434)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. General Orders No. 9 from Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles at Grenada, Mississippi, providing instructions for the mustering and organization of Mississippi state troops. (General Orders No. 9 is the enclosed document mentioned in mdah_757-942-03-01).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major A. M. Paxton at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark he was impressing stock in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from P. M. Wilson at Oxford, Mississippi, to Major William Atwood, enclosing a list of registered voters in Beat One, Lafayette County, Mississippi, who did not vote in the December 30, 1869 election.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from First Lieutenant W. H. Campion at Jackson, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, including an enclosed abstract of voters from other counties in Pike County, Mississippi, and other papers returned for correction.