From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Brookhaven, Mississippi and Lincoln County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon of Barbary Johnson, convicted of assault and battery. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Copiah County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of Emanuel Selman, convicted of attempted rape. Endorsements and pardon included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. B. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting on the condition of overflowed land between Beulah, Mississippi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George Rodgers in Chicago, Illinois to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, including a business proposal for plantations worked by Chinese laborers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. T. Martin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that floodwater is subsiding, but supplies are still needed.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George E. Hasie to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, telling the situation of the overflow sufferers and asking for more aid.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Benjamin A. Lee to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a summary of a citizens' meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi, concerning the overflow of the Mississippi River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John M. Burke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting an amendment to a lien law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking that the Governor do something to assist the African American population in Holmes County, Mississippi. Included is a note from one of Ames's private secretaries giving a summary of John's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. 100 dollar bond issued to Mississippi State Auditor Henry Musgrove, signed by Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn and Mississippi State Treasurer William H. Vassar.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Legislative document from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to the Mississippi Legislature, concerning money and land grants to aid in the construction of levees in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. He explains that it is important for the revival of the cotton industry and he makes reference to it's standing in the global cotton economy, specifically noting the Manchester Cotton Supply Association as competition.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Certified copy of an indictment from the grand jury of Carroll County, Mississippi, against three men for the murder of Arnold J. Brantley. The document is certified by R. C. Hansbrough, clerk of the circuit court. (This document is the enclosed indictment mentioned in mdah_786-973-07-11).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Anderson Rutland to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, recounting the events of how he was first imprisoned during the Civil War for horse theft and how he came to be released, only to be rearrested. He is asking Alcorn to review his case to see if his second arrest was legal in hopes that Alcorn would order his release.

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. Requisition from E. Smith, superintendent of the State Asylum at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting funding needed for the asylum.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Message from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to both chambers of the Mississippi Legislature, stating that he is returning to them House Bill 244 without his approval, and defines reasons for this action.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. The Tenth Annual Report of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum by Superintendent Robert Kells.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from an unnamed person (possibly Z. A. Philips, general salt agent for Mississippi) onboard the steamboat "Admiral" to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the use of Mississippi's convicts for labor in Alabama. (mdah_768-949-06-33 is the "enclosed document" referred to.)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Stewart, Chief of Ordnance at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the condition of his department.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Receipt from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark to Mississippi State Treasurer M. D. Haynes, showing that Haynes had received the treasury warrant from Clark for two hundred and sixty-seven dollars.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William J. Keller, tax assessor of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, giving his report on the collection of taxes in Wilkinson County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John Shanks, tax assessor of Clarke County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his assessment for the county on the property purchased during the war.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John McRae, tax assessor of Kemper County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking about tax exemptions.

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 T. C. Tupper at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the merchant tax on his son's business be reduced or eliminated. On the reverse, Will J. Bailey endorses Tupper's request.