From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a petition for pardon for Buck Jolly, convicted of larceny.

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 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. Letter from George Frazee at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that his tailor shop be exempted from the state tax.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Charles Niedermier at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his store be waived. Niedermier's petition is sworn before and witnessed by Terrence McGowan, justice of the peace for Rankin County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. M. Hancock in Quitman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Thomas Long, a tailor, be excused from Confederate military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter form C. G. Armistead in Coffeeville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that the court fees against R.C. George be waived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from citizens of Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning a pardon for Thomas Shaw, an African American man.