From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, giving notice of the Senate's confirmation of county officers for Panola County, Mississippi, and municipal officers for the towns of Panola, Sardis, and Batesville, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from members of the Mississippi Constitutional Convention at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that Alexander B. Bradford be appointed marshal for his Judicial District.