From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing movements of armed "white leagues" and their participation in racial violence.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames to support temperance movement in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mayor of Scooba, Mississippi H. Woods Jr. to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting clarification on a law concerning the issuing of liquor licenses.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, asking for the pardon of Peter and Rocco Misso, indicted for selling liquors to minors. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, pardoning Langston, Jarvis, Jones, Cullins, and Wiley, charged with willfully selling liquor to minors.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John Stevenson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, urging Ames to support a temperance bill adopted by citizens of Baldwyn, Mississippi. Included is a note from Fred. Barrett, Ames's private secretary, giving a summary of Stevenson's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. P. Smith to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing copies of indictments for six charges of selling liquor to a minor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, giving updates about Abe Hucabee, the Mitchell murder case, submission of a pay warrant for the governor's signature, and also noting that Dr. Emanuel had furnished the Secret Service agency with 5 half-price fare passes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that Burwell Jones be pardoned for selling spirituous liquors of less than one gallon to an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. W. Sanders, the dispenser of spirituous liquors for Carroll County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, giving a report on his distillery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Andrew Gibb of Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting an appointment as dispenser of spirituous liquors for Yazoo County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Franklin Smith at Jackson, Mississippi, to Confederate Brigadier General Wirt Adams, asking that the distillery of Passmore and Saunders be allowed to remain open.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from D. W. Johnston, assessor of Hancock County, Mississippi, at Gainesville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, stating that he had just received word of the tax on businesses in the state. Johnston also mentions a local businessmen who sells several goods in the same building, and asks if he must pay separate business tax for every good sold.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William L. Marsh at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his business be remitted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Daniel W. McInnis in Covington County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if McInnis has to have a presidential pardon because he was a dispenser of spirits and a postmaster under the Confederacy. McInnis states that he was opposed to secession, remained a Unionist throughout the Civil War, and never actually took the oath of office.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from B. H. Jones in Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it is illegal to sell liquor for medicinal purposes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. A. Dowty, M. A. C. Kelsh, John Streker, B. Foley, and A. Bell at Fort Adams, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the taxes on their businesses be reduced.

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 J. Campbell and H. M. Morris at Clarke County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking to be pardoned for selling liquor without a license. The two men state that they have been selling liquor at less than a gallon, and could not gain a license due to there being no tribunal to authorize one to them, but they have applied to the County Board of Police for one. Several citizens of Clarke County endorse the petition.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William Hemingway at Carrollton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending that Sam Coleburn be removed as tax assessor, alleging that Coleburn is often intoxicated and neglecting his duties.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from W. L. Abbott at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a barrel of his whiskey that was confiscated by the government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff O. Metcalfe of Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, giving a report on his collections of taxes in Adams County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff Lem Doty of Holmes County, Mississippi, at Goodman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, concerning the retail tax on dry good establishments that also sell liquor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. McGarrah at Quitman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his business be waived, as he is a disabled veteran and unable to pay it.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. P. Syler at Skipwith Landing, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if he has to pay the liquor tax on top of the business tax he has already paid.