From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Doctor W. Kirk in Winston County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey. Kirk, a physician, has made very little profit since the beginning of the Civil War, and coupled with his cotton being taxed, asks for the tax on his business be waived. Kirk's petition is sworn before and witnessed by probate court clerk E. D. Hyde. On the third page, Josiah Atkinson and B. Frank Woodward endorse Kirk's character in a statement sworn before and witnessed by Hyde.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey to the unnamed sheriff of Winston County, Mississippi, authorizing the sheriff to remit the tax of Otho Naylor, and reduce the tax of Josiah Atkinson, who run a tavern and a grocery store respectively.