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MUM01693
Finding-Aid for State and Federal Documents Related to the State of Mississippi(MUM01693)
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Title:
State and Federal Documents Related to the State of Mississippi
Materials in:
English
Quantity:
1 folder
Number:
MUM01693
Location:
A1-A3 [Small Manuscripts]
Container:
Box 1979-11
Repository :
The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives
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State and Federal Documents Related to the State of Mississippi(MUM01693). Small Manuscripts. The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.
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Obtained in 1979.
1. "Memorial of a Committee of the Board of Trade of Columbus, Miss., asking An appropriation for the improvement of the Tombigbee River. March 1, 1875". printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: A memorial to the US House of Representatives and Senate asking for $50,000 to clean up a section of the Tombigbee River to make it navigable so that cotton bales could be taken to Mobile by river, bypassing the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and its $5 per bale fee.
Scope Note2. Report of the Committee on Military Affairs to the House of Representatives. May 5, 1886. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The Committee reports on the need to improve the road from Vicksburg to the National Cemetary.
Scope Note3. "Petition of Members of the Senate and House of Representatives of Mississippi, Praying That a law be enacted similar to the bill known as the 'Sumner amendment to the general amnesty bill.' April 17, 1872". printed document. 3 pages.
Scope Note: Remarkable document claiming culpability for the state of African Americans and denouncing the system of slavery that enriched Whites and demoralized Blacks.
Scope Note4. Letter from Wm. M. Belknap, Secretary of War, referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, February 12, 1872. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The letter reports information regarding the service of Francis V. De Costa, acting captain of Company D, First Battalion Mississippi Marine Brigade Cavalry.
Scope Note5. "Memorial of the Choctaw Citizens of the State of Mississippi, to the Congress of the United States. December 15, 1841". printed document. 5 pages.
Scope Note: The Memorial cites Article 14 of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, which allowed Choctaws to remain in Mississippi and which entitled those who stayed to a "reservation of one section of six hundred and forty acres of land," and pleads that the US honor this portion of the treaty by granting said lands.
Scope Note6. Petition relative to Levees on the Mississippi, June 1, 1836, submitted to the US Congress by memorialists living near the Mississippi River in Louisiana. printed document. 4 pages.
Scope Note: The petition requests that a levee be built both for flood control and to drain a great deal of land, making it suitable for cultivation.
Scope Note7. "Petition of the Citizens of the State of Mississippi, Remonstrating against Indian Claims, February 1, 1836". printed document. 3 pages.
Scope Note: The petition remonstrates against Choctaw land claims citing that "agents beyond the Mississippi, and at home, produced documents purporting to be powers of attorney from Indians to select lands, and transfer their rights to lands selected." These claims, write the memorialists enrich the speculators who cheat both the Choctaws and yeoman farmers seeking to acquire public land.
Scope Note8. "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information. . . in relation to the quantity of land entered at the office at Augusta. . . Mississippi, from its establishment to the year, 1830. April 23, 1836". printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: A list of figures of the number of acres entered at the Augusta, MS land office annually from 1824 to 1830.
Scope Note9. "Memorial of Citizens of Natchez in favor of Selecting that place as the site for a naval armory and dry dock. February 4, 1843". printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The memorial is a sales pitch promoting Natchez as the appropriate site for a proposed naval armory and dry dock.
Scope Note10. Report of the Committee on Invalid Pensions to the House of Representatives. April 8, 1890. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The report recommends that Sarah A. Smail be paid a pension on behalf of her brother, James H. Smail, killed in battle at Iuka, MS, 1862.
Scope Note11. S. 49 in Senate of the United States. December 30, 1835. A Bill for the Relief of Andrew Knox. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The bill proposes to authorize the purchase of a township in the Choctaw district by Andrew Knox of Washington County. "Reported without Amendment, and recommending its rejection."
Scope Note12. S. 93. In Senate of the United States. January 25, 1836. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The bill proposes to remove the land office from Clinton to Jackson, MS.
Scope Note13. S. 205. In Senate of the United States. April 6, 1836. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The bill proposes to donate 640 acres of public lands to the trustees of common schools In township eight, range eleven east, State of Mississippi.
Scope Note14. S. 152. In the House of Representatives. January 26, 1839. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: The House Committee on Roads and Canals proposed this amendment to the Senate Bill, "An act to relinquish to the State of Mississippi the two per cent. Fund accruing by the act for the admission of said State into the Union."
Scope Note15. S. 106. In Senate of the United States, January 29, 1845. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Military Affairs, "A Bill making an appropriation for the building of barracks at Pass Christian."
Scope Note16. S. 114. In the Senate of the United States. March 9, 1846. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, A Bill for the relief of Harriet L. Catching. Resolved that Catching is released from payment of a judgment against her in US circuit court of the southern district of Mississippi.
Scope Note17. S. 13. In the Senate of the United States. December 16, 1845. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Lands. A bill appropriating alternate section of the public Lands for the improvement of Pearl River.
Scope Note18. S. 254. In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1846. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee of Claims. A Bill for the relief of John A. Rogers. The bill requires the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Rogers for his services as commissioner to examine the land offices in Alabama and Mississippi.
Scope Note19. S. 129. In the Senate of the United States. January 29, 1847. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads. A Bill for the relief of Alfred White. The Bill releases White from responsibility for the balance of a judgment against him.
Scope Note20. S. 333. In the Senate of the United States. July 28, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims. A Bill for the relief of the heirs and legal Representatives of Joseph McAffee, deceased. The Bill requires The Secretary of the Treasury to compensate Morgan McAffee for land that Joseph McAffee bought from the trustees of Jefferson College, "the title to which has totally failed."
Scope Note21. S. 345. In the Senate of the United States. August 7, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims. A Bill for the relief of John Crawford. Crawford owned a certificate for forfeited land stock, and the Bill allows him to locate that stock in Louisiana instead of Mississippi.
Scope Note22. S. 364. In the Senate of the United States. December 26, 1849. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Public Lands. A Bill granting to the State of Mississippi the right of way, and a donation of public land for the purpose of locating and constructing a railroad from Brandon to the eastern border of said State, in the direction of Montgomery, Alabama.
Scope Note23. S. 262. In the Senate of the United States. May 12, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on the Judiciary. A Bill to amend the Act entitled "An Act to Provide for the adjustment of land claims within the States of Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and those parts of the States of Mississippi and Alabama south of the 31st degree of north latitude, and between the Mississippi and Perdido rivers."
Scope Note24. S. 419. In the Senate of the United States. February 6, 1849. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: A Bill for the relief of John A. Rogers. The Bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Rogers for his service as commissioner to examine land offices in Mississippi and Alabama.
Scope Note25. S. 457. In the Senate of the United States. February 9, 1849. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: A bill for the relief of Mary B. Dix. Bill grants Dix her late husband's military pension.
Scope Note26. H. R. 226. December 14, 1818. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: A Bill for the relief of the legal representatives of Alexander Montgomery, deceased. Regarding a land claim in Mississippi based on a Spanish land grant.
Scope Note27. H. R. 3. December 19, 1845. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims, "A Bill to amend an act. . . entitled 'An act for the relief of George Mayfield. . .'"
Scope Note28. H. R. 318. March 27, 1846. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private land Claims, "A Bill for the Relief of Jose Carxillo," granting patent on a land claim.
Scope Note29. H. R. 437. May 11, 1846. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims, "A Bill for the relief of Isaac Guess," granting patent on a land claim.
Scope Note30. H. R. 321. In the House of Representatives. March 9, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee of Claims, "A Bill for the relief of Thomas B. Graham," authorizing compensation because the US steam frigate sunk Graham's flatboat on the Mississippi River.
Scope Note31. H. R. 350. In the House of Representatives. March 20, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims, "A Bill supplemental to an act to confirm the survey and location of claims for lands. . . east of the Pearl river and south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude. . ."
Scope Note32. H. R. 349. In the House of Representatives. March 20, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Public Lands, "A Bill to grant a quantity of land to the State of Mississippi, for the purpose of improving the Navigation of certain rivers in that state." The Pearle, Pascagoula, Leafe, Chickasawha, and Homo Chitto.
Scope Note33. H. R. 404. In the House of Representatives. April 18, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Commerce, "A Bill relating to the collection district of Pearl River. . ." The Bill designates Biloxi as the port of entry for the Pearl river, replacing Shieldsborough.
Scope Note34. H. R. 574. In the House of Representatives. June 20, 1848. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Public Lands, "A Bill granting a half section of land for the use of schools within the fractional township. . . county of Lowndes, State of Mississippi."
Scope Note35. H. R. 720. In the House of Representatives. January 16, 1849. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Reported by the Committee on Private Land Claims, "A Bill to extend the provisions of an act. . . entitled, 'An act to confirm the survey and location of claims for lands in the State of Mississippi, east of the Pearl River and south of the thirty-first degree of north latitude' to the district west of Pearl river.
Scope Note36. Proclamation of President John Quincy Adams, July 14, 1827. Photocopy, 1 page.
Scope Note: Announcing that a "Public Sale will be held at the Land Office at Washington, in the State of Mississippi. . ."
Scope Note37. Resolutions and Report of the Judiciary Committee. February 5, 1830. Photocopy, 2 pages.
Scope Note: Resolutions and report relative to the rights of the state of Mississippi to unappropriated lands in her Jurisdiction.
Scope Note38. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury. December 18, 1809. Photocopy, 36 pages.
Scope Note: Letter and Report prepared in obedience to a resolution requesting information regarding Any settlement contrary to law on the Public lands, in the County of Madison in the Mississippi Territory.
Scope Note39. H. R. documents to accompany a bill from the Senate (No. 41). March 18, 1826. printed document. 5 pages.
Scope Note: Documents supporting the need of an appropriation to repair the Post road between Jackson and Columbus.
Scope Note40. Constitution of the State of Mississippi, as amended with the ordinances and Resolutions adopted by the Constitutional Convention August, 1865. printed document. 56 pages.
41. Report of the Committee to whom was referred. . . the petition of. . . the City of Natchez. printed document. 6 pages.
Scope Note: Report recommending confirmation of title to land claimed by the city for "commons" between the houses and the river.
Scope Note42. Memorial of the Legislature of the state of Mississippi upon the subject of the lands acquired by treaty from Choctaw nation of Indians. printed document. 1 page.
Scope Note: Memorial requesting that the best lands in the Choctaw cession "be thrown open at the minimum price, in the proportion of one hundred and sixty acres for each head of a family in this State." The Memorialists argue that this will provide the state with a "permanent yeomanry."
Scope Note43. Message of the President, Jefferson Davis, December 20, 1864; Response of the Secretary of War, February 6, 1864; Communication of the Secretary of the Treasury, December 12, 1864. printed document. 15 pages.
44. Memorial of the Bar Association of the State of Mississippi to the US Congress. February 21, 1825. printed document. 7 pages.