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The House Journal for 1862 includes a message from Governor John J. Pettus, dated Dec. 20, 1862, regarding such issues as draft of all white males from sixteen to sixty, slave labor, family of soldiers left to provide for themselves, need for salt, high prices of food, treasury notes, condition of the State Troops, and the Mississippi River.

The House Journal for 1863 includes a message from Governor John J. Pettus, dated Nov. 3, 1863, regarding such issues as the penitentiary, institutions for the deaf, dumb, blind and insane, impressment of horses, ordnance dept., adjutant general, removal of negroes, salt, wives, widows and children of soldiers, money, militia, salaries of state officers.

Includes the inaugural address of the newly elected Governor Charles Clark on Novemeber 16, 1863.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

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Transcribed from: Journal of the House of Representatives of the state of Mississippi : December session of 1862, and November session of 1863. Jackson : Cooper & Kimball, steam printers and binders, 1864. 328, 237 p. Includes inexes.

Documenting the American South.

The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

Legislation > Mississippi.

Legislative journals > Mississippi.

Mississippi > Politics and government > 1861-1865.

Mississippi > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Law and legislation.