Administrative files, 1865-1868,

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Administrative files, 1865-1868,

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The Governor is the chief executive of the state whose function is to administer the laws of the state. This series consists of the administrative files of Governor Patton. It contains correspondence, applications, canceled notes, financial records, letters, oaths of allegiance, petitions for pardons, proclamations, and reports. Subjects discussed include: appointments to and resignations from office, including appointments and dismissals in the Third Military District of the U.S., commanded by Major General George G. Meade, letters from destitute individuals and attempts by both the state and federal governments to assist them through the Freedmen's Bureau and other means, including a controversy in Demopolis, the Alabama Penitentiary in Wetumpka, the milita in Alabama, bankrupt individuals, race relations and labor contracts, a survey of the Coosa River, public education and institutions such as the University of Alabama, the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, salt supplies, taxes and taxation, the encouragement by the Governor and others of increasing industrialization in Alabama and immigration from Europe, railroads in Alabama and their growth and funding, the bonded indebtedness of the State of Alabama, a Justice of the Peace Commission, land leases in Calhoun County and St. Clair County for oil and gas exploration, and an attempt to organize a colonization society of African-Americans to go to Chile. In the correspondence files, many subjects are discussed. Many of the letters there are actually requests or recommendations for appointments. There are requests, however, for arms to secure areas from mobs, such as the letter in SG23023, folder 18, from the sheriff of Coosa County. In the state folder is a letter from Dr. Josiah C. Nott pleading for the Mobile Medical College to be released by the Freedmen's Bureau and restored to its position as a medical school. There are many requests for pardons to the Governor, as well as many petitions to him. The records also include the message to the General Assembly delivered on January of 1866.

Copies: 10 microfilm reels.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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