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Scope and Content Note

These volumes were used to track the status of applications to the governor for pardons or commutations of sentence. Volume 1 has pages labeled "Statement showing condition of applications for Executive Clemency" and overlaps in coverage with entries in Volume 2. Volumes 2-5 were originally labeled J, K, L, and M and are apparently the only extant lettered volumes in this now fragmentary series. The volumes generally provide the following information (with some variations in format and inclusiveness) about the status of clemency applications: application number; date(s) of application(s); journal number and page (volumes 2-5 only; no indication of what journals are being cited); name; county; crime; court (volumes 2-5 only); date of sentence (volumes 2-5 only); term; date received at prison; date term expires; prison; disposition (pardon or commutation granted or denied and date); writ to (volume 2-5 only; gives name of person, e.g. prison warden, to whom writ was delivered); and date of actual discharge (volumes 2-5 only)