[96] The lists of Judges, Attorneys and Marshals presented below were compiled from the records of the State Department and the Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. In the multiplicity of Mississippi books, there is nothing of a special character relating to the above title, and so far as is known this particular data has never heretofore been published.
The principal repository for early Mississippi history, Claiborne's Mississippi (1880), contains an account of the jurisprudence of the Territory and State, Chapter XXXII, pp. 467-482. In Goodspeed's Memoirs of Miss. (1891), Vol. I, p. 101, it is stated that Judge A. M. Clayton contributed this chapter.
In James D. Lynch's Bench and Bar of Mississippi (1881), there is an imperfect account of the judicial establishment, with a large number of valuable biographical sketches, and portraits.
Goodspeed's Memoirs of Miss. (2 vols., 1891), has a Chapter on "The Legal and Judicial History" of the State, vol. I, pp. 100-131, with portraits.
The original materials are contained in the United States Statutes, the Mississippi Codes and the Session Laws, and the Reports of the Supreme Court of the State.
[97] U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. i, pp. 549-550.
[98] U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. ii, p. 69. See Claiborne, for account of laws passed by Governor and judges, second grade of government, &c., pp. 209, 211, 212, 214, 217, 218, 223, 224, 530.
[99] U. S. Statutes at Large, vol. ii, pp. 301, 563.
[100] It is beyond the scope of this paper, which is almost purely statistical, to enter into a review of the various territorial courts, or "systems" of judicature projected, &c. For full discussion, see Claiborne and Goodspeed.
[101] U. S. Statutes at Large, vol ii, p. 806.