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              <text>From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Caroline Burrus to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking that the tax on her inn be waived, as she is a widow and very poor.</text>
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              <text>Funding for this project provided by The Dale Center for Study of War and Society-USM, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the Mississippi Digital Library, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Watson-Brown Foundation</text>
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