William H. H. Tison, temporary commission, April 21, 1857, permanent commission, May 17, 1858. _Southern District._ Fidelis S. Hunt, Jan. 13, 1841. Anderson Miller, temporary commission, April 15, 1841, permanent commission, July 22, 1841. Thomas Fletcher, temporary commission, March 24, 1845, permanent commission, Feb. 24, 1846. Fielding Davis, March 20, 1850. Richard Griffith, April 4, 1853, and also temporary commission, April 21, 1857, permanent commission, May 15, 1858. FOOTNOTES: [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. [102] _U. S. Statutes at Large_, vol. iii, p. 413. [103] _Ibid._ vol. iv, p. 773. [104] _Ibid._ vol. v, 247. _See also Revised Statutes_ of the United States (1878) Secs. 539, 552, and 572. [105] _Ibid._ vol. xiv, p. 48. [106] _Supplement Revised Statutes_, 1874-1891, pp. 344, 500, 547, 583, 584, 638, 639. [107] _Lynch's Bench and Bar of Miss._, p. 506. With the other Judges comprising the first court, he was quite unpopular, and in 1802 he abandoned his office.--Claiborne, pp. 209, 223, 231.