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Contains correspondence with electoral boards, including certifications for local electoral boards.

I. General correspondence, 1865. This series includes routine correspondence addressed to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, as well as correspondence addressed to Governor Pierpont and referred to the Secretary. Also includes some outgoing correspondence of Governor Pierpont. Much of the routine correspondence is in relation to appointments, resignations, pardons, elections, and state publications. Some noteworthy correspondence in this series includes: letter from Gov. Pierpont to the General Assembly re: irregularities in the conduct of the Board of Directors of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum (Jan. 10, 1865); appointment and oath of the Secretary of the Commonwealth (Apr. 1, 1865); inventory of the Executive Mansion (June 2, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont to the Board of Visitors of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind in Staunton, Va. re: treatment of pupils by the Superintendent (June 7, 1865); letter to Gov. Pierpont from the Superintendent of the State Penitentiary (Aug. 9, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont re: revocation of authorization to pilots (Sept. 10, 1865); circular from the Secretary of the Commonwealth to county justices regarding indigent white persons in their districts (Sept. 12, 1865) - reponses from justices occur over the next several months; special report of the Superintendent of the Western Asylum (Oct. 17, 1865); copy of the charter of the Southern Union Telegraph Co. (Nov. 9, 1865); letter from U.S. Secretary of the Interior William Seward re: ratification of amendment against slavery (Nov. 18, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont to the House of Delegates re: death of Littleton W. Tazewell (Dec. 5, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont to the General Assembly re: Day of Thanksgiving (Dec. 6, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont to the General Assembly re: State Penitentiary guards (Dec. 13, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont to Maj. Gen. Terry re: protection of white citizens in southern and eastern Virginia (December 11, 1865); letter from Gov. Pierpont to Hon. Hugh McCullough, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury re: collection of taxes in Virginia (Dec. 20, 1865).

Arranged into the following series: Series I. Applications and recommendations for appointments to state positions, 1870-1873, 1883; Series II. Applications and recommendations for appointments as Inspector of Tobacco, 1870-1876; Series III. Applications and recommendations for appointments as local officials, 1870; Series IV. Correspondence from governors of other states, 1869-1874; Series V. Miscellaneous records, 1872-1906; Series VI. Penitentiary papers, 1867-1897; Series VII. Records of various state institutions and asylums, 1870-1897; Series VIII. Notifications of candidacy, 1900; Series IX. Miscellaneous papers of the Adjutant General, 1880-1897; Series X. Contracts and bonds for printing, 1903-1919; and Series XI. Contracts and bonds for ruling and binding, 1903-1919.