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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Thomas H. Talbot, 17 June 1870
Date: June 17, 1870
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01377
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June 17, 1870.
T. H. Talbot, Esq.
Assistant Attorney General.
Sir:
I send enclosed a copy of a Resolution of the Senate of the United States, dated June 17, 1870, asking to be informed in regard to the practice of the Court of Claims in the matter of remanding, for further evidence or argument, cases submitted—and desire that you will prepare, as soon as possible, a formal communication to be submitted to me, that I may examine it, and, if approved, send it to the senate
Very respectfully,
E. R. Hoar, Attorney General.
Senate Res. of inquiry.