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Title: Amos T. Akerman to James W. Schaumburg, 26 January 1871
Date: January 26, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01664
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January 26, 1871.
James W. Schaumberg, Esq.
No. 272 South Fourth st.
Philadelphia, Penn.
Sir:
I have received yours of the 19th instant, and enclose a copy of the Act of Congress establishing the Department of Justice, which I suppose is the Act to which you refer, there being none establishing the "Court of Justice." This Act does not establish a Court, but merely a new Executive Department; and therefore no rules of pleading have been established under it.
Upon examination of the opinions of the Attorneys General, I find none of Mr. Legaré, answering the description in your letter.
Very respectfully,
A. T. Akerman,
Attorney General.
sending Act, &c