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Title: Amos T. Akerman to A. Burton, 14 March 1871
Date: March 14, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.01786
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March 14, 1871.
Mrs. A. Burton, Grand Hotel,
San Francisco, Cal.
Madam:
I have received your letter of the 4th instant, transmitted by Senator Cole.
From the representations of your friends, I have a strong personal desire to accommodate you in the matter of the Jamuel Rancho. But other parties adversely interested protest against such a disposition of the case as you desire; and under these circumstances I do not feel at liberty to dismiss the appeal, and thus abandon forever a claim of the United States which many parties suppose to be good, without perfect assurance that your title is utterly unassailable in law. The slight investigation which I have been able to give to the subject has not yet satisfied me that such is the case. Should I become so satisfied, I will dismiss the appeal.
Very respectfully,
A. T. Akerman,
Attorney General.
California case "Jamuel rancho"