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Attorney for Georgia: "I deem it my duty to report that it is currently rumored that the U. S.
I deem it my duty to report that it is currently rumored that the U. S.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of my commission as Attorney General of the United States
I herewith enclose my oath of allegiance, duly executed.
You will find that my predecessor, Mr.
This subject was referred to my Department by the President, was duly considered, and a Report thereon
Seward, Secretary of State, of August 14, 1868, to my predecessor, Mr.
It appears from a letter of my predecessor to the Dist.
In reply I have the honor to refer to an opinion given to the President by my predecessor in office,
I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the opinion of my predecessor, Mr.
to make any new case for the consideration of the Court, I do not see, as at present advised, that my
As I desire to do my duty under that resolution, I wish to be informed by any person who has knowledge
Attorney for the District of Georgia, by my predecessor, directing him to dismiss all suits and proceedings
undetermined, under the Acts mentioned, I see no reason to doubt that they are embraced by the instructions of my
The only object which my predecessor could have had in referring the subject to the U. S.
Attorney, and to give that officer the instructions contained in my letter to him.
As an original question, I should have had grave doubts upon it; but I did not think it my duty to suggest
received, is one clearly within the range of the instructions given to him, and the District Attorney; and my
Sir: I have the honor to enclose to you a copy of a letter from my assistant at the Court of Claims,
interests of the Government to incur the small expense suggested in the letter.— There is no fund under my
Sir: I am sorry to say that it hardly seems to me to belong to my official duty to attempt an answer
you find in the Territory—but fear that it is hardly practicable to remedy it by the transmission of my
Your return to Illinois for the purpose of settling your private business would meet my entire approval
continuously in them, ready to attend to whatever official duties may present themselves, and that in my
He does not answer my letter directed to him at Salem, and I do not know where he is to be found.
I shall send all the evidence in my power, if any more is found.
It was the purpose of my letter of the 13th inst. to inform you politely of a result, and I did not then
The questions you ask are not such as, in my opinion, it is his duty to answer.
I have not before me a copy of the concurrent resolution—but, if I had, it would not be my official duty
Sir: I respectfully call your attention to my letter to you of the 6th inst. relating to the suit of
While this force may be sufficient for the purely clerical needs of the office it is not, in my opinion
result, in a great degree, of inquiries orally made by me of persons from the Territory who came to my
In reply, I have to say that no official intelligence is in my possession, upon the subject,—and the
Sir: I have received your letter of the 24th ult. and the accompanying papers, submitting for my consideration
If he will show you my letter, which it will be entirely agreeable to me to permit, you will probably
that the joint resolution passed by Congress is not the resolution of which a copy was enclosed in my
If this cannot be done, I do not feel at liberty to make any other proposal than that contained in my
I have no right to give you my opinion upon these questions.
administration of the law, the Dept. of the Treasury establishes the rule it will follow; and it is my
United States to give credit in compromising suits of this character—and I feel constrained to withhold my
recommend the acceptance of the offer in the terms in which it is made, for the reasons I have given in my
shall be able to find some one as faithful and attentive to take your place; and with the assurance of my
Sir: Your letter of the 6th inst. submits for my consideration the Internal Revenue case of A. W.
decided to accept in discharge of their liability in a suit pending in court, with your approval, and my
I do not wish to preclude myself by my action in these cases from reconsidering the question whether
Perry, & Co., against the United States—in which you request my opinion upon the legal questions involved
among the papers—nor, indeed, any statement from an official source of the precise questions on which my
Comptroller, or may be agreed upon, together with the questions of law arising thereon, touching which my
opinion is desired, I shall be happy to consider the questions, and give my opinion.
The questions of law upon which my opinion is requested are not stated, and there is among the papers
I, therefore, feel under the necessity of returning the papers to you, and of asking that, if my opinion
of the claim, a statement of the facts of the case, and of the questions of law upon which you wish my
Sir: I have received your telegram of the 12th inst. in reply to my letter of the 10th inst. both relating
By this grant, the United States have, in my opinion, acquired a valid title to the land described.
Overman Captain Corps of Engineers, Austin, Texas.
Sir: Your letter of the 8th instant, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between my
the representative of the claimants, to agree upon such a presentation of the facts as will raise for my
Should this anticipation be realized, it will be my pleasure as well as my duty, to give early consideration
the court to advance it for argument, & named the first Tuesday in February as the earliest day that my
previous engagments in court would permit of my attention to the argument, and as being probably as
Egins is strongly pressed upon my attention as justly requiring the interposition of the Executive clemency
I should not take the liberty of again referring the subject to you, after your reply to my former reference
examination of the affidavits presented to me, on behalf of the prisoner made a considerable impression upon my
I am unwilling however to proceed upon my own impression in this regard, notwithstanding my respect for
I regret that other occupations have prevented my giving earlier attention to the application.
rendered in relation to the title of League Island, sent to me in your letter of the 5th ultimo for my
opinion as to the reasonableness of the charge; and to say that in my opinion Fifteen hundred dollars
have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th ultimo, requesting me to give you my
While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the
which is one of fact and not of law, and therefore not within the scope of the authority and duty of my
Joseph Conrad, Captain 29th U. S.
If your Department, however, should not regard it proper to pay this judgment, I should deem it my duty