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that no matter affecting the Guano Islands in the Pacific Ocean, alleged to have been discovered by Captain

I advise that Captain Craig enter into personal communication with the District Attorney on the subject

Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."

I have directed that he apply for information to Captain Loyd Wheaton, of the 20th Manitoba expedition

Sir: Your letter of the 12th instant enclosing a communication from Captain Gillespie, Engineer of the

Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,

Tennessee—and that the act on account of which he is prosecuted was done during the rebellion, while he was Captain

Remak seems to have been made in good faith by Captain Hagen, and that the services were cannot pay S

to file a map of their route, etc., has been withdrawn, and that therefore there is no necessity for my

This Opinion was then considered by me as my final action upon the subject.

argument upon such facts, not intending to reëxamine the questions unless such facts should be brought to my

Co. not at any request, but, as I suppose, for my convenience in the event that cause for revising the

My consent to hear further argument on new facts was not intended as a recall of the Opinion, or as a

Willard, would in any degree affect my official action in that matter.

Perhaps it is not possible for one in your circumstances to view such cases as they appear to one in my

so disproportioned a share of attention given to it, and which was cheerfully given, (on account of my

But this was only a passing impulse on my part, and I desire you to feel that I retain no unkindness

or the mere addition of respectable names to the list of petitioners, will not produce a change in my

Sir: In order that there may be no mistakes as to my position in regard to a rehearing upon the questions

presented by the Interior Department, p. 225 for my opinion in relation to the asserted rights of the

made by that time, I cannot promise to hear it at all, in view of the engagements which press upon my

however, I should find no cause for such suspicion, the opinion already prepared may be considered as my

I refer to this simply to show my indisposition to advise the removal of an officer upon unproved charges

The transaction which has been lately brought to my notice in the Thomas case obliged me to suggest to

I was not moved in the slightest degree by any thing in the Stokes and Beatty case, but my action was

taken from my own views of propriety, without any suggestion whatever any suggestion whatever from the

You misunderstand my position.

According to my information, this was not the case until the 25th of October.

books and furniture here some two weeks before, I feel at liberty to pay from the time indicated in my

In my opinion, the appointment of such an officer is desirable for many considerations.

Since my connection with the Department of Justice, I have had occasion to observe that a large proportion

in the views expressed by you to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and have the honor to add my

In my classification which I advised in my letter of the 10th ultimo, it was my intention that all persons

if the statistics of crime, &c., are forwarded by the 15th instant, they will reach me in time for my

Please accept my thanks for crime statistics S. C. your courtesy and attention in this matter.

Be pleased to accept my thanks for your courtesy and attention in this matter, although I regret to say

that the statistics reached me the day after my report was submitted to Congress, and was therefore

Waterman against the United States, brought to my notice in my letter of criminal proceedings agt G.

Sir: On my return from the south, I find your official and unofficial letters of Sept. 13, 1871, which

on the 18th of that month were answered by the Solicitor General, reserving a final answer until my

In my judgement, the judicial force of the United States can be advantageously increased in the South

I am not quite certain whether a recommendation on the subject would be proper in my official report,

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 8th instant, I have the honor to state that my recollection of what

But my impressions were, and still are, (subject, of course, to be reversed, if they appear incorrect

My opinion against the validity of the transfer of the rights of the Oregon Center Railroad Company,

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 5th instant, I have to say that I am daily at my office and receive

Yet such is the pressure on my time from the multitude of visitors at this season, and other causes,

Court of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Terr Sir: I have received your letter of the 10th ultimo, asking my

Marshals—and therefore I cannot answer your letter officially, but I have no hesitation in giving you my

hundred dollars, unless it is given to them by Territorial law, or some law of Congress which has escaped my

After my distinct personal announcement to you that such delinquencies must not be repeated, this conduct

to take this step until the present moment, in the hope that your course would enable me to gratify my

In my interview with a gentleman connected with the New York Times, I gave an outline of my observations

Whether his version of my conversation was accurate in all other particulars, I cannot at this moment

all cases been obliged to decline approving said accounts; and must therefore in your case adhere to my

I must therefore decline to give you account of my official sanction. Very respectfully, A. T.

Senate Sir: In answer to your letter of the 20th inst. requesting my opinion upon the question whether

have the honor to say that the law prescribing the duties of the Attorney General, as expounded by my

ago covered into the Treasury, under subsequent legislation—and is now, therefore, entirely beyond my

see pp. 718 734 ante legality of the claim, (as I am not, however strongly it may address itself to my

addressed to him under the impression that he is now acting as Attorney General—which is not the fact, as my

Wesson has been brought to my attention by several written and verbal communications.

Patton whom you were authorized in my letter of the 1st instant to prosecute in the State Courts of New

But if authentically advised that no real cause for prosecution exists, the direction in my letter of

My letter of the 28th ultimo, addressed to you at Knoxville, in the case of Mr.

repeat that you seem to understand your Commission as requiring a much larger expenditure than was in my

I write this to assure you that if it had been in my power to construe the law so as to give you the

But I feel that such a construction would in effect be an enactment, and therefore beyond my power.

Although you were informed in my letter of the 23rd of November last that I did not intend to authorize

you to subject the Government to expense in the inquiry directed in my letter of August 30th last, I

Of course whatever may be my interest as a citizen in the politics of the South generally, and of Alabama

I am unable at this distance, and with my limited information to determine whether the transactions in

The furnishing of professional defence went to the very verge of what I understand to be my authority

To go further, and pay costs out of any funds under my control, seems to me unauthorized.

Please forward the list called for in my letter of the 14th instant. A. T.

Sir: According to your request, I send to you my reply to the application trans letter of Judge Bowers

Since my dispatch of last night, I have seen the President, who directs me to say to you that your immediate

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my accounts as Disbursing Clerk for the Department of Justice

Sir: I enclose herewith a copy of my Opinion of the 21st ultimo, as to the appellate jurisdiction of

Dear sir: I find on my table the copy of your recommendations from Mr. Blaine and Mr. Bingham.

The circumstances to which you refer with regret will not affect my action in the matter.

Sir: There is no fund under my control appropriated for paying such services as are described in your

Sir: Upon my return, after an absence of several weeks, I find your letter of the 14th ultimo.

Attorneys during your Congressional term; and for that reason, and no other, I raised the question in my

Howell, & Rice, to which you called my attention. Very respectfully, A. T.

acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your letter of the 25th inst. and its enclosures, in response to my

Dear Sir: I return with my thanks the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the

I should be glad to comply with his request for a detective, but the fund at my command for detective

Sir: Though your letter of the 5th instant deeply moves my sympathy, it is impossible for me to interfere

the subject of a supposed murder of two Indians, near Alexandria, Minnesota, and to enclose a copy of my