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Sirs: On account of my absence from Washington, your letter of the 6th ult, in relation to the case of

Hastings and others, and your claim for a retainer for services therein, has just been brought to my

If, upon final investigation I should arrive at a different result, my pleasure in doing so will be much

Sir: Your letter without date received in February last, requesting my opinion upon the right of Governor

My understanding of the matter is, that the case is now before the Supreme Court, on appeal from California

Brown in my letter of August 21st, as now addressed to yourself. Very respectfully, A. T.

Sir: Referring to my letter to you of July 19, 1871, in reference to the Internal Revenue Compromise

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.

But it is my rule to direct compensation for no unauthorized services.

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

Muir, so reported to this office, and the Acting Attorney General, case of David Muir, Illinois in my

charge of this Department out of which such a reward could be paid—and therefore it will not be in my

Sir: I think it my duty to transmit for your information the copy of an unofficial letter which I have

Richardson & Co. for refunding certain Internal Revenue taxes, in which you ask my opinion "as to whether

agreed statement of facts in the papers, and no statement of facts to be assumed by me on which to give my

—I will therefore thank you to so state the questions of law upon which my opinion is desired, as will

of the assets of the bank for ratable distribution, or is the property of the Government, should, in my

The subject had been brought to my notice before, by a rumor that there had been remissness on the part

instructions from this Department to the District Attorney of Dakota, I have the honor to enclose a copy of my

Department to which they are addressed, I will thank you to inform me whether you have any objection to my

Sir: The Senate having requested the President to return to that body its resolution transmitted in my

Sir: On account of my sickness and absence, your letters of September 19th and September 22d instants

to breaches of the Neutrality Laws of the United States, near Brownsville, in Texas, never came to my

Texas. for the Mexican Commission—and to say, in reply, that no answer to my communication has been received

appoint a Territorial auditor and Treasurer during the recess of the Legislature, I have to say that in my

that you desire any official action upon the subject by this Department—and, in fact, none occurs to my

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

This he declined to do, and it would hardly be becoming in me, under the circumstances, to reverse my

Dear Sir: It is not in my power to furnish you any extended report of criminal cases in the U.S. courts

Prisons on the 3d page of my annual report presented last winter, a copy of which I enclose.

According to my information the compromise proposed by you would reduce that judgment to a little below

subject of the case of the Rothschilds against The United States in the Court of Claims, brought to my

or the Head of a Department for advice in matter of law connected with their official duties, it is my

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

Bolding, and asking my advice. I am not at liberty to give official advice to private parties.

building of the "Grande Admiral," from the year 1853 to 1856, I regret to inform you that it is out of my

I do not see that the matters which you state authorize any official action on my part.

It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated

behalf of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Ionia, Mich. more than the sum indicated in my

Mississippi, requesting the employment of assistant counsel in certain cases in his District, I refer you to my

the Acting Secretary of State, which at his request was returned to him, and it is not therefore in my

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

Will you read my letter which I enclose to you, and if you can identify the individual to whom it should

The stringent Executive Order of March 31, 1871, (which is in entire concurrence with my own views of

I write now to say that my omission to answer it immediately was from no indifference to the affairs

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.

suit in Baltimore different from the first impression which a verbal statement of the matter made upon my

Wells send the account to you, with my recommendation that it be paid. Very respectfully, &c A. T.

I am sure that if no unexpected business comes to this office, and my health holds out in this hot weather

Delano has referred the matter to my "favorable consideration."

Sir: I have received your letter of the 3d instant, requesting my opinion upon the legality of the call

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

From all my information I incline to think that Mr.

I enclose the account without my certificate for the reasons that it does not show where the services