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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
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.
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
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.
received, is one clearly within the range of the instructions given to him, and the District Attorney; and my
As an original question, I should have had grave doubts upon it; but I did not think it my duty to suggest
Sir: Your letter of the 8th instant, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between 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
Overman Captain Corps of Engineers, Austin, Texas.
While this force may be sufficient for the purely clerical needs of the office it is not, in my opinion
In reply, I have to say that no official intelligence is in my possession, upon the subject,—and the
result, in a great degree, of inquiries orally made by me of persons from the Territory who came to my
entitled to a cancellation of the bond, nor to a discharge from the payment of the tax; and you ask my
—If, on a reëxamination of the case, you still desire my opinion, I shall be happy to give it; but as
it can easily be submitted to a court for its decision, if my opinion of it is not necessary for purposes
Justice of a Territory to leave his official post of duty to attend to them at Washington, I shall give my
It has been my intention, as you are aware, that no inconvenience or expense should be imposed upon you
Browning, my predecessor in office. That opinion was transmitted to the Hon. J. M.
Dear sir: I do not see that my being Attorney General requires or enables me to give you assistance or
In my letter to Mr.
Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control.
believe that this is a sufficient answer to what you ask in your letter, and with the assurance of my
I have given no official opinion in writing relating to the affairs of Georgia, and have not in my possession
It would give me great pleasure to render you any assistance in my power in regard to your discharge
of your judicial duties, but as it is not my official duty to do so, and as I am doubtful of its propriety
You ask my opinion upon the correctness of these charges. I referred the bill to Benj.
The question you ask me whether further detention of the witnesses is, in my judgment, necessary, I will
I should be glad to give the Committee any aid in my power, if I had any knowledge or opinion upon the
Tenn. dated the 8th inst. in relation to his claim for bounty, with your endorsement thereon, asking my
I hope, therefore, that you will excuse me from undertaking a service beyond my official duty.
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
On that day, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue came into my office and said to me that the Supervisor
—There is in my Department no list of U. S.
With the facts you state in your letter, I understand very well what impression my telegram made upon
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy
In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.
opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my
I must beg to observe upon this,— supposing of course, it is my Department to which you refer—nothing
It is my rule to give notice to the officer concerned of any charges affecting his reputation as a man
more safely drawn the conclusion, when you learn that charges have been filed, that they did not, in my
Commissioner in Michigan, which you referred to me, and which bears the endorsement of my clerk.
My department has no control or supervision of the Commissioners, who are officers appointed by the Courts