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Acting Assistant Secretary of State: My dear sir: I have received and read the letter of Mr.
Your letter would have been more promptly answered, but for my absence from the city.
Upon the receipt of his reply, I will give you my views concerning the expediency of complying with the
Your application for a leave of absence has been referred to me by the Secretary of the Interior for my
Sir: My clerk sent your Commission to you on yesterday, and I requested him to say to you that I would
Upon a careful consideration of this opinion, I adhere to the position expressed in my letter to you
course by which it can be set at rest, & this is, by instituting prosecution, as I have advised in my
You will make the same disposition of these arms as was indicated to you, in a former case, in my letter
Sir: My attention has been called by the Secretary of the Treasury to the probable fact of the custody
Leese's recommendations for the office of Marshal. 4th; My acceptance of Mr.
I have now to say that your resignation is accepted,—& I feel bound to add that my confidence in your
of your friend Hatcher to the notice of the President to-day, & that he gave a favorable response to my
No report has, within my knowledge, been made to you from this office, in relation to any violations
Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit my opinion as to the proper course to be taken in reference
Tapara, which you have brought to my notice since that opinion was prepared, does not seem to me to authorize
compensation allowed to counsel upon employment by this office, I feel that I am scarcely warranted in giving my
the suggestion that you reduce it to the sum I have indicated, which, being done, I will promptly add my
As a claim against the United States, it is clearly without my official province, & I must therefore
Sir: In accordance with your request, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of my letter of January
Y., sought to be acquired for Customs' purposes; and to state that, in my opinion, the proposed conveyance
Rider, and that in my opinion, no public object now exists which could be promoted by the proposed attempt
Sir: A few days since I gave to the Secretary of the Interior my opinion in favor of the payment of your
to direct you to take the same course in regard to the Fenian arms at Rouse's Point, as indicated in my
the 6th inst. relative to proceedings pending in your District "to confiscate the property of the Captain
I should be glad to know whether you are aware of any objections to my complying with the request of
Hartwell, was yesterday advanced by the Supreme Court, on my motion, and that the second Monday in January
me of the 1st November 1867,— whereupon the whole matter was treated as having been withdrawn from my
consideration, and all the papers relating to it, were, with my letter of 5th Nov. 1867, transmitted
That he acted at the instance of the United States, however, is sufficient to authorize my consent to
My dear Madam: I have received your letter of the 9th instant, and in reply beg to say that if you will
Ohio, enclosing a copy of Governor Tod's letter to you, I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of my
making Appropriations for the current and Contingent Expenses of the Indian Bureau," by which it is made my
examination and to state that what proceedings, &c. relative to said stocks and investments, are in my
On the third point of inquiry, in my opinion, the various law officers now attached to the other Departments
This preliminary action was made necessary by my imperfect knowledge of the circumstances.
I have already transmitted to you, with my communication of the 29th November, referred to above, a copy
of my letter of instruction to the District Attorney of this District, which, with the other papers
earliest convenience, to return my answers thereto in writing.
Before my appointment to my present office, I was a lawyer.
In my youth, before my first entering the public service, I had not adopted a permanent occupation. 5
I was educated by my parents, and by solitary study. 6.
The law clerk's hours are similar to my own.
that Court in favor of the State of Georgia, against yourself, General Meade, General Ruger, and Captain
Stanton that he, as well as yourself, wished me to appear in my official capacity to argue the motions
Upon the present motion, I feel no sort of embarrassment in resisting it in consequence of my known opinions
the papers presented to me by Senator Dixon, copies of which are herewith transmitted, I deemed it my
enclose herewith a copy of a Report which has been made to me by the Chief Clerk of this Office, in which my
subordinate, the chief of the secret service division—and other papers, together with a memorandum of my
in this office, is one in which the importance of the questions involved makes it proper to embody my
United States, in conformity to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act, it would be expedient, and in my
In respect to the interest of Captain Goodwin, no difficulty is perceived.
It is not perceived that Captain Goodwin is to blame for this, but it is equally difficult to see how
My object is, to ascertain whether a resort should not be had in all cases by parties interested, to
If so, information to that effect would satisfy my present inquiry.
B. " 25 seq p 155 my duty to pronounce any opinion upon the expediency of issuing a pardon upon such
I can only say that upon a careful examination of all the papers submitted for my consideration, it does
Captain W. H. Dietz, Kingston, Tenn.
But at present the case does not seem to be such as to make the occasion a proper one for my interference
Sir: I have the honor to refer you to your letter of the 25th April last, and my reply of 6th May following
suspend the case of Christian Priesendantz for a few days—but enclose for your information a copy of my
Sir: After my letter of yesterday, relative to the case of United States, vs .
The circumstances which I mentioned in my former letter on this subject, however, render it practically
Louis Packet Company, is submitted to me for my opinion on the questions of law arising in the premises
of them, and that I would with pleasure consider the questions of law in the case, should he desire my
Solicitor of the Treasury, requesting my advice upon certain questions arising upon the claim of the
My predecessors have repeatedly declined to give opinions at the instance of other officers than those
Should you desire my opinion upon the law of the case, it will afford me pleasure to consider the questions
involved, and communicate to my views in regard to them.
My position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity
To the President: Sir: I find on file in my office certain charges against Luther C.
Miller, who has been appointed as my successor, has not yet qualified, and I have been informed that