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My purpose at present is, to request that you will send me, if you still have connection with this matter
S. shall be taken in the matter, without communicating with me, and receiving my instructions.
Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th inst. calling my attention to the case of Hosmer v. the
Sir: Your letter of the 26th ultimo submits for my opinion this question: May a Consul retain for his
After an examination of the statutes relating to the subject, and to which you have directed my attention
together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my
This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question
Sir: Your letter of the 15th Dec. inst. calls my attention to a certain course of proceedings of Mr.
Your letter also calls my attention to the supposed authority which you had, in consequence of or in
In a personal interview during your visit to Washington immediately after my reception of your letter
of making good the assurances of the government, in this sense and to this extent, I considered it my
I beg to enclose a copy of my letter to the Dist. Attorney, for your information.
as District Attorney during this vacancy, I have no person to address to accomplish the objects of my
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
Come directly to my house. Please answer by telegraph when I may expect you. Wm. M. Evarts.
—The object of my present communication is to advise you of the probability of such a rule requiring
that he will be in attendance at the Court in Richmond, prepared to make the arrangement suggested in my
The term commences on Monday, the 23d inst., I learn, and not the 25th as has heretofore been my impression
If you approve a reversal of the judgment, it will be my pleasure to carry that desire into effect.
entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter, which has received my
My position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity
My dear Sir: I have received two communications from you, having date, respectively, January 28th, ult
the 4th inst. that you have some purpose of publishing these letters—and you intimate a desire for my
either officially or personally, I cannot consent to be made a party, and should decline, if I had my
been both pertinent & important if I had occasion to dispose of the case of Davis as presented for my
By a perusal of my letter to Mr.
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
the Court of Claims, which has been dismissed with your consent, pursuant to the advice contained in my
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
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
the matter of the Government subsidy to the Union Pacific Railroad in a few days, as I have formed my
In the meantime, the result to which I have come enables me to say that, in my opinion, the conditions
Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.
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
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. requesting my opinion
McKeon, and return them herewith, with the endorsement of my opinion thereon.
I regret that other occupations have prevented my giving earlier attention to the application.
City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and
such directions respecting the proceedings allowed to as I may deem expedient, or to express to you my
I regard the subject of your letter, and the request for my advice and direction in the premises, as
My dear Sir: In reply to your note of 12th inst., desiring, as counsel for the Commercial Nav'g'n Co.
, an interview with me during my expected visit to New York, I beg to say that I shall be pleased to
What I may find it possible, or think it my duty to do, in regard to a personal participation in the
matter at Richmond, it is quite out of my power at present to determine; as my preparations for the ensuing
term of the Supreme Court of the United States, on special assignment, requiring my personal attendance
trial, with such counsel as shall represent the defendant there, in conformity to the suggestions of my
Clay having brought to my notice the subject of the proceedings, now or heretofore pending against you
My letters to Mr. Courtney of the 2d and 21st of November last are hereto annexed, marked A and B .
The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood
Upon my inquiring whether he was expecting to obtain the consent of these accusers to the submission
Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or
Eckel, and until my examination of the case, and my final directions thereupon, that the indictment in
Before undertaking to comply with the requisition upon me of this Resolution, which it would be my pleasure
—It will, therefore, be entirely out of my power to furnish any part of this information concerning convictions
information, sought for the means of comparison between the convictions and pardons, & as it is wholly out of my
to the Senate to submit myself to its direction as to whether the partial information which it is in my
Gomez, omitted in my communication of the 13th inst. I have the honor to be, &c. &c. &c. Wm. M.
Schley having my entire confidence, as well as your own, I concur in your suggestion that they be employed
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
To the President: Sir: I find on file in my office certain charges against Luther C.
It is not in my power to assign you so early a day. Will write by mail. Wm. M.
Sir: Your letter of the 8th instant, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between my
But at present the case does not seem to be such as to make the occasion a proper one for my interference
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.
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
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.
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
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
enclose herewith a copy of a Report which has been made to me by the Chief Clerk of this Office, in which 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