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Annual Report of your Department on the state of the finances for 1870, for which be pleased to accept my
Sir: The Secretary of War has called my attention to certain suits pending in the Circuit Courts of the
Her appeal, by the absence of exaggerations and other commendatory circumstances, has deeply moved my
You will carry with you my best wishes for your success in life, and my thanks for the efficiency with
Mississippi, requesting the employment of assistant counsel in certain cases in his District, I refer you to my
According to my information the compromise proposed by you would reduce that judgment to a little below
This he declined to do, and it would hardly be becoming in me, under the circumstances, to reverse my
that you desire any official action upon the subject by this Department—and, in fact, none occurs to my
appoint a Territorial auditor and Treasurer during the recess of the Legislature, I have to say that 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
Department to which they are addressed, I will thank you to inform me whether you have any objection to my
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
If, upon final investigation I should arrive at a different result, my pleasure in doing so will be much
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
I have to inform you that the clerkships under my control have either been filled or promised.
There is an impression upon my mind that it was decided at the Rolls that the United States has legal
capacity to take as a Legatee—but I am unable to verify the accuracy of my recollection by a reference
letter acknowledged & answered. to the property of patentees, and you add to that information that my
instant, informing me that it will not be in your power to furnish me the information requested in my
You desire such instructions in the premises as in my judgment shall best comport with the interests
Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.
I have asked the Secretary of State whether he has any objection to my sending you a copy of the opinion
Under these circumstances I do not think it my duty to interfere. your obde't serv't, &c. A. T.
first published in the New York publication Truth on 19 March 1891 and was later reprinted in Good-Bye My