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Brown in my letter of August 21st, as now addressed to yourself. Very respectfully, A. T.
behalf of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Ionia, Mich. more than the sum indicated in my
Dear Sir: On my return to Washington I find your letter of the 18th ultimo. I do not see how Mr.
charge of this Department out of which such a reward could be paid—and therefore it will not be in my
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting my views as to the expediency of complying
Bolding, and asking my advice. I am not at liberty to give official advice to private parties.
My dear Sir: I have delayed answering yours of the 4th, in the hope that I might be able to send a satisfactory
I do not see that the matters which you state authorize any official action on my part.
Sir: I have received your letter of the 3d instant, requesting my opinion upon the legality of the call
do not therefore feel at liberty to direct the proposed improvements to be made from any funds under my
the Current, I do not feel at liberty to give further directions in this matter than are contained in my
In my letter of the 29th of August last I directed you, in pursuance of a suggestion from the War Department
It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated
this Department, I do not feel authorized, under existing laws, to pay for it out of any funds under my
D. of Brighton, Illinois, an old friend of mine, has written to ask my aid in the following matter: Mrs
United States in the injunction suit to restrain the work at Hallett's Point, New York; and asking for my
Prisons on the 3d page of my annual report presented last winter, a copy of which I enclose.
Sir: On account of my absence from Washington at the time, your letter of Sept. 21st last, was not immediately
It is not, in my judgment, a suitable employment for a judge to labor at a distance concerning leave
in the Supreme Court, on error to the Circuit Court for your District, for the purpose of preparing my
services rendered and expenses incurred by you while in the performance of official business under my
answer to your letter of the 31st ultimo, requesting me to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior my
I hope I was not understood in my previous letter any suspicion that your conduct had not been dictated
In my letter of May 26th I informed you that the question whether the compensation should be paid by
M. for the War Dept., and requesting my views as to the reasonableness of the same.
of the assets of the bank for ratable distribution, or is the property of the Government, should, in my
I can now only say, generally, that if, under the law, it will be in my power to give adequate compensation
I enclose the account without my certificate for the reasons that it does not show where the services
Dear Sir: It is not in my power to furnish you any extended report of criminal cases in the U.S. courts
It was continued, according to my recollection, at the special instance of defendant's counsel.
But there may be, in this case, circumstances of justifiable exception to my general rule—and if such
Virginia, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Rothschilds, of the 17th of May, 1867, in my
subject of the case of the Rothschilds against The United States in the Court of Claims, brought to my
My dear Sir: I have received yours of the 18th instant.
But as at present advised, my mind is very clear that the above ground is correctly taken.
As you have referred the matter to my decision, I will make this change;—leaving the compensation for
Sir: I have received your letter of the 23d instant, asking whether my attention had been called to the
Lyman against officers in the service of the Marshal are so indefinite that they justify no action on my
Sir: On the 6th day of Aug. 1871, you requested my opinion upon the question whether Henry S.
no new facts having been presented to me, I do not feel at liberty to interfere with the action of my
Wells send the account to you, with my recommendation that it be paid. Very respectfully, &c A. T.
perplexity appears to have arisen from the use of the phrase "civil prosecution," which was quoted in my
I write now to say that my omission to answer it immediately was from no indifference to the affairs
Louisiana, for falsely personating one Brown, a soldier to whom bounty money was due—and requesting my
of the 5th instant, referred to the Attorney General by your endorsement of this date, has received my
regulations issued by this Department to Marshals, relative to executing their bonds, you enquire whether in my
But it is my rule to direct compensation for no unauthorized services.
done by him as military duty while provost marshal for the Fourth District of Wisconsin, and inviting my
who had been appointed by the Department of the Interior as agent of certain Indians, and requesting my
or the Head of a Department for advice in matter of law connected with their official duties, it is my