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Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,

Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."

: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting, for my

Tennessee—and that the act on account of which he is prosecuted was done during the rebellion, while he was Captain

Talbot's brief, I preferred to make one of my own, and have done so, and will send it to the branch printing

Sir: Referring to my letter addressed to you under date of the 3d instant, relative to the case of Charles

My dispatch of yesterday was written in the Supreme Court Room while I was engaged in the argument of

acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of your letter of the 25th inst. and its enclosures, in response to my

D. of Brighton, Illinois, an old friend of mine, has written to ask my aid in the following matter: Mrs

charge of this Department out of which such a reward could be paid—and therefore it will not be in my

I can now only say, generally, that if, under the law, it will be in my power to give adequate compensation

Sir: I think it my duty to transmit for your information the copy of an unofficial letter which I have

Dear Sir: Your letter of the 16th ult. came in my absence.

Sir: In answer to your letter of the 6th instant, requesting my views as to the expediency of complying

The suits were first brought to my notice Standish & Ballard's bill, Mich. see p. 288 ante 479 by a letter

United States in the injunction suit to restrain the work at Hallett's Point, New York; and asking for my

Dear Sir: I return with my thanks the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the

But it is just to him to declare that, according to all my information, he is a zealous and faithful

I have directed that he apply for information to Captain Loyd Wheaton, of the 20th Manitoba expedition

Remak seems to have been made in good faith by Captain Hagen, and that the services were cannot pay S

to file a map of their route, etc., has been withdrawn, and that therefore there is no necessity for my

This Opinion was then considered by me as my final action upon the subject.

argument upon such facts, not intending to reëxamine the questions unless such facts should be brought to my

Co. not at any request, but, as I suppose, for my convenience in the event that cause for revising the

My consent to hear further argument on new facts was not intended as a recall of the Opinion, or as a

My original direction, following the request in the letter received from your Department was confined

regulations issued by this Department to Marshals, relative to executing their bonds, you enquire whether in my

instructions from this Department to the District Attorney of Dakota, I have the honor to enclose a copy of my

Prisons on the 3d page of my annual report presented last winter, a copy of which I enclose.

I enclose the account without my certificate for the reasons that it does not show where the services

But it is my rule to direct compensation for no unauthorized services.

Sir: Your letter of the 12th instant enclosing a communication from Captain Gillespie, Engineer of the

Dear Sir: It is not in my power to furnish you any extended report of criminal cases in the U.S. courts

I should be glad to comply with his request for a detective, but the fund at my command for detective

done by him as military duty while provost marshal for the Fourth District of Wisconsin, and inviting my

And I beg you in that case, as a precaution against any detective in Fla. slip in my memory, to remind

As he invites my criticism I transmit herewith his draft of the joint resolution, with an interlineation

Texas. for the Mexican Commission—and to say, in reply, that no answer to my communication has been received

I am resolved to do all in my power to make these prosecutions energetic and successful.

addressed to him under the impression that he is now acting as Attorney General—which is not the fact, as my

Wesson has been brought to my attention by several written and verbal communications.

10th proximo, I request that you will submit to me as soon as possible your opinion on the matter for my

who had been appointed by the Department of the Interior as agent of certain Indians, and requesting my

Since my dispatch of last night, I have seen the President, who directs me to say to you that your immediate

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

Sir: I hereby return, with my approval of the adjudication of the Commissioner of the General Land Office

In my opinion, the appointment of such an officer is desirable for many considerations.

Since my connection with the Department of Justice, I have had occasion to observe that a large proportion

in the views expressed by you to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and have the honor to add my

Sir: Upon my return, after an absence of several weeks, I find your letter of the 14th ultimo.

Attorneys during your Congressional term; and for that reason, and no other, I raised the question in my

Sir: A note from the clerk of your Committee, dated yesterday, requests my opinion as to the necessity

if the statistics of crime, &c., are forwarded by the 15th instant, they will reach me in time for my

Please accept my thanks for crime statistics S. C. your courtesy and attention in this matter.

no new facts having been presented to me, I do not feel at liberty to interfere with the action of my

Sir: On account of my absence from Washington, yours of the 27th of December has not received an earlier

In reply I have to say that I do not feel at liberty to permit the use of my official title for the purpose