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Dear Sir: I return with my thanks the letter of the Attorney General to the Postmaster General of the
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my accounts as Disbursing Clerk for the Department of Justice
I regret that it is not in my power to comply with your request. Very respectfully, A. J.
In my letter of May 26th I informed you that the question whether the compensation should be paid by
Dear Sir: On my return to Washington I find your letter of the 18th ultimo. I do not see how Mr.
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 5th instant, I have to say that I am daily at my office and receive
Yet such is the pressure on my time from the multitude of visitors at this season, and other causes,
My dear Sir: Mr.
that he had brought your books with him from America, a gift from you, and that they were lying in my
London chambers; Whereupon I wrote back to him, begging him to bring them himself to me at my country
I have now just called at my London lodgings, and found them on the table.
I had previously met with several of your works and read them with interest and had made up my mind that
Sir: Though your letter of the 5th instant deeply moves my sympathy, it is impossible for me to interfere
Senate Sir: In answer to your letter of the 20th inst. requesting my opinion upon the question whether
have the honor to say that the law prescribing the duties of the Attorney General, as expounded by my
It was continued, according to my recollection, at the special instance of defendant's counsel.
The subject had been brought to my notice before, by a rumor that there had been remissness on the part
I advise that Captain Craig enter into personal communication with the District Attorney on the subject
Sir: The Senate having requested the President to return to that body its resolution transmitted in my
Waterman against the United States, brought to my notice in my letter of criminal proceedings agt G.
Lyman against officers in the service of the Marshal are so indefinite that they justify no action on my
Muir, so reported to this office, and the Acting Attorney General, case of David Muir, Illinois in my
this Department, I do not feel authorized, under existing laws, to pay for it out of any funds under my
Sir: In answer to your letter of the 8th instant, I have the honor to state that my recollection of what
But my impressions were, and still are, (subject, of course, to be reversed, if they appear incorrect
My opinion against the validity of the transfer of the rights of the Oregon Center Railroad Company,
Howell, & Rice, to which you called my attention. Very respectfully, A. T.
parties supposed the arrangement to have been effected, I have not undertaken to form a judgment of my
I desire, therefore, that you will prepare for my signature the proper papers withdrawing the appeal.
building of the "Grande Admiral," from the year 1853 to 1856, I regret to inform you that it is out of my
But there may be, in this case, circumstances of justifiable exception to my general rule—and if such
appeal from the Court of Claims, No 2662 on the docket of Court of Claims, and you will prepare for my
Superintendent of Mail Depredations, Post Office Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence
Sir: The enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me this day to the Secretary of War, shows my views of
Sir: Referring to my letter to you of July 19, 1871, in reference to the Internal Revenue Compromise
Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence in relation to James Gilmore, an escaped
Cochran, of the 28th inst. with my certificate, as required by law. Very respectfully, &c. A. T.
The company is dissatisfied with my opinion, and asks a rehearing.
M. for the War Dept., and requesting my views as to the reasonableness of the same.
Sir: On the 6th day of Aug. 1871, you requested my opinion upon the question whether Henry S.
Louisiana, for falsely personating one Brown, a soldier to whom bounty money was due—and requesting my
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th inst., inviting my attention
of the assets of the bank for ratable distribution, or is the property of the Government, should, in my
Sir: Referring to my letter to you under date of the 24th ult. relative to the escape from jail of the
the subject of a supposed murder of two Indians, near Alexandria, Minnesota, and to enclose a copy of 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
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