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I regret that it is not in my power to comply with your request. Very respectfully, A. J.

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

have a favorable opportunity, by means of a visitor to the hospital, who is now sitting by the side of my

called upon me & given me a few trifles——— Dear friend, I wish you would say to Mrs Rice I send her my

the face of a friend,—I wish you would write me a good long letter, some of you my dear friends, as

a letter from home is very acceptable in hospital——— My diarrhea is still somewhat troublesome, yet I

please put a stamp on & write to me—Please give my love to the friends in the village & tell them I

Under these circumstances I do not think it my duty to interfere. your obde't serv't, &c. A. T.

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

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

investigation to be instituted in the Treasury Department, and if anything should be produced which changes my

Lyman against officers in the service of the Marshal are so indefinite that they justify no action on my

That I may be enabled to carry out the intention of Congress properly, I desire to obtain for my information

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

I have asked the Secretary of State whether he has any objection to my sending you a copy of the opinion

It is not, in my judgment, a suitable employment for a judge to labor at a distance concerning leave

But there may be, in this case, circumstances of justifiable exception to my general rule—and if such

the subject of a supposed murder of two Indians, near Alexandria, Minnesota, and to enclose a copy of my

all cases been obliged to decline approving said accounts; and must therefore in your case adhere to my

I must therefore decline to give you account of my official sanction. Very respectfully, A. T.

In my letter of the 29th of August last I directed you, in pursuance of a suggestion from the War Department

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

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.

While you have my warmest sympathy, I do not feel that it would be proper official action for me to arrest

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

My dear Sir: I have delayed answering yours of the 4th, in the hope that I might be able to send a satisfactory

Sir: I have received your letter of the 23d instant, asking whether my attention had been called to the

A spirited, yes, a desperate contest with bad men is, in my judgment, the most expedient course for the

In my letter of May 26th I informed you that the question whether the compensation should be paid by

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

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

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

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

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

The company is dissatisfied with my opinion, and asks a rehearing.

I advise that Captain Craig enter into personal communication with the District Attorney on the subject

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,

instant, informing me that it will not be in your power to furnish me the information requested in my

Senate Sir: I learn from some gentlemen who have spoken to you upon the subject that you desire my view

Sir: Though your letter of the 5th instant deeply moves my sympathy, it is impossible for me to interfere

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

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.

perplexity appears to have arisen from the use of the phrase "civil prosecution," which was quoted in my

do not therefore feel at liberty to direct the proposed improvements to be made from any funds under my

You misunderstand my position.

According to my information, this was not the case until the 25th of October.

books and furniture here some two weeks before, I feel at liberty to pay from the time indicated in my

Still, I am not absolutely certain that my construction is right, and you do well to make the point.

As you have referred the matter to my decision, I will make this change;—leaving the compensation for

In my classification which I advised in my letter of the 10th ultimo, it was my intention that all persons

answer to your letter of the 31st ultimo, requesting me to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior my

Sir: In order that there may be no mistakes as to my position in regard to a rehearing upon the questions

presented by the Interior Department, p. 225 for my opinion in relation to the asserted rights of the

made by that time, I cannot promise to hear it at all, in view of the engagements which press upon my

however, I should find no cause for such suspicion, the opinion already prepared may be considered as my

letter acknowledged & answered. to the property of patentees, and you add to that information that my

Sir: On my return from the south, I find your official and unofficial letters of Sept. 13, 1871, which

on the 18th of that month were answered by the Solicitor General, reserving a final answer until my

I hope I was not understood in my previous letter any suspicion that your conduct had not been dictated

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