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the representative of the claimants, to agree upon such a presentation of the facts as will raise for my
Should this anticipation be realized, it will be my pleasure as well as my duty, to give early consideration
the court to advance it for argument, & named the first Tuesday in February as the earliest day that my
previous engagments in court would permit of my attention to the argument, and as being probably as
Egins is strongly pressed upon my attention as justly requiring the interposition of the Executive clemency
I should not take the liberty of again referring the subject to you, after your reply to my former reference
examination of the affidavits presented to me, on behalf of the prisoner made a considerable impression upon my
I am unwilling however to proceed upon my own impression in this regard, notwithstanding my respect for
I regret that other occupations have prevented my giving earlier attention to the application.
rendered in relation to the title of League Island, sent to me in your letter of the 5th ultimo for my
opinion as to the reasonableness of the charge; and to say that in my opinion Fifteen hundred dollars
have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th ultimo, requesting me to give you my
While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the
which is one of fact and not of law, and therefore not within the scope of the authority and duty of my
Joseph Conrad, Captain 29th U. S.
If your Department, however, should not regard it proper to pay this judgment, I should deem it my duty
City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and
My dear Sir: I have received two communications from you, having date, respectively, January 28th, ult
the 4th inst. that you have some purpose of publishing these letters—and you intimate a desire for my
either officially or personally, I cannot consent to be made a party, and should decline, if I had my
It is not in my power to assign you so early a day. Will write by mail. Wm. M.
together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my
This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question
the Court of Claims, which has been dismissed with your consent, pursuant to the advice contained in my
Gomez, omitted in my communication of the 13th inst. I have the honor to be, &c. &c. &c. Wm. M.
Before undertaking to comply with the requisition upon me of this Resolution, which it would be my pleasure
—It will, therefore, be entirely out of my power to furnish any part of this information concerning convictions
information, sought for the means of comparison between the convictions and pardons, & as it is wholly out of my
to the Senate to submit myself to its direction as to whether the partial information which it is in my
My letters to Mr. Courtney of the 2d and 21st of November last are hereto annexed, marked A and B .
The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood
Upon my inquiring whether he was expecting to obtain the consent of these accusers to the submission
Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or
Eckel, and until my examination of the case, and my final directions thereupon, that the indictment in
Schley having my entire confidence, as well as your own, I concur in your suggestion that they be employed
such directions respecting the proceedings allowed to as I may deem expedient, or to express to you my
I regard the subject of your letter, and the request for my advice and direction in the premises, as
entries of certain lands at East Laginaw, Mich., by Charles Rodd and Henry Peter, which has received my
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. requesting my opinion
McKeon, and return them herewith, with the endorsement of my opinion thereon.
If you approve a reversal of the judgment, it will be my pleasure to carry that desire into effect.
My Dear Walt.
This is my apology for this intrusion.
New York Nov 16 My Dear friend Walter I received your letter of the 29 th and was very glad to here hear
from you I am very Sorry to keep you waiting so long for my answer. we have just got done taking account
I am very tired when I get home at night my feet are very sore from the nails sticking up in the heels
like you I send you mine in return I have received the title of Unkle Uncle my sister Josephine has
Crum he weigh weighs ten pounds I am going to get my wages raised after the Holidays father has just
Attorney for Georgia: "I deem it my duty to report that it is currently rumored that the U. S.
I deem it my duty to report that it is currently rumored that the U. S.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of my commission as Attorney General of the United States
I herewith enclose my oath of allegiance, duly executed.
You will find that my predecessor, Mr.
This subject was referred to my Department by the President, was duly considered, and a Report thereon
Seward, Secretary of State, of August 14, 1868, to my predecessor, Mr.
It appears from a letter of my predecessor to the Dist.
In reply I have the honor to refer to an opinion given to the President by my predecessor in office,
I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the opinion of my predecessor, Mr.
to make any new case for the consideration of the Court, I do not see, as at present advised, that my
As I desire to do my duty under that resolution, I wish to be informed by any person who has knowledge
Attorney for the District of Georgia, by my predecessor, directing him to dismiss all suits and proceedings
undetermined, under the Acts mentioned, I see no reason to doubt that they are embraced by the instructions of my
The only object which my predecessor could have had in referring the subject to the U. S.
Attorney, and to give that officer the instructions contained in my letter to him.
As an original question, I should have had grave doubts upon it; but I did not think it my duty to suggest
Sir: Your letter of the 8th instant, requesting to be furnished with a copy of correspondence between my
received, is one clearly within the range of the instructions given to him, and the District Attorney; and my
Sir: I have the honor to enclose to you a copy of a letter from my assistant at the Court of Claims,
interests of the Government to incur the small expense suggested in the letter.— There is no fund under my
Sir: I am sorry to say that it hardly seems to me to belong to my official duty to attempt an answer
you find in the Territory—but fear that it is hardly practicable to remedy it by the transmission of my
Your return to Illinois for the purpose of settling your private business would meet my entire approval
continuously in them, ready to attend to whatever official duties may present themselves, and that in my
He does not answer my letter directed to him at Salem, and I do not know where he is to be found.
I shall send all the evidence in my power, if any more is found.
It was the purpose of my letter of the 13th inst. to inform you politely of a result, and I did not then
The questions you ask are not such as, in my opinion, it is his duty to answer.
I have not before me a copy of the concurrent resolution—but, if I had, it would not be my official duty
Sir: I respectfully call your attention to my letter to you of the 6th inst. relating to the suit of
Overman Captain Corps of Engineers, Austin, Texas.
While this force may be sufficient for the purely clerical needs of the office it is not, in my opinion
result, in a great degree, of inquiries orally made by me of persons from the Territory who came to my