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I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to

According to the 1860 U. S.

Daniel Robbins started working as an apprentice for John McKesson and Charles Olcott, who were in wholesale

ld like to see you very much it has been a long while since I wh think Visit to Washington when you were

applicants for copies of official opinions to the Heads of the Executive Departments to whom they were

requested to supply this Office with the following State Reports, provided it can be done at rates not exceeding

that the libel was filed upon an affidavit of the Spanish Consul at Charleston, before any directions were

that the reason the Marshal was obliged to put the crew and passengers on shore, was because they were

relating to this reservation, but that there is such a suit pending in the Court of Claims in this city

Benton City, Mo.

opinions upon some of the questions—but not in such a formal and official manner that I understood they were

have only mentioned the foregoing from an uncertainty whether the President and the Secretary of War were

Boisé City, Idaho T.

Reports, and Vol. 28, Texas Reports, both of which we already have, and neither of which, I think, were

At your request, these papers were sent to the U. S.

Marshal at New York City to you, and a letter of H. W.

Esq. who was employed as special counsel in the case, and asked him his opinion, whether the charges were

Phelps on the bill that three gentlemen were employed to do this printing by Judge Person, one of the

telegraphed to him that there ought to be a Commissioner of the United States Court resident in that city

I was not aware, and the Solicitor was not aware, that there was any Commissioner in that city, and we

add that the reason for telegraphing instead of writing was, that the Solicitor understood that you were

then in Nashville, and were about to leave the city.

You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.

As you represent that your services in the case were retained by that Department, the Attorney General

Gentlemen: The books mentioned in your letter of yesterday's date as having been forwarded by express were

represented that the facts on which the application for an amendment of the agreed statement was made, were

the matter of certain suspended land entries, by Hiram Hayes, at the Bayfield, Wis. district, which were

Maynard to me enclosing these papers states that Thomas Barr was in jail in the city of Detroit, in June

his assistant to Windsor, Canada, to institute proceedings for his extradition—that two examinations were

These services were rendered under the sanction of the War Department, given in a letter trans. bill

Pratt, and which you were pleased to refer to me on the 8th inst., respecting the conveyance of certain

and deeds given therefore—and that, when the sales transpired, neither the vendor nor the purchasers were

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in regard to an opinion of the Attorney General in reference to the bounty payable to soldiers who were

made to the State Department, or the Treasury Department, by one of which the firm of Person & French were

But as the firm were employed as counsel, I should suppose that any bill for their services must be collected

Barlow, Esq. 5 Beekman street, New York City.

Wilson, though it may be in this city.

any such request should be granted by the Commissioner—although there might be cases in which, if I were

the absence of the Attorney or his Assistant, pursuant to these rules,—and perhaps, if the parties were

If the picture were here, or in any northern city, I have no doubt that I could get a copy that would

Phelps & Company were referred from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Attorney General by the late

Deer Lodge City Montana Terr. Sir: In reply to your letter of the 9th inst.

That you were an officer of the United States Government, at the time you filed the information; 2d.

the record of the Court which you handed me, in which it does not appear distinctly what the proofs were

, or what points were contested and argued at the hearing on your petition to be declared informer; and

It is true, perhaps, that the fact that you were an officer of the United States at the time you filed

Attorney in behalf of the United States presents no facts or grounds against your claim that were not

As I have already stated, my inquiries addressed to you were made at the request of the Secretary of

whom the contents of your letter would have been communicated—but at present he is absent from this city

Madison may have some responsibility for the death of Boley, but are inclined to the opinion that there were

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Attorneys in Vermont and New York were that they should cause the leaders of the Fenian attack on Canada

to be arrested, prosecuted and punished; but to allow the poor dupes whom they had swindled and were

Harrison, Esq. of Deer Lodge City, Montana Terr. of the 27th ult. enclosing his account for services

application to this Office for a copy of the opinions of her father and has been informed that we were

These papers were sent to this office by the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying his letter of the

the "Cuba," her armament, &c, to clear for New York.,—and also that you authorize the issue of an American

Whether the vessel is entitled to an American register I have no knowledge, and express no opinion.

Akerman were reasonably acc't of A. T.

Akerman were rendered while he was United States Attorney.

If they were not, he can, of course, be paid a reasonable compensation out of any appropriation made

Henry Whitall, Esq. 10 East Fifth street, New York City.

office, over and above his necessary office expenses, the necessary clerk-hire included, a sum not exceeding

remanded to the general docket for further proceedings, either at or after the hearing thereof, but two were

Clement were neither ordered nor authorized by this Department, they cannot be paid for by this Department

Consul at Antwerp, reporting that the master of the American ship "Richard Robinson" left George Edwards

McKean, Chief Justice of Utah Territory, Salt Lake City.

Hotel, New York City. Sir: In answer to your letter of the 30th ult.

Schley and yourself were employed to conduct the defence in the interest of the United States.

Schley, to whom the interests of the Government in the matter were confided by my predecessor, Mr.

to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th instant, in relation to the steamer "Quaker City

(copy enc.) case of "Quaker City." see Ins. Book B. p.170.