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Senate Sir: I learn from some gentlemen who have spoken to you upon the subject that you desire my view
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith my accounts as Disbursing Clerk for the Department of Justice
Virginia, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Rothschilds, of the 17th of May, 1867, in my
the Acting Secretary of State, which at his request was returned to him, and it is not therefore in my
subject of the case of the Rothschilds against The United States in the Court of Claims, brought to my
Will you read my letter which I enclose to you, and if you can identify the individual to whom it should
Be pleased to accept my thanks for your courtesy and attention in this matter, although I regret to say
that the statistics reached me the day after my report was submitted to Congress, and was therefore
Wells send the account to you, with my recommendation that it be paid. Very respectfully, &c A. T.
I regret that they were received too late for my Annual Report, which the law requires to be made in
Sir: On account of my absence from Washington at the time, your letter of Sept. 21st last, was not immediately
Court of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Terr Sir: I have received your letter of the 10th ultimo, asking my
Marshals—and therefore I cannot answer your letter officially, but I have no hesitation in giving you my
hundred dollars, unless it is given to them by Territorial law, or some law of Congress which has escaped my
That I may be enabled to carry out the intention of Congress properly, I desire to obtain for my information
Sir: I enclose herewith a copy of my Opinion of the 21st ultimo, as to the appellate jurisdiction of
Bolding, and asking my advice. I am not at liberty to give official advice to private parties.
My suggestion is that you apply to the District Attorney of the United States for Wyoming Territory for
It is not, in my judgment, a suitable employment for a judge to labor at a distance concerning leave
Dear sir: I find on my table the copy of your recommendations from Mr. Blaine and Mr. Bingham.
My dear Sir: I have delayed answering yours of the 4th, in the hope that I might be able to send a satisfactory
or the Head of a Department for advice in matter of law connected with their official duties, it is my
request in your letter of this date, the leave of absence granted to you for the month of June next in my
I do not see that the matters which you state authorize any official action on my part.
desire a leave of absence, but I cannot yield to them without an example that would seriously impair my
Sir: I have received your letter of the 3d instant, requesting my opinion upon the legality of the call
It is therefore not in my power to furnish you with any information upon the subject of the missing contents
My dear Sir: I have received yours of the 18th instant.
The circumstances to which you refer with regret will not affect my action in the matter.
Sir: Your letter without date received in February last, requesting my opinion upon the right of Governor
I write this to assure you that if it had been in my power to construe the law so as to give you the
But I feel that such a construction would in effect be an enactment, and therefore beyond my power.
I am not advised that any fund now under my control is applicable to this purpose. 2.
ago covered into the Treasury, under subsequent legislation—and is now, therefore, entirely beyond my
see pp. 718 734 ante legality of the claim, (as I am not, however strongly it may address itself to my
a letter from me to the District Attorney of the Western District of Arkansas, will disclose to you my
Sir: I have received your letter of the 24th ult. and the accompanying papers, submitting for my consideration
If he will show you my letter, which it will be entirely agreeable to me to permit, you will probably
that the joint resolution passed by Congress is not the resolution of which a copy was enclosed in my
If this cannot be done, I do not feel at liberty to make any other proposal than that contained in my
awaiting the action of the Executive upon his sentence,"— and your letter of May 4, 1869, again calling my
the important and difficult questions which may arise upon the case, I think it sufficient to express my
I have no right to give you my opinion upon these questions.
administration of the law, the Dept. of the Treasury establishes the rule it will follow; and it is my
United States to give credit in compromising suits of this character—and I feel constrained to withhold my
recommend the acceptance of the offer in the terms in which it is made, for the reasons I have given in my
shall be able to find some one as faithful and attentive to take your place; and with the assurance of my
Sir: Your letter of the 6th inst. submits for my consideration the Internal Revenue case of A. W.
decided to accept in discharge of their liability in a suit pending in court, with your approval, and my
I do not wish to preclude myself by my action in these cases from reconsidering the question whether
Perry, & Co., against the United States—in which you request my opinion upon the legal questions involved
among the papers—nor, indeed, any statement from an official source of the precise questions on which my
Comptroller, or may be agreed upon, together with the questions of law arising thereon, touching which my
opinion is desired, I shall be happy to consider the questions, and give my opinion.
The questions of law upon which my opinion is requested are not stated, and there is among the papers
I, therefore, feel under the necessity of returning the papers to you, and of asking that, if my opinion
of the claim, a statement of the facts of the case, and of the questions of law upon which you wish my
Sir: I have received your telegram of the 12th inst. in reply to my letter of the 10th inst. both relating
My understanding of the matter is, that the case is now before the Supreme Court, on appeal from California
The stringent Executive Order of March 31, 1871, (which is in entire concurrence with my own views of
But as at present advised, my mind is very clear that the above ground is correctly taken.
do not therefore feel at liberty to direct the proposed improvements to be made from any funds under my
If not, immediately upon my return. Very respectfully, &c. A. T.