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Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Robert C. Schenck, 9 June 1870

  • Date: June 9, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to J. D. Cox, 8 June 1870

  • Date: June 8, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Matthew F. Pleasants to James Brooks, 17 June 1870

  • Date: June 17, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

W. A. Field to J. W. Douglass, 18 June 1870

  • Date: June 18, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

W. A. Field to George S. Boutwell, 18 June 1870

  • Date: June 18, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

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.

W. A. Field to J. J. Martin, 20 June 1870

  • Date: June 20, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Matthew F. Pleasants to Henry Whitall, 25 June 1870

  • Date: June 25, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

W. A. Field to Cornelius Cole, 28 June 1870

  • Date: June 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): W. A. Field | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Schuyler Colfax, 2 July 1870

  • Date: July 2, 1870
  • Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Matthew F. Pleasants to John W. McGill, 21 July 1870

  • Date: July 21, 1870
  • Creator(s): Matthew F. Pleasants | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to James B. McKean, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to A. B. Cornell, 19 October 1870

  • Date: October 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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

Amos T. Akerman to Caleb Cushing, 10 November 1870

  • Date: November 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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.

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 15 November 1870

  • Date: November 15, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

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.

Amos T. Akerman to L. E. Carter, 19 November 1870

  • Date: November 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

If they were in violation of any law of the United States, the U. S.

Amos T. Akerman to John Smith, 19 November 1870

  • Date: November 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

If you were to send the money which these people ask, the probability is that you would receive by express

Such has been the experience of some individuals who were so unwise as to test the matter.

Amos T. Akerman to E. Harmon, 19 November 1870

  • Date: November 19, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Your letter informed me that the prospects of a certain Senator, as a public man, were blasted by a proposition

Amos T. Akerman to George F. Edmunds, 22 November 1870

  • Date: November 22, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

—Your clients were purchasers at the Marshal's sale.

pursuance of estimates for the general Judicial expenses of the Government; and such payments as these were

Hence I am obliged to exercise the greatest circumspection in expenditure, in order to avoid exceeding

Amos T. Akerman to P. H. Jones, 24 November 1870

  • Date: November 24, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Jones, Postmaster, New York City. Sir: Mrs. Clara L.

Amos T. Akerman to Hamilton Fish, 28 November 1870

  • Date: November 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

The proper papers were prepared, and Davis was arrested.

City) On the 27th day of February, 1869, Attorney General Evarts addressed a letter of instructions to

On the 18th of May, 1869, Davis was arrested in the City of New York, upon a bench warrant from the United

Amos T. Akerman to Edwards Pierrepont, 29 November 1870

  • Date: November 29, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Edwards Pierrepont, No. 16 Wall street, New York City.

Amos T. Akerman to Stanley Mathews, 28 November 1870

  • Date: November 28, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Perry, Esq. were retained by the War Department to conduct these suits, on the part of the United States

Amos T. Akerman to T. H. Duval, 5 December 1870

  • Date: December 5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

It is very unfortunate that the funds were not at hand for defraying the expenses of the term at Tyler

did not take his office in time to make a requisition for, and receive, the funds—and therefore none were

Amos T. Akerman to W. M. Hinman, 5 December 1870

  • Date: December 5, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Hinman, Atlantic City Wyoming Terr.

Amos T. Akerman to J. W. Douglass, 6 December 1870

  • Date: December 6, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Moreover the estimates upon which the appropriations for the Department for the current year were made

Amos T. Akerman to B. F. Potts, 10 December 1870

  • Date: December 10, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Potts, Governor, &c, Virginia City, Montana T.

Amos T. Akerman to James B. McKean, 13 December 1870

  • Date: December 13, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

McKean, Chief Justice, &c, Salt Lake City, Utah Terr.

Amos T. Akerman to Benjamin HelmWisdom, 12 December 1870

  • Date: December 12, 1870
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Garden City Planing Mill Co. Chicago, Ill.

If it were an illegal exaction, as you suppose, your remedy is to sue him for the amount.

Benjamin Helm Bristow to George S. Boutwell, 29 December 1870

  • Date: December 29, 1870
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

instant, enclosing sundry papers relative to the seizure by certain parties of a piece of land in Denver City

S. to certain land in Denver City The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes

Benjamin Helm Bristow to B. F. Potts, 3 January 1871

  • Date: January 3, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

Potts, Governor of Montana, Virginia City.

Benjamin Helm Bristow to William W. Belknap, 4 January 1871

  • Date: January 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Benjamin Helm Bristow | Walt Whitman
Text:

The papers in the case were transmitted by you to J. C. Morgan's case, Tenn. see Ins.

Amos T. Akerman to Samuel Hepburn, Jr., 13 January 1871

  • Date: January 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

As your professional services were rendered at the request of this Department, you will be paid the compensation

Amos T. Akerman to W. C. A. Thielepape, 17 January 1871

  • Date: January 17, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Thielepape, Mayor of the City of San Antonio, Texas.

your communication of the 20th of December, ultimo, containing a copy of a resolution adopted by the City

If the Courts of The United States should be removed to your city, and this Department should have any

Amos T. Akerman to J. W. Patterson, 25 January 1871

  • Date: January 25, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Government, for alleged violation of the Neutrality Laws, any communications relative to the vessel were

received from the Spanish Minister, or other parties, and whether, about that time, any instructions were

Amos T. Akerman to J. Hubley Ashton, 4 February 1871

  • Date: February 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

I suggest that it is possible that the papers which were in the hands of the Attorney General when he

prepared his opinion of July 8, 1860, (IX Opinions p. 455,) at the call of the President, were returned

Amos T. Akerman to Lyman Trumbull, 6 February 1871

  • Date: February 6, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

appears that no returns of the fees and emoluments of the Attorney of the United States for Louisiana were

Amos T. Akerman to Ulysses S. Grant, 4 February 1871

  • Date: February 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

The postage stamps remained in the Post office building, and were re-captured by the forces of the United

The envelopes were taken by the Confederate authorities.

to the United States, thus disclosed to them, and through them to others, the fact that such moneys were

Amos T. Akerman to Ulysses S. Grant, 4 February 1871

  • Date: February 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

specifications required, and delays in the prosecution of the work occasioned by the Government, which were

Amos T. Akerman to James G. Blaine, 8 February 1871

  • Date: February 8, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

person arrested was indicted—and if so whether he was tried—and in cases where order of noble prosequi were

entered, a statement of the grounds of the same,—and in the cases of those persons who were arrested

and not indicted, a statement of the authority by whom they were discharged."

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 4 February 1871

  • Date: February 4, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

If these officers were acting in the line of duty it is not presumable that a verdict will be rendered

His apprehensions rest in great measure upon the probable want of proof that the acts of the officer were

Amos T. Akerman to James G. Blaine, 8 February 1871

  • Date: February 8, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

The services were rendered by Mr.

of Representatives, as Woods was in custody under the authority of that House, and as the services were

Amos T. Akerman to Rufus B. Bullock, 10 February 1871

  • Date: February 10, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

I regret that they were received too late for my Annual Report, which the law requires to be made in

Amos T. Akerman to William W. Belknap, 13 February 1871

  • Date: February 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

September, 1868, a judgment by default was entered—and that, on the 24th of October, 1868, damages were

If he were now in office, I should require from him an explanation; but he went out of office in April

Amos T. Akerman to Horace Maynard, 11 February 1871

  • Date: February 11, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

the year 1870, the terms of the Third District Court at Helena, which was Judge Lymes's District, were

Amos T. Akerman to O. F. Strickland, 18 February 1871

  • Date: February 18, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Salt Lake City.

Amos T. Akerman to Joseph R. Lewis, 28 February 1871

  • Date: February 28, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Court of Idaho Territory Boisé City.

Amos T. Akerman to B. F. Potts, 9 March 1871

  • Date: March 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Potts, Virginia City, Montana Terr.

Amos T. Akerman to Aaron F. Perry, 9 March 1871

  • Date: March 9, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

in the middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee, against certain Railroad Companies, in which you were

Amos T. Akerman to Legh R. Freeman, 2 March 1871

  • Date: March 2, 1871
  • Creator(s): Amos T. Akerman | Walt Whitman
Text:

Farmer City, Illinois. Sir: I have received your letter of the 23d ultimo.

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