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As he invites my criticism I transmit herewith his draft of the joint resolution, with an interlineation

Sir: A note from the clerk of your Committee, dated yesterday, requests my opinion as to the necessity

Dear Sir: Your letter of the 16th ult. came in my absence.

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

Please forward the list called for in my letter of the 14th instant. A. T.

My suggestion is that you apply to the District Attorney of the United States for Wyoming Territory for

careful perusal, it fails to satisfy me that I should reverse the determination I expressed to you in my

My dear Sir: I have received yours of the 18th instant.

Sir: Your letter of the 16th ultimo asks for my opinion whether the keeper of the harbor Light House

desire a leave of absence, but I cannot yield to them without an example that would seriously impair my

Have you found an Act of the Legislature ceding jurisdiction, as I suggested in my letter of April 5th

It is therefore not in my power to furnish you with any information upon the subject of the missing contents

Cochran, of the 28th inst. with my certificate, as required by law. Very respectfully, &c. A. T.

Superintendent of Mail Depredations, Post Office Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence

Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence in relation to James Gilmore, an escaped

Sir: Referring to my letter to you under date of the 24th ult. relative to the escape from jail of the

I enclose the account without my certificate for the reasons that it does not show where the services

From all my information I incline to think that Mr.

Of course whatever may be my interest as a citizen in the politics of the South generally, and of Alabama

I am unable at this distance, and with my limited information to determine whether the transactions in

Sir: I have received your letter of the 3d instant, requesting my opinion upon the legality of the call

Delano has referred the matter to my "favorable consideration."

I am sure that if no unexpected business comes to this office, and my health holds out in this hot weather

Wells send the account to you, with my recommendation that it be paid. Very respectfully, &c A. T.

suit in Baltimore different from the first impression which a verbal statement of the matter made upon my

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 write now to say that my omission to answer it immediately was from no indifference to the affairs

The stringent Executive Order of March 31, 1871, (which is in entire concurrence with my own views of

Will you read my letter which I enclose to you, and if you can identify the individual to whom it should

Sir: According to your request, I send to you my reply to the application trans letter of Judge Bowers

the Acting Secretary of State, which at his request was returned to him, and it is not therefore in my

Mississippi, requesting the employment of assistant counsel in certain cases in his District, I refer you to my

behalf of the Register and Receiver of the Land Office at Ionia, Mich. more than the sum indicated in my

It was my supposition from your previous communication that the offences which you alleged were perpetuated

I do not see that the matters which you state authorize any official action on my part.

building of the "Grande Admiral," from the year 1853 to 1856, I regret to inform you that it is out of my

Bolding, and asking my advice. I am not at liberty to give official advice to private parties.

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

or the Head of a Department for advice in matter of law connected with their official duties, it is my

subject of the case of the Rothschilds against The United States in the Court of Claims, brought to my

According to my information the compromise proposed by you would reduce that judgment to a little below

Prisons on the 3d page of my annual report presented last winter, a copy of which I enclose.

Dear Sir: It is not in my power to furnish you any extended report of criminal cases in the U.S. courts

This he declined to do, and it would hardly be becoming in me, under the circumstances, to reverse my

Patton whom you were authorized in my letter of the 1st instant to prosecute in the State Courts of New

But if authentically advised that no real cause for prosecution exists, the direction in my letter of

that you desire any official action upon the subject by this Department—and, in fact, none occurs to my

appoint a Territorial auditor and Treasurer during the recess of the Legislature, I have to say that in my

Texas. for the Mexican Commission—and to say, in reply, that no answer to my communication has been received

Sir: On account of my sickness and absence, your letters of September 19th and September 22d instants

to breaches of the Neutrality Laws of the United States, near Brownsville, in Texas, never came to my

Sir: The Senate having requested the President to return to that body its resolution transmitted in my

Department to which they are addressed, I will thank you to inform me whether you have any objection to my