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

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.

Sir: On my return from the south, I find your official and unofficial letters of Sept. 13, 1871, which

on the 18th of that month were answered by the Solicitor General, reserving a final answer until my

perplexity appears to have arisen from the use of the phrase "civil prosecution," which was quoted in my

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

Still, I am not absolutely certain that my construction is right, and you do well to make the point.

all cases been obliged to decline approving said accounts; and must therefore in your case adhere to my

I must therefore decline to give you account of my official sanction. Very respectfully, A. T.

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

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

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

In my classification which I advised in my letter of the 10th ultimo, it was my intention that all persons

Although you were informed in my letter of the 23rd of November last that I did not intend to authorize

you to subject the Government to expense in the inquiry directed in my letter of August 30th last, I

As you have referred the matter to my decision, I will make this change;—leaving the compensation for

In my letter of the 29th of August last I directed you, in pursuance of a suggestion from the War Department

Brown in my letter of August 21st, as now addressed to yourself. Very respectfully, A. T.

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

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

From all my information I incline to think that Mr.

After my distinct personal announcement to you that such delinquencies must not be repeated, this conduct

to take this step until the present moment, in the hope that your course would enable me to gratify my

investigation to be instituted in the Treasury Department, and if anything should be produced which changes my