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46,149 letters[500] *Mr. Cushing, Attorney General, to Mr. Inge and Mr. Ord, district attorneys. Attorney-General’s Office,December 11, 1855. Sir: I am directed by the President to address you further on the…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. Hallet, United States Attorney, Boston, and Mr. Jewett, United States Attorney, southern Ohio. Attorneys-General’s Office,December 8, 1855 [499] *Sir: I am directed by the President…
498] *Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to district attorneys. Attorney-General’s Office,December 8, 1855. [Circular addressed to district attorneys in principal ports of the United States.] Sir: Information having been received by the…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. Van Dyke, United States attorney, Philadelphia. Attorney-General’s Office,September 17, 1855. Sir: I desire to make a further suggestion in regard to the trial of parties…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. Van Dyke, United States attorney, Philadelphia. Attorney-General’s Office,September 12, 1855. Sir: In reply to your letter of the 10th instant, on the subject of the…
[223] *Mr. Gushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney. Attorney-General’s Office,September 10, 1855. Sir: I have the honor to inclose herewith a copy of a dispatch from the British minister…
[221] *Mr. Gushing to Mr. McClelland, Secretary of the Interior. Attorney-General’s Office,August 24, 1855. Sir: Your letters of the 2d and 15th instant refer to me for consideration certain accounts…
[181] *Mr. Gushing, Attorney-General, to the President. Attorneyz-General’s Office, August 9, 1855. Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the considerations of law applicable to the enlistment of troops…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney. Attorney-General’s Office, May 25, 1855. Sir: I am directed by the President to inclose to you the within communication, addressed to Captain…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney. Attorney-General’s Office, April 25, 1855. Sir: The Secretary of State having referred me to your letter of the 24th instant, with its…
Extract from the President’s message. Washington City, December 4, 1854. It has been my anxious desire to maintain friendly relations with the Mexican republic, and to cause its rights and…
By the President of the United States. a proclamation. Whereas information has been received by me that an unlawful expedition has been fitted out in the State of California, with…
Mr. Cushing, Attorney General, to Mr. Inge, district attorney, California. Attorney-General’s Office,January 16, 1854. Sir: I am directed by the President to call your attention to the several acts of…
[174] *Mr. Davis, Secretary of War, to General Wool, United States Army. War Department, Washington City, January 12, 1854. Sir: In addition to the ordinary duties of the military command…
[173] *Mr. Hammond, collector, to General Richardson, United States marshal. Custom-House, San Francisco, Collector’s Office, September 30, 1853. Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the brig Arrow,…
Mr. Hammond, collector, to Commodore Dulany. [Confidential.] Custom-House, San Francisco, Collector’s Office, September 30, 1853. Sir: I have been led to believe that an attempt will be made to invade…
Mr. Hammond, collector, to General Hitchcock. Custom-House, San Francisco, Collector’s Office, September 30, 1853. Sir: In acknowledging the receipt of your letter of September 22, 1853. I beg to inform…
Mr. Hammond, collector, to Mr. Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury. Custom-House, San Francisco, Collector’s Office, September 30, 1853. Sir: I have the honor to inclose copies of correspondence in relation…
[168] *General Hitchcock to Mr. Hammond, collector. Headquarters, Pacific Division, San Francisco, September 22, 1853. Sir: In a communication from the honorable Secretary of War, of November 19, 1851, inclosing…
Mr. Conrad, Secretary of War, to General Hitchcock. War Department, November 19, 1851. Sir: Information recently received at this Department induces an apprehension that an attempt may be made, in…