Letter

SEMMES, United States Attorney to J. S. Black , Attorney-General United States, December 27, 1858

[630] *Mr. Semmes, district attorney, to Mr. Black, Attorney-General.

Sir: Your telegram under date 25th instant, stating “that all proper and necessary expenses incurred in the execution of the laws will of course be allowed,” has been received.

I shall take no action involving expense unless circumstances imperatively require it, and then only after consultation with the marshal and collector.

Very respectfully,

THOS. J. SEMMES,
United States Attorney.

Hon. J. S. Black, Attorney-General United States.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.