3d Session.

No. 44.

OFFICIAL OPINIONS

OF

THE ATTORNEYS-GENERAL

OF

THE UNITED STATES,

ADVISING THE

PRESIDENT AND HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS

IN RELATION TO THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES,

AND EXPOUNDING THE CONSTITUTION, TREATIES WITH FOREIGN
GOVERNMENTS AND WITH INDIAN TRIBES, AND
THE PUBLIC LAWS OF THE COUNTRY.

EDITED BY

EDWARD A. HIBBARD, Esq.

VOLUME XX.

[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS.]

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

VOLUME XX.

CONTAINING

THE OPINIONS OF ATTORNEYS-GENERAL

HON. WILLIAM H. H. MILLER, of Indiana,

AND

HON. RICHARD OLNEY, of Massachusetts.

ALSO CONTAINING OPINIONS BY SOLICITORS-GENERAL

HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT, of Ohio,

HON. CHARLES H. ALDRICH, of Illinois.

HON. LAWRENCE MAXWELL, JR., of Ohio,

AND

ACTING ATTORNEYS-GENERAL

HON. WILLIAM A. MAURY, of the District of Columbia. HON. EDWARD B. WHITNEY, of New York,

AND

HON. JOHN B. COTTON, of Maine.

ALSO CONTAINING A TABLE OF CITATIONS OF ACTS OF CONGRESS
AND OF THE REVISED STATUTES IN VOLUMES XVII TO XX
OF THE OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.

TABLE OF TITLES.

Abatement of rent by the Secretary of the Treasury.

Absence on pay.

Page.

634

303, 607

Appropriation for bringing home persons accused of crime..
Appropriation for public buildings..

Arrest of criminals

Artificial limbs....

259, 300, 484, 553, 566, 573, 594, 617, 653

600

54

514

83

Assignment of claim.............

Assignment of indebtedness
Attorney-General.....

578

749

50, 158, 178, 210, 220,

249, 251, 253, 258, 270, 277, 279, 288, 312, 314, 371, 383, 420, 440, 459, 465, 487, 493, 494, 500, 524, 526, 530, 536, 539, 583, 588, 590, 602, 608, 614, 618, 620, 640, 648, 649, 654, 667, 673, 697, 699, 702, 703, 711, 714, 719, 723, 728, 729, 738, 740,742

Books and records of the postal service of the Confederate gov ernment.

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