| Calvin Townsend - 1869 - 596 páginas
...salary of $3,500 a year. § 2. The duties of his office may be classified as follows : — 1st. He shall prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned. 2d. He shall give advice and opinions on questions of law when required by the President of the United... | |
| Ninian Wirt Edwards, Ninian Edwards - 1870 - 554 páginas
...of 1789 defines the duties of the Attorney-General in the following terms : " Whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme...when required by the President of the United States or requested by the heads of any of the Departments, touching any matters that may concern their Departments."... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1870 - 788 páginas
...name of his office. His powers are only coextensive with his duty; and that is defined by law to be, " to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme...court in which the United States shall be concerned." 1 Stats, at Large, 93. It belongs to congress alone to decide in what cases theUnited States may be... | |
| Ransom Hooker Gillet - 1871 - 454 páginas
...States, who shall be sworn or affirmed to a faithful execution of his office ; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme...President of the United States, or when requested by the head of any department touching any matter that may concern that department, and shall receive such... | |
| Anson Willis - 1872 - 522 páginas
...first session ever held by Congress; in which his duties are thus defined: "Whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme...the United States; or when requested by the heads of departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments." By an act passed in 1861, he... | |
| William Wait - 1872 - 950 páginas
...this court. 1 Kent' s Com. 307. It is one of the duties of the attorney-general of the United States to prosecute and conduct all suits in the supreme...court in which the United States shall be concerned. Act of Sept., 1789. Its civil jurisdiction. A marshal is also appointed by the court, who shall take... | |
| Calvin Townsend - 1873 - 374 páginas
...year. § 2. The duties of his office may be classified under the following heads : — 1st. He shall prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court in which the United States shall be concerned. 2d. He shall give advice and opinions on questions of law when required by the President of the United... | |
| United States. Department of Justice - 1875 - 782 páginas
...office of Attorney-General, he is anthorized to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when requested by the heads of any of the Departments, touching any matters that may be before their Departments ; and it might be objected, if my opinions were given to be used to fortify... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1874 - 322 páginas
...the United States are a party, and to give his advice and opinion, when required by the President, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments,...touching any matters that may concern their departments. - 278. The Secretaries, the Postmaster- General, and Attorney-General, are appointed by the President,... | |
| Henry Flanders - 1874 - 296 páginas
...the United States are a party, and to give his advice and opinion, when required by the President, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments,...touching any matters that may concern their departments. 278. The Secretaries, the Postmaster-General, and Attorney-General, are appointed by the President,... | |
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