Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

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

United States Attorney’s Office,
New Orleans, Louisiana, December 27, 1858.

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.