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December 20, 1842..Interest on items of account erroneously rejected.
..Compensation of the officers at West Point......
.The President and the Colonization Society.
.....Contracts for transporting the mails..

January 11, 1843..The claim of John Martin for freight.

...Coupons-how to be signed.....

.Power of President to remit forfeiture of bail bonds.
.Power of the President to prevent Indian exhibitions...
.Vessels for the revenue service....

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.Salaries of clerks of circuit and district courts.

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.Recission of patents erroneously issued and issue of new ones... 1568
.Purchase of supplies for the navy.

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.Powers of present commissioners under the Cherokee treaty.
Pay of the Chief of the Bureau of construction...

7,.......Penalties under the Tariff act of 1842, and the remission.

.Concerning the reissue of Treasury notes..

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..Power of President to appoint Justices for the District of Colum

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OPINIONS OF HON. JOHN NELSON, OF MARYLAND:

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10, 1843..Obligations of ship masters to bring home destitute seamen....
12,.......Acceptance of Post Office bonds...

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....Employment of foreign vessels in the coasting trade..

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.Appointments to office-case of Lieutenant Coxe..

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24, .Additional compensation to representatives of Francis S. Key.. 1597

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.Goods imported prior to act of 1842 entitled to drawback. ...Extradition under treaty of Washington.

7,.......Compensation of Pursers...

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.Rights of settlers in East Florida in respect to cutting live oak.. 1616

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.Right of Registers and Receivers to purchase public lands.... 1617
.Repayment of purchase money for lands..

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August 15,

...Clerks of Collectors of Customs-how paid..

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...Vessels in the coasting trade liable for Hospital money
..Compensation of Commissioners of Circuit Courts...

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.Compensation of Commander of Exploring expedition.

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....The pardon of Jenkins advised...

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28,.......Balances of Pensions due at the death of Pensioners-to whom

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August 29, ....Concerning the slave trade..

September 2,.......Claims of informers against trespassers on live-oak timber

.Extradition of fugitives from justice, under treaty of Wash-
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...Jurisdiction of United States Courts over the case of Rogers... 1640
Compensation of Collectors of Customs, Naval officers, &c.... 1642
Transfers of appropriations for the Navy Department..
.Repayment of fees at the Patent Office..

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Compensation of Commissioners of Exploration and Survey.
The Executive and the Judiciary-Abduction......

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Pensions to widows and children of officers, seamen and marines 725 ..Authority and jurisdiction of consuls..

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. Pre-emptions..

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.The Hornet, distribution on account of, to relatives. ...Trade with the Cherokees....

February 2, 1831.. Resignation of Directors of Bank of the United States.

..Storehouses for provisions for the army..

.Tenure of office of inspectors of customs, &c... ...Courts-martial....

.Marshals and the fifth census..

Exportations and drawbacks.

.Shipmasters and seamen in case of wreck.

Validity of the South Carolina port bill.
..Transfer of unexpended appropriations.
.Shipmasters and seamen...

OPINIONS OF ROGER B. TANEY, OF MARYLAND:

Appointed July 20, 1831.

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August 19,....... .Duties of accounting officers not judicial..
.Marshal's fees where debtors are discharged.

September 1,. ......Courts martial.....

28, 1831..Concerning insolvent debtors to the United States..
Diamonds of the Princess of Orange-Surrender..
.Allowance to Ministers for office rent.
Patents, Patent Office and Clerks...

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.Accounts and accounting officers.

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...Contract for return of a discharged seaman.
.Bounty lands for war 1812.

.Choctaw reserves under supplemental treaty..

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.Salaries to ministers and consuls.

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.Surveyor for the city of Washington.

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Duties of accounting officers not judicial.

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.Slaves on British vessels trading to United States.

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OPINIONS OF BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, OF NEW YORK:

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...Accounts of General Parker and accounting officers..

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.Punishment by the House of Representatives no bar to an in-
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5, ............When public officers may be treated as garnishees.
17,.......Pensions to widows..

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5,.......Distribution of prize money under act of July 14, 1832.
21,.......Claims for losses during the Indian war..

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Right of Bank of the United States to withhold dividends...

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.The United States Bank-dividends to government.
.Disbursements by quartermasters to the militia...
.Naval officers hold over till successors are qualified.
Rights of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road Company.
Priority of the United States over other creditors...
.Pensions to widows of officers of the navy.
.Pensions to widows of officers of the navy.
..Immunities of foreign consuls....

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September 21,................... Right of the Territories to become States.

.Acts of Postmasters General-how far conclusive....
.Conflicting claims to land-construction of act of February 19,
1831....

December 7,.......Payments to executors who have assigned.
18, 1836..Endorsers and holders of Treasury drafts.

January 26,

.The three Pottawatomie treaties..

.Chickasaw reservations..

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Monetary character of Virginia land scrip..
.Pensions to widows...

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.Patents for Ottawa, Chippewa, and Pottawatomie reservations..
..Location of the Choctaw reservations.

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.Power and jurisdiction of the Orphans' Court of Washington... 1024
.Pre-emptions to aliens.....

.Authority of registers and receivers.

.Pre-emptions in Missouri......

.Extra pay of acting assistant commissary and quartermaster.... 1021

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.Rations of an officer acting as head of a bureau...

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.Pensions to widows under act of 1836-when to commence..... 1067

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.Emoluments of district paymasters...

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.Explanation of deposite law of June 23, 1836.

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.Resolve of Massachusetts concerning deposites.
Execution of patents for land......

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.Payment of arrearages to contractors on Cumberland road..
.Salaries of territorial officers...

30, 1837..Investment of the Chickasaw funds

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