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answer and it is in
consequence
of the refusal of Government to
entertain his claim that he
Now
4.
appeals to you.
The report of the Acting Attorney-General which I transmit will, I think,
convince you Memorialist has no claim whatever. If he had any claim, I submit that he should have taken legal proceedings to assert it. As
he has not chosen to avail
himself
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himself of the legal remedy
has for obtaining the redress,
he
which he considers he is entitled to, I submit that, independent of the reasons assigned by the Acting Attorney General, his request should not be entertained. Had he entered a
5.
suit against Government in
the Supreme Court, any
oral or documentary
evidence
that was
forthcoming
on either side
could have been examined
and duly weighed,
as well as