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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

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