Number of Pages
3
Date
April 27, 1857

United States Attorney General Jeremiah Sullivan Black provides legal advice to President James Buchanan on whether the Chief Executive can remit part of the sentence of a convict. "I have examined and found that the universal practice of all your predecessors sanctioned by the courts has been to relieve from such portion of the sentence as the President sees proper without affecting others parts," as Black explains. Transcript included.

Time Period
Location
MC 1998.10, B1, F2
Origin
Gift of Boyd Lee Spahr
Letter from Jeremiah Black to James Buchanan