OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEAR 1883. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1883. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1883. DECEMBER 6, 1883.-Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith my annual report for the year 1883. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER, The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Washington, D. C., December 3, 1883. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The following report is respectfully submitted of the business of the Department of Justice during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, together with statistics of crime against the United States, and a statement of the appropriations under the control of the Attorney-General and such other matters as are embraced in sections 384 and 385 of the Revised Statutes. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. The condition of the docket of the Supreme Court of the United States at the close of the last term (October term, 1882), when compared with its condition at the close of the term next preceding, exhibits a gain of 33 cases in the number left undisposed of on the two dockets, the appellate and the original. At the close of the October term, 1881, there remained undisposed of on the appellate docket 836 causes and on the original docket 5. The number of causes docketed at the October term, 1882, were 434, of which 422 were on the appellate and 12 on the original docket, making the total number of causes on the docket at that term 1,275, of which 1,258 were on the appellate and 17 on the original docket. Of this number 874 were not disposed of, and of these 868 were on the appellate and 6 on the original docket. The number of cases actually brought under consideration was 284, of which 187 were argued orally and 97 submitted on printed arguments. Of the 390 cases on the appellate docket disposed of 185 were affirmed 60 reversed, 33 dismissed, 79 settled and dismissed by the parties, 21 docketed and dismissed under the ninth rule, 4 dismissed in vacation under the twenty-eighth rule, and in 8 cases questions certified to the court were answered. The number of causes decided at this term in which the United States were concerned was 61, of which 30 were decided in favor of and 23 |