EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 19, 1883.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of War, dated the 17th instant, inclosing, with other papers on the subject, a petition of Thomas Mulvihill, of Pittsburg, Pa., praying for the repossession of certain shore lands at Pittsburg erroneously conveyed by him to the United States.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 19, 1883.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication, dated the 18th instant, from the Secretary of the Interior, with accompanying papers, in relation to the request of the Cherokee Indians in the Indian Territory for payment for lands in that Territory west of the ninety-sixth degree west longitude, the cession of which to the United States for the settlement of friendly Indians thereon is provided for in the sixteenth article of the treaty of July 19, 1866.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 19, 1883.
To the Senate and House of Representatives: