EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 19, 1883.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from the Secretary of War, dated the 15th instant, inclosing one from the Quartermaster-General setting forth the necessity for the construction of a fireproof building in this city for the storage of the public records.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, December 19, 1883.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs setting forth the necessity of a deficiency appropriation of $78,110 for the purchase of supplies for the balance of the present fiscal year for the Crow Indians.
CHESTER A ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, December 19, 1883.
To the Senate of the United States: