EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 9, 1884.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from the Secretary of War of the 7th instant, inclosing a copy of one from the Quartermaster-General of the Army submitting plans and estimates for the construction of walls, etc., at the Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa., rendered necessary by the opening of Peltz street, and recommending that an appropriation be made of the amount estimated to be requisite for the work referred to.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 14, 1884.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, an estimate of appropriation in the sum of $25,000 for the settlement under existing treaties of certain freedmen and their descendants upon lands known as the Oklahoma district, within the Indian Territory.
The matter is presented for the consideration of the Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 14, 1884.