EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 22, 1884.
To the House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House dated January 11, 1883, a letter, dated the 21st instant, from the Secretary of War, together with a report submitted to him by the Chief of Engineers, embodying the information, so far as the same can be furnished from the records of his office, and a statement prepared in the Treasury Department, respecting the expenditures for rivers and harbors, called for by the said resolution.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, January 28, 1884.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit to Congress a communication from the Secretary of War, in relation to the necessity of an immediate appropriation of not less than $42,000 to enable the engineer in charge to make next autumn the explosion required for the removal of Flood Rock, in the East River, New York. The importance of the work is well known, and as it appears that without a speedy appropriation a delay of a year must follow, accompanied by large expenses to protect from injury the work already done, I commend the subject to the early and favorable consideration of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, January 30, 1884.
To the Senate of the United States: