CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 21, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers, asking, for reasons stated by him, that Congress may be requested to make a special appropriation for the payment of the claim of Isaac A. Sylvester against the Navy Department.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, February 21, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 16th instant, relative to the necessity for a deficiency appropriation for the payment of salaries of clerks and laborers in the Patent Office during the present fiscal year.
The subject is commended to the consideration of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.