CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 27, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 24th instant, and the accompanying letter of the Commissioner of Patents, submitting a supplemental estimate for an appropriation of $52,500 for the employment of twenty-five assistant principal examiners of patents, at an annual salary of $2,100 each.
The matter is commended to the consideration of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, March 28, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, with accompanying papers, on the subject of purchasing from the American Wood Preserving Company the machinery which was erected by that company at the navy-yard, Boston, under contract with the Navy Department, for the purpose of fully testing the company's process of preserving timber for use in the Navy.
The attention of Congress is invited to the subject.