To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from the Secretary of War, dated March 31, 1882, and accompanying report from the Chief of Engineers, with its inclosures, relative to the construction of a bridge across the Potomac River at or near Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, under the provisions of the act approved February 23, 1881, in which he requests that an additional appropriation of $80,000 be made to give practical effect to the act referred to in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 5, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, setting forth the necessity for an increased number of law clerks in the office of the Assistant Attorney-General in the Department of the Interior, because of the growing amount of business in that office.
The matter is commended to the attention and favorable action of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 5, 1882.
To the Senate and House of Representatives: