The matter is commended to the attention of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 24, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
with draft of a bill for the per capita distribution of the sum of
$2,000 to the band of Eastern Shawnee Indians at Quapaw Agency, Ind.
T., with accompanying papers noted in said communication.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 24, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
with draft of a bill to increase the salary of the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs and to create the office of Assistant Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.
The matter is commended to the attention of Congress.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 24, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
with draft of a bill and accompanying papers, in reference to the
proposition of the Creek Nation of Indians for the cession of certain of
their lands in the Indian Territory occupied by the Seminole Indians.
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