It is desired that the treaty be returned to me that the amendment may
be made, after which it will be again sent to the Senate for final
action.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 6, 1883_.
_To the Senate of the United States:_
I retransmit to the Senate the commercial treaty recently signed in this
city by the commissioners of the United States and Mexico, as amended by
the insertion of the word "steel" in item (35) 66 of the list appended
to article 2 thereof.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 7, 1883_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication of the 3d instant, With accompanying
papers, from the Secretary of the Interior, being a partial report upon
the Cherokee Indian matters required under a clause in the sundry civil
appropriation act of August 7, 1882.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 8, 1883_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior
of the 7th instant, with accompanying papers, setting forth the urgent
necessity of stringent measures for the repression of the rapidly
increasing evasions and violations of the laws relating to public lands,
and of a special appropriation for the purpose both in the current and
approaching fiscal years.
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