As the time draws nigh when I am to retire from the public service,
I can not refrain from expressing to the members of the National
Legislature with whom I have been brought into personal and official
intercourse my sincere appreciation of their unfailing courtesy and of
their harmonious cooperation with the Executive in so many measures
calculated to promote the best interests of the nation.
And to my fellow citizens generally I acknowledge a deep sense
of obligation for the support which they have accorded me in my
administration of the executive department of this Government.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR.
[Footnote 20: See pp. 224-225.]
[Footnote 21: See p. 204.]
[Footnote 22: See pp. 209-210.]
[Footnote 23: See pp. 205-206.]
[Footnote 24: See p. 225.]
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, December 3, 1884_.
_To the Senate of the United States:_
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to
ratification, a convention for regulating the right of succession to and
acquisition of property, etc., concluded between the United States and
Belgium on the 4th ultimo.
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