EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 2, 1886_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a communication of the 27th ultimo from the
Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft
of a bill, prepared in the Office of Indian Affairs, for the purpose of
securing to the Cherokees and others, citizens of the Cherokee Nation by
adoption and incorporation, a sum equal to their proportion of the
$300,000, proceeds of lands west of 96° in the Indian Territory,
appropriated by the act of March 3, 1883.
The matter is presented for the consideration of Congress.