EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 18, 1886_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a communication of 16th instant from the Secretary
of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of a
bill, prepared by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, providing for the
use of certain funds, proceeds of Indian reservations, covered into the
Treasury under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1883, for the
benefit of the Indians on whose account the same is covered in.
The subject is recommended to the favorable consideration and action of
Congress.