EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 2, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior,
inclosing copy of a letter addressed to him by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, asking, for reasons stated therein, that Congress
may be requested to make a special appropriation for a temporary
increase of the clerical force of the General Land Office.
A draft of a bill for that purpose is herewith inclosed, and the subject
is commended to the consideration of Congress.