EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 28, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, with
a copy of a letter from the Superintendent of the United States Naval
Observatory, accompanied by a draft of a bill, with estimates for an
observation of the transit of Venus on the 6th of December, 1882.
The matter is commended to the consideration of Congress.