EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 22, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior
of the 18th instant, with accompanying papers, submitting the draft of a
proposed clause for insertion in one of the pending appropriation bills,
to provide for the payment for improvements made by certain settlers on
the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in California, as appraised under
the act approved March 3, 1873.
The subject is presented for the consideration of Congress.