EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 5, 1882_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior
of the 24th ultimo, with accompanying papers, submitting the draft of a
proposed clause for insertion in one of the pending appropriation bills,
to provide for the payment of certain legal services rendered to the
Cherokee Indians in North Carolina in 1881, amounting to $150.
The subject is presented for the consideration of Congress.