EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 10, 1883_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior
of the 3d instant, with draft of bill for the payment of certain
settlers in the State of Nevada for improvements on lands in Duck
Valley, in that State, taken for the use and occupancy of the Shoshone
Indians, with accompanying papers.
The subject is presented for the consideration of the Congress.