EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 17, 1883_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication of the 3d instant from the Secretary
of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of a bill
for the payment of the value of certain improvements made by certain
settlers on the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in the State of
California, as appraised under the act approved March 3, 1873.
The subject is presented for the consideration of the Congress.