EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 14, 1884_.
_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
submitting, with accompanying papers, an estimate of appropriation in
the sum of $25,000 for the settlement under existing treaties of certain
freedmen and their descendants upon lands known as the Oklahoma
district, within the Indian Territory.
The matter is presented for the consideration of the Congress.