d States:_

In further answer to the resolution of the Senate of December 12, 1881,
I herewith transmit the remainder of the correspondence touching the
desired modification of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The dispatch of the
Secretary of State of November 29, 1881, was not sent to the Senate with
the former dispatches, because at that time no advice had been received
that its contents had been communicated to the British Government.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 1, 1882_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
inclosing a letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, giving, in
compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives passed
on the 26th of January, 1882, estimates of the amounts which will be
required annually to pay pensions for the next twenty-five years, based
on the presumed conditions stated in the resolution.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 2, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, with
accompanying papers, relative to lawlessness which prevails in parts of
Arizona, and in connection therewith call attention to that portion of
my message of the 6th of December last in which suggestions were made
as to legislation which seems to be required to enable the General
Government to assist the local authorities of the Territory in restoring
and maintaining order.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 2, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior,
with a draft of a bill authorizing the disposal of dead and damaged
timber upon Indian reservations under the direction of the Interior
Department, and correspondence noted by the Secretary.

The subject is presented for the consideration of Congress.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 2, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior,
inclosing copy of a letter addressed to him by the Commissioner of the
General Land Office, asking, for reasons stated therein, that Congress
may be requested to make a special appropriation for a temporary
increase of the clerical force of the General Land Office.

A draft of a bill for that purpose is herewith incl