insertion of the word "steel"
in item No. (35) 66 of the list appended to article 2 of that treaty.

It is desired that the treaty be returned to me that the amendment may
be made, after which it will be again sent to the Senate for final
action.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 6, 1883_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I retransmit to the Senate the commercial treaty recently signed in this
city by the commissioners of the United States and Mexico, as amended by
the insertion of the word "steel" in item (35) 66 of the list appended
to article 2 thereof.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 7, 1883_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a communication of the 3d instant, With accompanying
papers, from the Secretary of the Interior, being a partial report upon
the Cherokee Indian matters required under a clause in the sundry civil
appropriation act of August 7, 1882.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 8, 1883_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior
of the 7th instant, with accompanying papers, setting forth the urgent
necessity of stringent measures for the repression of the rapidly
increasing evasions and violations of the laws relating to public lands,
and of a special appropriation for the purpose both in the current and
approaching fiscal years.

The subject is presented for the consideration of Congress.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, February 9, 1883_.

_To the Senate of the United States:_

I transmit herewith to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to
ratification, a convention between the United States of America and the
French Republic, for extending the term of the French and American
claims convention, concluded at Washington on the 8th day of February,
1883.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 10, 1883_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a copy of the
report of the Board of Indian Commissioners for the year 1882. The
report accompanies the message to the House of Representatives.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 10, 1883_.

_To the House of Representatives:_

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of
Representatives of the 25th ultimo, a