the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication
of the 4th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting the
agreement entered into between the Indians of the Pyramid Lake
Reservation and the commission appointed under the provisions of the
Indian appropriation act of March 3, 1891, for the cession and
relinquishment of the southern portion of their reservation in the State
of Nevada.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 11 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication
of the 4th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting the
agreement entered into between the Shoshone and Arapahoe Indians of the
Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in the State of Wyoming, and the
commission appointed under the provisions of the Indian appropriation
act of March 3, 1891, for the cession and relinquishment of a portion
of their said reservation.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _Washington, January 18, 1892_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

I transmit herewith to the Senate a report of the Secretary of State,
in answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 12th instant, making
inquiries regarding payments of the awards of the claims commission
under the convention of July 4, 1868, between the United States and
Mexico.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 19, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a letter of the Secretary of the Navy, accompanied
by the report of the commission appointed by me by virtue of a provision
in the naval appropriation act approved June 30, 1890, "to select a
suitable site, having due regard to commercial and naval interests, for
a dry dock at some point on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico or the
waters connected therewith."

The Secretary of the Navy approves the recommendations of the
commission, and they are respectfully submitted for the consideration
of the Congress.

BENJ. HARRISON.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 25, 1892_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

In my annual message delivered to Congress at the beginning of the
present session, after a brief statement of the facts then in the
possession of this Government touching the assault in the streets of
Valparaiso, Chile, upon the sailors of the United States steamship