plans and
estimates for completing the new barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans.,
and for the erection of additional quarters for officers thereat, in
connection with the School of Cavalry and Infantry; also the
correspondence accompanying the same.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 15, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, the report of the
Board of Indian Commissioners for the year 1881, accompanied by a letter
from the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 9th instant, suggesting
legislation regarding reports from said board. The report is sent with
the message to the House of Representatives.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 15, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Navy,
dated the 8th instant, and accompanying copies of letters from
Rear-Admiral John Rodgers, Superintendent of the Naval Observatory,
Professor J. E. Nourse, United States Navy, and Hon. John Eaton,
Commissioner of Education, suggesting the publication of a second
edition of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Captain C. F. Hall.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 15, 1882_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from
the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a letter from the Commissioner
of Education, in which the recommendation is made that an appropriation
of $50,000 be made for the purpose of education in Alaska.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 15, 1882_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith the response of the Secretary of State to your
resolution of the 30th ultimo, calling for certain information relative
to the amount of fees collected by consuls of the United States from
American vessels.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 17, 1882_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of
the 6th instant, requesting a further compliance with its call for
correspondence respecting the war on the Pacific, I transmit herewith
a report of the Secretary of State and its accompanying papers.

CHESTER A. ARTHUR.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 17, 1882_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:

In answer to the resolution of the Senate