_To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill to increase the salary of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and to create the office of Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The matter is commended to the attention of Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 24, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill and accompanying papers, in reference to the proposition of the Creek Nation of Indians for the cession of certain of their lands in the Indian Territory occupied by the Seminole Indians. The subject is commended to the consideration of Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 24, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives:_ I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill authorizing the sale of certain pine timber cut upon the Menomonee Reservation in Wisconsin, together with the accompanying papers noted in said communication. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of War, dated the 23d instant, and accompanying copies of letters from the Adjutant-General, Inspector-General, and Quartermaster-General of the Army, recommending the amendment of section 3 of the act approved May 15, 1872, entitled "An act to establish the pay of the enlisted men of the Army," so as to require a settlement of the clothing accounts of enlisted men at every bimonthly muster for pay. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of War, with plan and estimate of the cost of constructing five dining-rooms and kitchens at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill for the per capita distribution of the sum of $5,000 to the band of Western Miami Indians at the Quapaw Agency, Ind. T., with accompanying papers noted in said communication. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of War, reporting a list of reservations which are no longer needed for military purposes and setting forth the necessity for such legislation as will provide for their disposal. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 26, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: