EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 30, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing draft of a bill to amend section 2056 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the term of office of Indian inspectors and Indian agents. The subject is commended to the consideration of Congress. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 30, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, dated the 29th of March, and the accompanying letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, submitting an estimate for the additions of $34,200 and $20,000, respectively, to the appropriations for salaries, fees, and commissions of registers and receivers, and for contingent expenses, land offices, for the next fiscal year. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 30, 1882_. _To the House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State and accompanying documents, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of February 13, 1882, touching the protection of American citizens in Persia and the establishment of diplomatic relations with that country. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 3, 1882_. _To the Senate and House of Representatives_: I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in which he sets forth the necessity which will exist for an appropriation for the payment of the commissioners to be appointed under the recent act of Congress entitled "An act to amend section 5352 of the Revised Statutes of the United States in reference to bigamy, and for other purposes," and also for the payment of the election officers to be appointed by said commissioners. In this connection I submit to Congress that, in view of the important and responsible duties devolved upon the commissioners under this act, their compensation at $3,000 per annum, as provided therein, should be increased to a sum not less than $5,000 per annum. Such increased compensation, in my judgment, would secure a higher order of ability in the persons to be selected and tend more effectually to carry out the objects of the act. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 3, 1882_. _To the House of Representatives_: I forward herewith, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 6th of February ultimo, calling for information in reference to the arrest and imprisonment in Mexico of certain American citizens, a further report from the Secretary of State and its accompanying paper, concerning the cases of Thomas Shields and Charles Weber, to which that resolution refers. CHESTER A. ARTHUR. EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 4, 1882_. _To the House of Representatives_: