line.

I do not hesitate to recommend that Congress make the very moderate
appropriation for surveys suggested by the conference and authorize the
appointment of commissioners and the detail of engineer officers to
direct and conduct the necessary preliminary surveys.

BENJ. HARRISON.



EXECUTIVE MANSION, _May 21, 1890_.

_To the Senate and House of Representatives_:

I transmit herewith a communication of the 20th instant from the
Secretary of the Interior and accompanying correspondence in the matter
of the request of the Seminole Nation of Indians for negotiations with
the Creek Nation of Indians for the purchase of an additional quantity
of land, being about 25,000 acres, for the use of the Seminoles. The
request is based upon the fact that former purchases do not embrace all
of the lands upon which the Seminole Indians have made improvements, and
which by the corrected survey were given to the Creeks. The money to be
paid for these lands is to be reimbursed to the Government by the
Seminoles.

BENJ. HARRISON.