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of the State. The importance of providing for the internal improvements of our State will undoubtedly suggest itself to your consideration. The immense benefits which other States have derived from roads and canals constructed at the public expence or by private enterprise, affords encouragement to us so far as our means and situation will permit, to imitate their example and by facilitating the intercourse and transportation between the interior and the Seaboard to promote the prosperity of both, raise the value of our wild lands, and rapidly advance the improvements and settlement of the remote part of the State. During the past season, the amount granted by the State and received from individuals, for the improvement of the road leading through the North of the White Hills has been, nearly all, faithfully expended by the Agents, and the distance of eighteen and a half miles from Ethan A Crawford's to Littleton Village has been made a good carriage road; and repairs have also been made in the town of Bartlett this side of the Mountains. The amount appropriated for repairing the Canada road has been expended for that purpose and the present condition of the road and the necessity of providing for future repairs will appear by the Reports of the Agent, herewith transmitted. Under the Resolve of last year, the Agents who formerly contracted to complete the road westward of the Bald Mountain have entered into a new contract for that purpose and it is expected