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corroborated by copies of the whole proceedings and informed that under these circumstances the Constitution and laws of this State did not authorize the Executive to interfere; at the same time he was assured, that it is the wish of this Government, by evry [every] proper measure, to cultivate good neighborhood with the adjourning Provincial Governments, and that no acts of our citizens encroaching upon their rights had been or would be sanctioned. The local situation of this State affords great facilities of escape to offenders against our laws, and the restraint which a belief in the certainty of punishment has a tendency to produce is no doubt frequently lessened from a consideration of the ease with which arrest may be avoided by flights to a foreign jurisdiction. I know of no way in which this inconvenience could be so effectually obviated as by a mutual agreement between the Governments of adjoining territory, providing under suitable regulations for the reciprocal apprehensions of fugitives from justice and for their return to the Government whose laws they have violated. Such an arrangement, if executed in good faith, might have a tendency in some measure to check the commission of crimes of the more aggrivated [aggravated] character. The State Prison having been completed in the early part of the year, it was deemed inexpedient to remove the prisoners from the County gaols until it had become so thoroughly dried and seasoned as to cause no apprehension of injury to the health of those who might be confined therein. In the month of June information was given me by the Warden and Inspectors, that