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by one of the Auditors of the Treasury, and being now under the consideration of a Committee, there is reason to expect an early report, and that it will be definitely acted upon before the close of the present session.

In compliance with a Resolve passed by the Legislature of Massachusetts in June last, requesting that a meeting of the Commissioners appointed under the act relating to the separation of Maine, should be holden to consider the expediency of further surveys and divisions of the lands remaining undivided, the said commissioners met in July and having ordered surveys and adopted such measures as would enable them to make a further division, adjourned to meet in December last, to receive the returns and plans of the Surveyors and to proceed in the execution of their trust, as the interests of both States might require. At the meeting in December, the survey of two ranges of townships, lying west of the line forming our Eastern boundary and extending nearly to the St John’s river were accepted, and a division made of the land remaining undivided in those ranges. Surveys were also accepted, and a division made of five ranges of townships bounded north on a line run due west from the monument at the source of the St Croix, and extending south, to the fourth range of townships north of Bingham’s purchase, east of Penobscot river; embracing all the undivided land north of said range. A division was also made of a tract of undivided land near the Schoodic lake. By these divisions, upwards of four hundred & twenty thousand acres are assigned to Maine. Copies of the reports of the Commissioners and of the maps of the Surveyors will be laid before you as soon as they can be prepared. Athough [Although] it may not be considered expedient to make any considerable appropriations from the public treasury at this time for the purpose of internal improvement, yet there are some objects of that nature which would be of so great general advantage, and might be accomplished with so little expense, that they seem now to claim our attention. The road leading from the Penobscot river to Houlton plantation, passes through, and to, a tract of county equal in fertility,