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of participating in, and controlling, so important an election by their voluntary suffrages. As no choice of electors is to be made the present year, our obligations to the national government will only require the present Legislature to fill the vacancy of Senator, and provide for the election of Representatives. The constitution of this State having enjoined it upon the Legislature, under certain restrictions, to encourage, and suitably endow, from time to time, as the circumstances of the people may authorize, all academies, colleges, and seminaries of learning, within the State, your attention will probably, by some of these institutions, be called to that subject. The Colleges at Brunswick and Waterville are believed to be increasing in reputation and usefulness, under the government of able and learned Presidents. The ardent attachment which has recently been evinced for each of these institutions by liberal patrons in neighboring States, in assisting and cheering the one in its infancy and relieving the other in its calamity, will not surely diminish their claims upon our protection. Whatever assistance may, from time to time, be necessary to sustain establishments so important to the character and stability of a free government, will undoubtedly be afforded so far as it can be done consistently with the circumstances of the people. Those who call upon the Legislature for grants, should, however, recollect that we are now defraying the extraordinary expences necessarity [necessarily] incurred in the organization of a new government, and that still further appropriations will soon become necessary to ensure the due execution of the laws. These are considerations which must be kept in view, and will have their weight in the discussion of every subject with which the situation of the Treasury is connected.