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have never been concerned in the violation of the nights to the common property not in the consequent prosecutions; and if a few persons have disgraced the class of menu to whom they belong let me pledge myself for the others that they are too honorable and too proved not to repress every thing which can demand the resistance of the Law. I know them and that they are men who in certain emergence are highly capable to sustain the rights and honor of the State. Many propositions and statements have been made to me in favor of a change in our system of sales & settlement of the public lands and it has been expected that some executive representation should be made to you. I can only say that the system is simple and plain, that it is easy of execution and that it seems to me based on the solid foundation of common sense. Plans, embracing many conditions as to improvement, residence and other objects, making up a code of rewards and punishments to be administered executive of my legislative have been proposed. Such schemes cannot be subject to serious objections and it is probable that no mode can be better than that of selling on reasonable long credits, at low prices, and in small parcels so as to accommodate all, and also without unnecessary conditions. It will be always practicable to pass acts, as circumstances may require similar to the excellent provision made during the last year by which public debtors were permitted to pay what they owed in the construction of a very valuable road commonly called the Metanawcook road.

 It is a common but very indiscreet and incorrect remark that out public lands are not valuable to the State. A proper examination of the subject will show that merely in a fiscal calculation they are of much useful importance. It is to pronounce the State unfit for self government to saw that millions of acres of goodly hills and dales watered by long and boatable streams are of no value. Whether, however, of value or not in regard to the treasury they are of immense importance to use for Charity and beneficence. Even the privileged of being able to give them array is worth more than, without it would be the highest mine of gold