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[Governors Message]

by liberal patrons in neighbouring States, in assessing 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 expenses 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.

Under the resolve of the second of February last a committee has been appointed to collect information and investigate the subject of the punishment of convicts and the establishment of a state prison. The instructions contained in said resolve are so explicit, and point so particularly to every important object of inquiry that it has not been deemed necessary by the Executive to make any additions. But as the subject is probably of as great importance as any that will be presented for consideration the present session, I have deemed it proper to recommend it to your special attention. That some further provision has become necessary for the punishment of convicts is obvious. -

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