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244 -nted, the purchaser shall have no claim on the State for the deficiency. Here is a loss in the outset, if such uncertainty exists, in consequence of imperfect surveys, no prudent man will give so high a price for land, as he would, were it otherwise. Neither the Government nor its agents appear ever to have had a proper knowledge of the lands granted, or offered for sale, nor have been able to give correct information to those who were disposed to purchase. On the plans deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, by the commissioners under the act of separation, are delineated the exterior lines of the townships and the rivers; but it does not appear by the field notes of the surveyors, also there deposited, that any surveys have been made, other than those of the exterior lines of the townships. It does not appear by what survey the courses of the streams are laid down, nor what is their capacity for floating down timber, for giving motion to machinery, nor what the quality of the land on their banks. The field notes of the surveyors, the plans above mentioned, and the agreements of the commissioners in the several divisions of public lands with Massachusetts, are almost the only documents which have been by them deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. I would suggest to the Legislature the inquiry, whether the commissioners have complied with the provisions of the act of separation, which requires that "copies of their records authenticated by them shall be deposited from time to time in the archives of the respective States".