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effectually. In a land such as we inhabit, affording numerous advantages for successful industry, there ought to be but few occasions calling, for the interposition of public alms. Still these will necessarily occur, and should be property provider for, But where pauperism is the result of vice or of idleness, the public bounty administered by a discipline calculated to work reform, as well as yield support. Pursuant to a Resolve of the last Legislature, a Board of Commissioners on Internal Improvements has been organized, and will improve the earliest opportunities, of fulfilling the designs for which it was instituted. The appropriation already made for the purpose of defraying the expences of its operation, will probably be sufficient to meet its demand upon the Treasury, during the current year.