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IV upon the choice of public officers, or be properly dealt by when detected, I respectfully suggest, whether it may not be advisable to render them, in this State, penal offenses by legislative enactment, and subject to exemplary punishment. I cannot but regard the late Acts of Congress relative to the Gold and Silver currency of the country, as conducive to great improvement in this essential department of our national concerns. And it is worth of consideration, whether a gradual curtailment of the privilege of issuing bills under the denomination of five dollars, now extended to the several Banking Institutions in this State, by the twentieth section of the Act of March 31, 1831, will not beneficially serve the policy, thus commended by national legislation. Simultaneous with operation here suggested an enactment of similar import with the repealed section of "An Act to restrain unincorporated Banking Associations, and for the other purposes," passed March 13, 1821, would also be found expedient, to prohibit the circulation, within this State, of the Bills of foreign Banks, of denominations prohibited to Banks in our own State. Upon the subject of education, the duties of the Legislature are made imperious by the language of our State Constitution. Much has heretofore been done by the State Government for the improvement of the rising generation, but it is in the nature of this class of claims to increase with the increasing abilities of our people and government to support them. Perhaps an undue proportion of the bounties of the State, has heretofore been applied to the education of the male sex. I need not urge upon intelligent and reflecting minds, the important as well as the justice, of advancing at an equal pace, the cultivation of intellectual power in the two sexes. The progress of our youth in knowledge and