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upon which all the arts and science lean for support. Encouraging [?] this necessary and advantageous pursuit of the citizen, by every provision calculated to elevate its character and extend its influence, is the obvious duty of the legislator and the patrict [?], at all times and in every government. In our own State particularly, when so vast and extent of territory, well adapted to the purposes of the husbandman, lies unoccupied and unimproved, much may be done towards the increase of agricultural resources, by a liberal policy in legislation.