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It is due all the officers with whom I have been immediately associated to acknowledge a high respect for their efforts to promote the public good.

  Regarding more particularly the objects of the administration of the past year, the prescriptions to the executive by your immediate predecessors stand conspicuous .The wisdom displayed will not only command a grateful recollection hereafter but is evidently approved at present, as is attested by the presence of so large a portion of the members of the last Legislature. The proof of zeal and fidelity in the execution of what that distinguished body prescribed is to be foud if at all in these documents now respectively submitted to your examination. These will be found among them the proper reports relating to two objects of internal improvement the Kennebec and Houlton roads which are of primary consequence, and not only demanded by existing wants but which must gradually grow in importance and utility. They are adverted to now because all that has been done, has been simply in the way of preparation and much is still required for the effectuation of the object