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that measures be taken to collect other information having relation to the subject. More than ten years have elapsed since the ratification of the Treaty which provides for ascertaining & determining this boundary, during which time it is understood that those most interested in the success of the claim above referred to, have not been inactive in acquiring & furnishing their Government with a knowledge of every fact important for its support. Immediately after the close of the session of the last Legislature, arrangements were made for carrying into effect the Resolve providing “for the assistance of the Deaf & Dumb.” Such official notice was given through all the public papers printed in the State as would afford to the friends of those entitled to assistance, information of the time and manner of making their applications, and of the proof necessary to be exhibited. A surprizing [surprising] indifference to the subject seems to have prevailed almost throughout the State. The official returns shew [show] the whole number of deaf and dumb in the State to be upwards of two hundred, of these a small number only made any application. Nine, having been selected as proper subjects for education, were placed at the American Asylum, & are now receiving instruction at that Institution at the public expense. The Resolves of the last Legislature, “authorizing the Governor to procure a title to the land upon which the State Arsenal is erected, and for other purposes,” have been carried into effect so far as to procure a conveyance to the State, in fee, of the lot sufficiently extensive for the accomodation [accommodation] of such buildings and yards as may be necessary for the safe keeping and preservation of the ordnance and other military property of the State. As the conveyance could not be obtained until the season suitable for building had far advanced, it was thought most for the public interest to delay erecting the buildings and making the other improvements authorized by said Resolves until the ensuing spring.

Under the Resolve making an appropriation for the purpose, a contract has been entered into for supplying early in the ensuing season as many pieces of brass field ordnance as may be