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the Mattanawcook road and of the Baring road will be laid before you, and will require your consideration. The Canada road, according to the report of the agent appointed to examine and inspect it, appears to have been completed during the past year and is now believed to be safe and convenient for travelers. An easy communication, thus opened between this State and our friendly neighbors cannot fail to be mutually beneficial. It will afford an opportunity for the increase of our trade, by the interchange of commodities, will promote the sale and settlement of the State's land in the vicinity of the route and contribute to the continuance of the very friendly understanding now happily subsisting. The greatest inconvenience that exists in passing the road is the want of suitable houses of entertainment, established at proper distances, throughout the route. In order, with as little delay as possible, to remedy this deficiency, I would respectfully suggest the appropriation of a lot of land, at the most eligible situation, for the use of the person, who within a limited time, shall erect thereon suitable buildings to be occupied for a stipulated number of years, as a public house for the accommodation of travelers. Before closing the subject, it becomes my duty to state that information has been received from a respectable source, that a part of the road, lately completed, passes over the Bald Mountain, in a direction different than that prescribed by a resolve of the State. The Executive department of the last year declined paying the balance of the appropriation claimed by the contractors in order that the subject might be referred to the consideration of the legislature. In the erection of the State House at Augusta much progress has been made. The exterior walls and colonnade are completed. The finishing of the interior is the principal work that remains to be done, and will require an additional appropriation to be made by the Legislature. The building, constructed of the most beautiful and durable materials, on a