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New Hampshire Boundary, and the public buildings; but as there are documents in all these cases it is presumed that the submission of those by leaving them in your possession, may be as agreeable and useful as any other mode of communication. It however should be mentioned that the peculiar advantages of the place for our public buildings, are enhanced by the discovery of a granite quarry on the site selected. Yet you will perceive that the appropriation of land made by the last Legislature has fallen short of the object intended, although the final expense of a simple, solid & convenient structure will be much diminished by the discovery named. Allow me to subjoin as a general observation that no one can be more fully conscious than myself, that we are acting in behalf of a State eminently requiring the aid of vigilance, prudence, public spirit, intelligence & an impartial integrity in the administration of its government. He who will justly anticipate the vast production of good or evil in such a soil, will be careful as to what he shall plant. And although the intrenchments we have formed and the men who guard them may be destroyed it is a consolation to believe that such an effect cannot soon or easily be produced and not until the beauty and the benefit of agriculture and the arts, enjoyed under equal rights shall have distributed much of happiness. Enoch Lincoln Council Chamber Portland January 8th 1829

[See page 16. also 18.]

For the special Messages of the Governor delivered subsequently to the foregoing, see the Journal under the dates they were severally delivered, except the Messages of the 8th & 9th of January, which may be found in Appendix to the published Resolves.