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practice to assignments to creditors, submitted to your correction as being substantially what is called an insolvent law which might be improved or abolished with advantage.

In connection with this is the latter subject, our penal code and all that retales to the penitential establishment at Thomaston. I have feared that the executive department may be considered as not having done enough under the special authority with which it has been interested. The facts however will be fully exhibited and it is now committed to your wisdom to regulate the future proceedings, as well as to determine on the past. It has believed that your attention to the subject is required by the facts, the development of which may probably be most advantageously dispensed with on this occasion. The documents which have been obtained will be left on the table.

There are several other subjects, requiring in some mode executive explanations, because they have been submitted to executive direction, such for example as the New Hampshire Boundary, and the public buildings; but as there are documents in all these cases it is presumed that the submission of these by leaving them in your possession may be as agreeable and useful as any other mode of communication. It should however be mentioned that the peculiar advantages of the place from 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 Legislature has fallen short of the object intended although the final expense of a simple, solid and 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, emi