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the same, and to report all the facts which will be for the interest of the State to enable them to adopt some mode of quieting the settlers in their in their possession. Sam E Smith Council Chamber January 31, 1832.

To the Speaker of the House of Representatives In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives to be furnished with the information that may be in my possession in relation to the acts and doings of the Mangers and others, acting by virtue of the laws authorizing certain Lotteries in this State, I herewith transmit a copy of the Report of the Council, made on the 31st day of December last, in relation to the accounts and proceedings of the Managers of the Cumberland and Oxford Canal Lottery: and also a copy of a communication from the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, who were requested by the Council to give an opinion requested by the Council to give an opinion upon certain questions of law, which arose in the course of the investigation. A copy of this Report has been communicated to the Managers of the Lottery and S.H. Mudge, who claims to be a party interested, has replied, through his attorney by a petition, a copy of which is also herewith transmitted. The Lottery for the benefit of a Bridge at Sullivan Ferry was granted by the Legislature, March 7th, 1826, and by Sundry reports of the Managers had, in the opinion of the Council of 1827, exceeded the amount authorized to be raised by this Lottery by the sum of $538.76, and by a