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XV this subject a commissioner has been appointed to meet the commissioner appointed by Massachusetts in compliance with the request of this State, for the purpose of agreeing upon a system for the sale, disposition and management of the public lands, owned in common by the two States. From the character of these Commissioners, it is believed that their report, when received, will enable the Legislature of the two States to establish a uniform system for the purposes contemplated, that will not fail to promote the mutual interests of both. The Agents appointed to examine the Canada Road have reported, that the public interest requires the road to be made westward of the Bald Mountain, as provided in the Resolve for completing the road. The contractors having made the road over the mountain and in a different direction, have not complied with their contract and are not entitled to the balance of the appropriation for making it, unless the Legislature shall otherwise direct. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts having granted a township of land to aid in making this road, upon the condition that it should be finished by the first day of November 1830, it has been considered necessary that the Legislature of that Commonwealth should be requested to extend the time limited for its completion. I have accordingly, agreeably to the resolve of the last session, communicated the facts to the Governor of Massachusetts in order that the subject might be laid before that Legislature. In the meantime, the report of the Agents will be communicated to you, in order that such measures may be adopted for the completion of this road, as the interests of the State require.