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VIII has at length been completed, agreeably to the arrangement of this State with Massachusetts. The importance of this road to the internal commerce of our State, is rapidly developing, as the attention and enterprize of our citizens are more directed to the advantages which are opened to them by it. The want of settlements upon parts of this road retards somewhat its general usefulness. This consideration, in connection with the interest, which the State still retains in an extensive tract of land through which it passes, may properly suggest the policy of affording, for a limited period, new encouragements to settlers upon this road. By a Resolve of the last Legislature, the State agreed to assume the repair and preservation of the Mars Hill Road, from its commencement in Lincoln, in the County of Penobscot, to its termination in Houlton, in the County of Washington, provided it should be first put in a state of repair by the United States. In the month of September last, I was advised by the acting Quarter Master of the Army of the United States, that the road was then in the repair contemplated by the Resolve, and ready to be surrendered to the care of the State Government. An Agent was thereupon appointed to examine and report upon the condition of the road as thus offered. A Report favorable to the acceptance of the road has been made by him, and a copy of the same is herewith transmitted. I have been informed by the Agent appointed on order a Resolve of the Legislature passed March 5, 1832, that he has completed the Baring and Houlton Road through the Indian township number two, in the County of Washington, and through the tracts belonging to the State, with the exception of about four and a half miles in township number eight. This section is