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The board of public works, createdat the
last session, being charged with the superin-
tendence and management of all improvements
to be executed or patronised by the state, and
generally, with all the intererts and concerns of
this great subject, and with the special duty of
reporting fully to you, during the second week
of your session, all their proceedings,—We
will not encroach upon their province, by enter-
ing into any detail upon this interesting topic,
but conclude this brief and general view of it,
with an assurance that we are duly impressed
with its transcendent importance, and that we
shall at all times take great pleasure in co-oper-
ating with you in the promotion of all proper
objects of improvement, and in earring into
effect, so far as may depend on us, every work
that you may authorise and provide for.

The subject of the resolution No. 12, engag-
ed a large share of the attention of both houses
of Congress, during their last session, and was
so far acted upon as to develope such a vari-
ety of views and feelings in relation to it, as to
render the adoption of any alteration of the ex-
isting provisions of the national constitution
in relation to the election of President and
Vice-President of the United States, highly
problematical.

We consider it very desirable that a uniform
system of voting for those high officers should
be adopted; and we believe the district system
preferable to ail others: whether the elections