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Under the resolution No. 78, directing the
distribution of the 5th and 6th volumes of Har-
ris and Johnson's reports, we have caused
them to be delivered to such of the authorities
and persons entitled to receive them, as have
made application therefor. The second and
third volumes of the reports have been comple-
ted by the publishers and two hundred copies of
each delivered to us. Other volumes will be
obtained ns they may be published, under a
contract made with the reporters by the ex-
ecutive in 1824. No provision exists for the
distribution of any other than the 5th and 6th
volumes,

It would seem proper that the same authori-
ties and persons should receive the whole
work. We, therefore, recommend the subject
to your consideration with a view to such fur-
ther provision as may be necessary for that
purpose.

Agreeably to the directions of the general as-
sembly, we transmitted to his excellency the go-
vernor of Virginia, the preamble and resolution
No. 82, relative to the dividing line and boun-
dary between that state and this. And we em-
braced the occasion to say to his excellency,
the Legislature of Maryland have repeatedly,
manifested an anxious desire for the amicable
adjustment and definitive settlement of the a-
foresaid boundary line; and as the provision
now mde for that purpose will, if concurred in
by Virginia, insurr the accomplishment of that