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The letters, dated on the 18th July last,
and
which, as Secretary of the Board of
Commissioners,
constituted by the act, entitled, an act to
provide for
the improvement of the internal navigation of
this
state, you addressed to us, respectively, came to
hand,
with their enclosures, in due season.
We have forborne advertising our appointment, or
taking any step to
procure and receive subscriptions
in lands, or money, to be applied
to the construction
of the contemplated canals, from a conviction
that
an appeal to our fellow citizens for voluntary aid,
under
existing circumstances, would be premature.
Until the Legislature
has passed an act, whereby the
public faith is pledged for beginning
and complet-
ing the canal, we apprehend no discreet citizen
will
be disposed to deprive himself of the use of his land,
or
money, for a considerable period of time. The
sole object of the act
appointing the Commissioners,
is to obtain, from their report, a
mass of useful in-
formation, for the purpose of guiding the
judgment
of the Legislature, in deciding on the expediency of
undertaking, or rejecting, the proposed enterprise.
Although we are
well persuaded that the trusts re-