RECEIPTS OF CASH from all sources during the year 1839. Amount transferred to Road Fund, Amount of sales of Oxen, transfered to Road Fund, 1967 3,401 74 476 00 29,456 64 161 00 $35,978 92 REPORT. To the Hon. RUFUS MCINTIRE, Land Agent of Maine: SIR-Having discharged the duty assigned to me of the general superintendance of the opening of the contemplated roads through the territory to the southward and westward of the St. John's River, I have the honor to REPORT, That on the 8th of July last, I left Ellsworth for the territory in question, and stopped at Bangor for the purpose of making some necessary arrangements. On the 9th I left that place for Lincoln, there to meet by appointment, Ira Fish, the joint agent of the States of Maine and Massachusetts, for the construction of the Aroostook Road from Number Four towards the St. Croix, having been appointed with him to examine some alterations which had been made by Mr Stinchfield, the preceding year, in the location of that road, and to determine on the expediency of their adoption. On the 10th, in company with Mr Fish, I proceeded to number four, where we were detained until the 13th, by heavy and incessant rains, which prevented the prosecution of our object. On the 13th we passed over the road in question, examining the old location, and the alterations which had been made, and determined on the latter being highly expedient, if not indispensably necessary, as avoiding hills which were so precipitous that they would always have been serious |