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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt:... several members of the two Houses will feel it to be their duty personally to aid the Treasurer in securing to the State as many shares as possible, but that the President and Directors, from courtesy and deference to the wishes of the legislature, will not strictly enforce against the State, the rule they have adopted for reducing subscriptions, in event of more shares being subscribed than is permitted by the charter. Your committee recommend to the two Houses to discharge them from the further consideration of the subject referred to them. Respectfully submitted. A. D. Murphey, Chairman. 21st November, 1818. Report of the Commissioners appointed to employ a Principal Engineer for the State and to have Sundry Surveys made.1 MR. MURPHEY'S REPORT. The Commissioners appointed by the last General Assembly to employ a Principal Engineer for the State, and to have sundry surveys made. REPORT, That their efforts to procure a Principal Engineer have been thus far unavailing. The numerous public works now carrying on in the United States, have given employment to the few eminent Civil Engineers upon this continent; and the offer by the Commissioners of a large salary, has not been sufficient to induce any one of them to leave his employment and enter into the service of North-Carolina. Six months of the present, and the whole of the last year, were spent in correspondence upon the subject of an Engineer; and seemed only to produce a conviction that a suitable character could not be had in the United States. The Commissioners were early advised to procure an engineer from England or from France; That the 'From Reports of Sundry Surveys, made in Obedience to Certain Resolutions of the General Assembly, passed in the Year 1817, etc. (Raleigh:..