To prepare for tlie accomplishment of this apparently very necessary part of the navigation, your committee recommend, That accurate surveys sliould be made, as early in the ensuing spring as circumstances will permit, to enable the board to determine the direction in wliich Canals are to run, to take .the necessary preliminary measures for providing the materials ; that, if the works at tlie Falls, &.c., should be completed before the wdiole of the next operating season is expired, the residue may be appropriated to this important part of the navigation, and completed in the succeeding year; -- Soon after tliis sliall be accomplished, the company will be enabled to judge with precision, wliat farther is in their power, and if what they have done, should prove beneficial to tlie community at large, and the resources of the compaiiy be tlien found not competent to such a perfect completion of tlie whole internal navigation, as is contem})lated by the act of incorporation, there can be little doubt but that an enlightened Legislature will extend its aid, to objects promising such extensi\e benefits to every class of citizens.

It now remains for your Committee to venture an opinion on the mode of conducting the contemplated improvements. The observations already made w^ll evince tlie necessity of strict economy in every openition. It will certaiidy occur to the Directors, that in a work so exteiisi\<:", as tiiat committed to tliem, much unnecessary expeiice, and imicli waste of time must be incurred, unless the executive part of the business be properly conferred ; and your committee, to avoid this evil as much as possible, recommend t'lat the executive of the business should be committed to a sin.!,le direc'.ing liead, to a man of known and acknowledged abilities, of a mind so comprehensive, as to combine and form all the arrangements, witli a minute detail of each part; capable of foreseeing what will be wanting in future, that the supplies may be prepnred, witlxmt incurring t!iat extra expence which ever attends collections made on the spur (tf the occasion"; In short, a man, who if he has not had ]nactical experience, has activity, ingenuity and judgment sufhcient to compensate in a degree for that defect -- so capable of profiting by experiment, that the artists, whom he superintends, may not