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The 35th and 36th Report of the Society for Bet-tering the Condition of the Poor. The New School for Education. The Barrington School. Report—Indigent Blind. Report—Refuge for the Destitute. Report—Relief of the Working Manufacturers. Report—Relief of the Poor in the City of Lon-don. House of Recovery in Typhus Fever. Society for the Encouragement of SundaySchools. Scheme of Finance. Geneva, Ontario County, 9th December, 1816. SIR, The letters, dated on the 18th July last, andwhich, as Secretary of the Board of Commissioners,constituted by the act, entitled, an act to provide forthe 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, ortaking any step to procure and receive subscriptionsin lands, or money, to be applied to the constructionof the contemplated canals, from a conviction thatan appeal to our fellow citizens for voluntary aid,under existing circumstances, would be premature.Until the Legislature has passed an act, whereby thepublic faith is pledged for beginning and complet-ing the canal, we apprehend no discreet citizen willbe disposed to deprive himself of the use of his land,or money, for a considerable period of time. Thesole 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 judgmentof the Legislature, in deciding on the expediency of undertaking, or rejecting, the proposed enterprise.Although we are well persuaded that the trusts re-