A RESOLUTION to procure information concerning Common Schools. WHEREAS it is desirable, in the adoption of a general system of common schools, that the Legislature should have the benefit of the experience and observation of enlightened and practical men, whose minds have been devoted to the subject: Therefore,

Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. That the Rev. Alva Woods and the Rev. Benjamin O. Peers, be respectfully requested to communicate to the General Assembly, at its next annual session, any information which they may possess upon the subject of common schools, and which, in their opinion, would aid the Legislature in selecting and adopting the best system for the State of Kentucky.

[Approved, January 29, 1829.}

RESOLUTIONS to procure information concerning the navigation of certain rivers.

Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the board of internal improvements be requested to urge up on the consideration of the Secretary of War, the propriety of adding to the engineers now engaged in surveying the Kentucky, Licking and Green rivers, a practical building engineer, and that such engineer should make such examination of those rivers, as will enable him to report to this General Assembly, at an early day of the next session, the practicability of improving the navigation of those streams, and a plan or plans for such improvements.

Resolved, That the board of internal improvements endeavor to receive all the information in their power, and communicate it to the next General Assembly, and that the said board of internal improvements call the attention of such engineer or enginees, as may be deputed by the Secretary of the war department, to examine the rivers referred to in the foregoing resolution, to the effects of the bridges proposed to be erected on the Ohio river by two acts of the present session, on the navigation of that river.

[Approved, January 29, 1829]

RESOLUTIONS in relation to the Cumberland Hospital.

THE select committee to whom was referred the memorial of the Trustees of the Cumberland Hospital, have had the same under con sideration, and report thereon:

That the State of Kentucky, under an impression that a hospital located at Smithland, which is situated on the Ohio, at the mouth of the Cumberland river, was an establishment which the wisdom, the policy and the humanity of the States bordering on the Ohio river required, appropriated four thousand dollars towards the erection of comfortable buildings at that place, which sum has been pru

dently and judiciously expended; that a large and commodious brick house has been completed and prepared for the reception of the sick, divided off into a number of well constructed and convenient rooms; that a kitchen and all other necessary buildings have been erected, and every thing in a perfect state for the reception of the sick water-men who may be placed in said hospital: a regular bred physician has been procured to attend, and nurses to wait on and administer to the comfort of the patients. These arrangements were all completed last fall, and every attention, from that time to the present, paid those who were in the hospital, and all restored to health and thrown back upon society. The committee would here remark, that not one patient who has been in the hospital was a resident of Kentucky, but citizens of other States. The committee, apon examining into the state of the funds of said hospital, find that they are all nearly expended, and the continuance of the successful operation of the establishment, must depend upon the aid to be afforded by the government of the United States, out of the marine hospital fund, and the contributions of the States bordering on the Ohio, because all the States on the Ohio are equally interested in having the sick water-men provided for, and although the same is situated in Kentucky, her citizens are not more deeply interested in it than those of the States of Tennessee, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania; besides, it is to be borne in mind that Kentucky has erected all the buildings, and independent of that fact, has expended upwards of forty thousand dollars in erecting a hospital at the city of Louisville, and now, by her own means, keeps it in operation and receives into it the sick water-men from every part of the world.

The committee feel persuaded, that an appeal to Congress and the States, will not be made in vain, for aid to keep up and sustain said institution. The committee submit the following resolutions:

Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That our members in Congress be requested to use their best efforts to obtain a contribution out of the marine hospital fund, to be ap propriated towards defraying the annual expences of the Cumberland hospital, and as additional means for its support, to authorise the State of Kentucky to collect a toll on the commerce of the river, where the same shall land at Smithland.

Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit copies of this report and resolutions to the Governors of the States of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and respectfully request the attention of those States to the objects contemplated in this report.

[Approved, January 29, 1829.]