Understanding that you are about to leave the Employ of the State We Sir The undersigned members of the General Assembly, having the fullest confidence in your integrity; and ability as an Engineer would most earnestly request that you would Continue, in the Employ of the Board of Public Works, of this State, until the Surveys contemplated in the Bill for an Act to Establish & Maintain a Genera[l] System of Internal Improvements, are fully completed & that you by no means or from no cause retire from the state service.