A Report of the important hearing on the memorial of the New England Coal Mining Company for encouragement from the state : and on the numerous petitions of the freeholders in aid of the same : before the select special committee of the General Assembly of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations : together with the report of the committee unanimously adopted by the Assembly, in favor of the prayer of the memorialists and petitioners, and of a geological and agricultural survey of the state, in 1838.