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assembly voted to divide among the different religious denomi- 

 nations and Yale College, in definitely specified proportions, the 

 money which should be received from the United States in payment 



for advances made by the state during the war of 1812.^ 

 SXd^™ ices ^^^ United States made some payments the next year 



and the money was divided as authorized. In 1832, 

 it became evident that the state was to receive more money from 

 the United States in full payment of the aforesaid advances. No 

 act had ever been passed repealing the act of 1816 in regard to the 

 distribution of the money thus received and there was doubt whether 

 the above act was still in force. Accordingly, the general assembly, 

 in 1832, directed the treasurer to hold, until after the rising of the 

 next assembly,^ money which might be received from the United 

 States in payment of the war advances. No money was received 

 from the United States during the year ; but it was still expected 

 and the assembly of 1833 was ready to determine what should be 

 done with the money. It repealed the act of 1816 and all acts 

 relating to appropriation of money thus received from the United 

 States.^ It also voted that whenever the state should receive from 

 the United States any money in payment for advances made by 

 the state during the war of 1812, the state treasurer should dis- 

 tribute it, in proportion to the grand list of August 20, 1813, among 

 the towns which had been incorporated previous to that date. Towns 

 which had subsequently been formed from the older towns were to 

 receive their share by a division of the amounts allotted to the 

 older towns according to the "residence of the inhabitants and 

 the location of estates on August 20, 1813."^ The United States 

 government did not make the expected payments until the fiscal 

 year ending March 31, 1839, when it paid seventjz-two thousand 

 two hundred thirty-four dollars to the state treasurer. This entire 

 amount, however, was not apportioned among the towns, for in the 

 previous year, owing to the needs of the state treasury, the general 

 assembly had voted to retain thirty-five thousand dollars of the 

 money which the United States should pay the state in return for 

 the war advances.^ The amount actually distributed among the 

 towns was about thirty thousand dollars. Thus the state treasury 

 was strengthened by over forty-two thousand and the state was 



1 Public Statute Laws, Oct. 1816, chap. 13. Cf. pp. 53, 54. 



2 Public Statute Laws, May 1832, chap. 30. 

 ^ Public Statute Laws, May 1833, chap. 6. 

 * Public Statute Laws, May 1833, chap. 7, 



^ PubKc Statute Laws, May 1838, chap. 55. 



