Sources of Revenue. 75 



and the old prison at Newgate was- abandoned. The state took 

 measures to sell the old property and during the four fiscal years 

 ending on March 31, 1833, it received a total of seven thousand 

 two hundred sixty-four dollars from such sales. Meanwhile, the 

 state prison at Wethersfield had become self-supporting. It man 

 aged its own finances and its receipts were considerably higher than 

 its expenditures. The net profits of the prison from October 1, 

 1827, to March 31, 1846, were one hundred eight thousand four 

 hundred seventy-seven dollars. From this amount fourteen thou- 

 sand six hundred twenty-seven dollars was spent for buildings and 

 improvements.^ One thousand dollars was given to the Prison 

 Discipline Society in 1838 by order of the general assembly.^ In 

 accordance with an act passed by the assembly in 1840, granting 

 to each of the counties one thousand dollars whenever they should 

 erect suitable county prisons,^ the warden paid this sum to four 

 counties — Hartford, New London, New Haven and Middlesex. Its 

 surplus earnings were so large that the state at times made use of 

 them as revenue. The prison warden paid into the state treasury, 

 from March 31, 1830, to March 31, 1833, the sum of eighteen thou- 

 sand twenty-seven dollars. No further payments were made until 

 the year commencing April 1, 1840. Annual payments from the 

 prison were received by the state from this time, with the exception 

 of the year ending March 31, 1843, until the close of this period. 

 These payments amounted to forty-five thousand dollars, making 

 a grand total of over sixty-three thousand dollars which the state 

 received from the state prison.'' Financially, at least, the state 

 prison was a great success during the latter two-thirds of the second 

 period. 



7. Extraordinary Receipts. 

 In the discussion of the permanent fund, it was noted that in the 

 year ending March 31, 1828, the fund was diminished by the transfer 

 of $9,695.71 to the funds for current expenses and that 



mm Fev- another small transfer in 1833 made the total transfc 



manent ± una 



about ninety-seven hundred dollars.^ The rest ol 



the extraordinary receipts during this period came from the United 



States government. In 1816, it will be remembered, the general 



^ Computed from reports of the warden to the directors of the state 

 prison. (Included in reports of the rUrectors from 1842—1846.) 

 - Private Acts, 1838, p. 70. 

 3 Privcite Acts, 1840, p. 54. 

 * Cf. p. 89. 

 5 Cf. p. 69. 



