72 The Financial History of Connecticut. 



second period exceeds that of the best part of the first period by 

 over thirty-five hundred dohars.^ 



3. Duties on Writs. Licenses. 



The revenue received in duties and hcenses maintained its rank 

 of third in the amount received from the various sources until March 

 31, 1833. In relative importance it gained upon the state tax and 

 upon the income from the permanent fund. At no time in its history 

 has the state derived so large a portion of its revenue from duties 

 and licenses as during these years. The duties on writs, continu- 

 ances, petitions and appeals of various descriptions, which yielded, 

 during the first period, the larger portion of the revenue from duties 

 and licenses, held this supremacy for the first year only of the second 

 period. They were then surpassed by the receipts from the five- 

 dollar license fee for selling liquor. A duty of two per cent of the 

 proceeds arising from the sale of foreign goods at auction was levied 

 in 1820.2 Several exceptions were made^ and in 1821 a few more 

 articles were added to the list of exceptions.^ The returns from 

 this duty were small, never exceeding one hundred seventy dollars 

 in one year. A license fee of one hundred dollars was imposed in 

 1825 upon persons selling lottery tickets.^ An act for the regulation 

 of lotteries passed by the legislature in 1830 marked the beginning 

 of the end of lotteries.^ This act contains no provision for a hcense 

 fee for the sale of lottery tickets and the state derived no revenue 

 from this source after 1830. Acts of the assembly passed in 1828^ 

 and 1829^ repealed nearly all the duties on writs, etc., and in 1832 

 the liquor license fees were given to the towns granting the licenses.^ 

 Consequently after March 31, 1833, the receipts from duties and 

 licenses amounted to very little. Because of the relative impor- 

 tance of this source of revenue during the years April 10, 1818, and 

 March 31, 1833, a table is here given showing the receipts from 

 each. In this table duties on writs, continuances, petitions, etc., 

 are included in column A ; under B liquor license fees appear ; C 



1 Cf. pp. 35, 70. 



- Public Statute Laws, 1820, chap. 48, sec. 1. 

 ■ 3 Ibid 



* Public Statute Laws (Revision 1821), title 4, sec. 1. 

 5 Public Statute Laws, 1825, chap. 17, sec. 2. 



® PubHc Statute Laws, 1830, chap. 19, sec. 11. 

 ' Public Statute Laws, 1828, chap. 40. 



* Public Statute Laws, 1829, chap. 14. 



^ Public Statute Laws, 1832, chap. 4, sec. 2. 



