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a. Principal and Income ........ 78 



b. Management of Fund 79 



c. Land Exchanges 79 



d. Investment of Fund . . . . . . . .80 



e. Composition of Fund 80 



f. Distribution of Income 81 



D. State Expenditures 82 



1. Education . 82 



a. Retrenchment 82 



b. Educational Institutions ....... 83 



2. Support of Paupers 84 



a. Measures of Economy 84 



b. Effects of Limitations ........ 85 



3. The General Assembly 86 



4. Salaries 87 



5. Militarj^ Department 88 



6. State Prison .......... 88 



7. Public Debt Discharged 89 



8. Bounties and Encouragements ....... 90 



a. Silk and Hemp 90 



b. Crows .......... 91 



c. Agricultural Societies 91 



d. Silk Manufacturing Company ...... 92 



e. The Farmington Canal 92 



f. Eailroads 94 



g. The Thames River 94 



9. Humane Institutions and Public Buildings .... 95 



a. Asylum for Deaf and Dumb 95 



b. General Hospital Society ....... 96 



c. Institution for the Blind 96 



d. Insane Retreat 97 



e. Public Buildings 98 



10. Abatement and Collection of Taxes ..... 98 



E. Summary 99 



1. Lovv^er Expenses 99 



2. Larger Income .......... 99 



3. Financial Prosperity 100 



Third Period. 1846-1861. Period of Expansion. 

 Increased Expenditures and Taxation. 



A. Growth ok Population .......... 101 



B. Expenditures 102 



1. The General Assembly 102 



2. Salaries 102 



3. Judicial Expenditures 103 



