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6. Salaries 50 



7. General Assembly ......... 51 



8. Military Expenses 52 



9. Grants to Religious Societies, etc 53 



10. Bounties and other Encouragements 55 



a. Wolves 55 



b. Silk ........... 55 



c. Hemp and Flax 55 



d. Other Encouragements ....... 56 



11. Abatement and Collection of Taxes 57 



F. Summary 57 



Second Period. 1818-1846. Period of Slow Development. 



A. Elements of Discontent . . . , 



a. Demand for Written Constitution 



b. Demand for Religious Liberty 



c. Demand for Change in Taxation 



B. Republican Administration 



1. New Constitution 



a. Constitutional Convention 



b. System of Government 



c. Religious Freedom . 



d. School Fund . 



2. Changes in Grand List 



a. Objections to Old List . 



b. Revision .... 



C. Sources of Revenue . 



1. State Tax .... 

 a. Grand List 



2. Permanent Fund 



a. Composition of Fund in 1818 



b. Reinvestment of Fund . 



c. Increase of Fund . 



d. Condition of Fund in 1833 and 1846 



e. Income of Fund 



3. Duties on Writs. Licenses 



4. Tax on Non-resident Stock 



5. Forfeited Bonds and Avails of Courl 



6. State Prison 



7. Extraordinai'y Receipts 



a. From Permanent Fund 



b. Repayment of Advances 



c. Land Sales 



d. Surplus Funds of the United States (Town Deposit Fund) 



8. School Fund 



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