State Expenditures. 



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4. Salaries. 

 The constitution provided that the compensation of the governor, 

 lieutenant governor, senators and representatives should be estab- 

 lished and that if changes should be made, the changes could not 

 take effect until after an election, subsequent to the law making 

 the changes, had occurred. ^ The salaries of the principal state 

 officials as they stood at the time of the revision of 1821 were as 

 follows: 2 



Governor, 



Lieutenant Governor, 

 Secretary of State, 

 Treasurer, 



Comptroller, 

 Commissioner of School 



Fund, 

 Chief Judge of Superior 



Court, 

 Four Associates, each,^ 

 Senators, 



$1,100 



850 (changed in 1823 to $300)3 

 84 and fees^ 

 1,000 ($300 of this amount to be paid 



from school fund) 

 1,000 ($1250, beginning May, 1826) ^ 



1,000 (paid from school fund) 



1,100 

 1,050 



$2 



a day and mileage (9 cents 

 per mile) 

 Representatives, $1.50 a day and mileage (9 cents per 



mile) 



The salary list estabhshed by the legislature in 1820 differed from 

 this schedule in only one respect — it did not mention the commissioner 

 of the school fund. 



The Republicans effected a considerable saving by their revision 

 of salaries. The salary of the governor was lowered one hundred 

 dollars and that of the lieutenant governor fifty dollars from the 

 salaries they had been receiving from May, 1815, until this change 

 was made.' In 1823 the lieutenant governor's salary was reduced 

 live hundred fifty dollars more.^ The principal change, however, 



Conn. Constitution, art. iv, sec. 4. 



Revision of 1821, title 83, sec. 1. 



Public Statute Laws, May 1823, chap. 18. 



Revision of 1821, title 83, sec. 11. 



Compt. Report (Ms.), 1827. 



The five judges of the superior court also constituted the supreme court 



of errors. PubUc Statute Laws, Oct. 1818, chap. 

 ' Cf. p. 50. 

 ^ Pubhc Statute Laws, May 1823, chap. 18. 



