98 The Financial History of Connecticut. 



During the second period the entire amount spent for humane in- 

 stitutions was fifty-seven thousand three hundred forty dollars. 

 As only five thousand dollars of this sum was expended before 

 March 31, 1830, the average annual expenditure after the state began 

 the policy of annually appropriating money for such an object was 

 thirty-two hundred seventy-one dollars. This is not a large amount 

 to spend for such purposes, but it was at least a beginning of an 

 expenditure which increased considerably in the next period. 



During this period the state expenditures for buildings were as 

 follows : 



Public 

 Buildings 



Building new state prison, $33,000 



Addition to state prison. 7,926 



Building state house at New Haven, 32,359 



Alterations, etc., to Hartford State House, 9,460 

 Repairs of New Haven State House, 4,750 



Building and repairs of arsenal 2,000 



$89,495 



Of this amount the expenditures incurred for the buildings of the 

 state prison and of the arsenal have already been included in the 

 treatment of the state prison^ and mihtary expenses.^ Exclusive 

 of these, the entire amount spent for public buildings and insti- 

 tutions from April 1, 1823 (the year in which an expense of this 

 nature first appeared in this period) to March 31, 1846, was one 

 hundred five thousand one hundred thirty-eight dollars, an average 

 of nearly forty-six hundred dollars a year. Even if the exceptions 

 for arsenal and state prison are not made, the total will fall below 

 one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($148,064) and the average will 

 be only sixty-four hundred thirty-eight dollars a year. 



10. Abatement and Collection of Taxes. 

 When they revised the system of taxation at the beginning of 

 this period, the Republicans did not alter the existing provision 

 for abating one-eighth of one per cent of the state tax on the towns 

 nor did it change the fees paid to the collectors of the state tax.^ 

 During the entire period no change in these respects was made. 

 The abatements to the towns from April 10, 1818, to March 31, 1846, 

 amounted to one hundred forty-one thousand fifty-nine dollars 



1 Cf. pp. 88, 89. 2 cf. p. 88. ^ cf, p. 57, 



