102 The Financial History of Connecticut. 



B. Expenditures. 

 1. The General Assembly. 

 The salaries of the members of the general assembly remained 

 the same as in the last period, the senators receiving two dollars 

 a day and the members of the House of Representatives one dollar 

 and a half a day. Both continued to receive for mileage an allow- 

 ance of nine cents per mile.^ The expenses of the assembly in- 

 creased during this period from about twenty-four thousand dollars 

 a year to approximately thirty-five thousand dollars a year. This 

 increase is explained in part by the increased amount of legislation 

 and consequently longer sessions. 



2. Salaries. 



In general, the salaries of the principal officials of the state re- 

 mained the same as they were at the close of the last period. ^ In 

 1847 an important change was made in the compensation of the 

 secretary of state. Until this time he had received eighty-four 

 dollars a year and was allowed certain stipulated fees for official 

 services. The assembly, in 1847, fixed his salary at one thousand 

 dollars a year and at the same time directed the secretary to turn 

 all fees received by him into the state treasury.^ 



In 1855 the assembly increased the number of judges of the su- 

 preme and superior courts, from five to nine.* Each one of these 

 judges was allowed a salary of two thousand dollars a year.^ The 

 salaries of all the five judges constituting these courts before this 

 change aggregated fifty-three hundred dollars a year. The new 

 law, therefore, increased the expense for salaries of the judges of 

 these courts by twelve thousand seven hundred dollars. However, 

 as the county courts were superseded by the superior court under 

 the provisions of this same act,^ this increased expense was reduced 

 to ninety-eight hundred dollars. No other changes in the salaries 

 of the principal officials occurred in this period. Their salaries at 

 the close of this period were as follows^ : 



1 Revised Statutes, 1849, title 16, sec. 1 ; Conn. Statutes (Compilation of 

 1854) title 46, sec. 1. 



2 Cf. p. 87. 



3 Public Acts, 1847, chap. 45. 



* Public Acts, 1855, chap. 26, sec. 1, 11. 



^ Idem, sec. 15. 



" Public Acts, 1855, chap. 26, sec. 17. 



" Conn. Statutes (Compilation of 1854), title 46, sec. 1. 



