Expenditures. 103 



Governor, $1100 



Lieutenant Governor, 300 



Secretary of State, 1000 



Treasurer, 1000 



Comptroller, 1000 



Commissioner of School Fund, 1250 



Judges of the Supreme Court, ^ 2000 



Judges of the Superior Court,^ 2000 



The entire salary of the commissioner of the school fund and three 

 hundred dollars of the treasurer's salary were payable from the 

 school fund. 



3. Judicial Expenditures. 



The judicial expenditures, which first became the chief item of 

 state expense in 1823 and which had risen from the insignificant 

 sum of about twenty-five hundred dollars in 1801 to thirty-three 

 thousand nine hundred eleven dollars for the closing year of the 

 second period, increased rapidly during the third period and for the 

 year ending in 1858 reached the hitherto unequaled amount of 

 eighty-six thousand two hundred dollars. Notice that in the early 

 part of the state's history it took forty-six years (1801-1846) for the 

 annual cost to increase thirty thousand dollars. In these later 

 years the much shorter interval of twelve years (1847—1858) was 

 signalized by an increase of more than fifty-two thousand dollars. 



There are several causes for this increase. An act passed by the 

 legislature in 1845 allowed the towns to shift upon the state the 

 costs of certain cases brought before justices of the peace which 

 the towns had formerly been obliged to pay.^ This, however, was 

 only a minor cause. The principal causes are three. First, the 

 rapidly growing population and its concentration in the cities natu- 

 rally tended to increase crime. Second, the state was admitting 

 many foreigners who were in a measure unaccustomed to the freedom 

 of this country and who therefore sometimes mistook liberty for 

 license. Most important of all, the growth of corporations — manu- 

 facturing, banking, and railroad — during this period was the oc- 

 casion for many new legal questions involving litigation to arise. 

 The total judicial expenditures (exclusive of the salaries of the 

 judges of the supreme, superior, and county courts) for the fifteen 

 years of this period were eight hundred twenty-nine thousand three 

 hundred fifty-four dollars. 



^ As changed by sec. 15, chap. 26, Pubhc Acts of 1855. 

 2 Public Acts, 1845, chap. 22. 



