Expenditures. 107 



Educational Fund Company as a condition of incorporation.^ The 

 state also paid four thousand dollars to this company in 1855.2 

 This company was formed to secure a building for the Normal School 

 at New Britain and therefore these grants are closely alhed to those 

 to the normal school. 



Wesleyan University was the only college to receive aid from the 

 state during this period. In 1851 the legislature authorized 

 p ,. ^ ^ the Middlesex County Bank to increase its capital 

 on the condition that it pay a bonus of two thousand 

 dollars to this institution.^ In the year 1854 a grant of ten thousand 

 dollars was made by the legislature which was paid in two equal 

 instalments during the fiscal years 1855 and 1856.* 



The state again gave aid to the Connecticut Literary Institution 

 in this period. The City Bank of Hartford, in the act incorpora- 

 ting it in 1851, was directed to pay a bonus of 

 The Conneeti- fj^g thousand dollars to this institution.^ In 1857 

 Institution' ^^^ thousand dollars was given to the institution 



by the state. ^ 



6. State Prison. 



The only expense to the state treasury for the prison during this 

 period was the salaries of the directors, which remained, as formerly 

 at one hundred dollars a year for each one of a board of three, and 

 twelve thousand two hundred dollars for repairs and the construction 

 of a new building. The total expense to the treasury was thus 

 sixteen thousand seven hundred dollars. The warden of the prison 

 paid into the state treasury during this period, from the surplus 

 earnings of the prison, the sum of sixteen thousand doUars. The 

 net expense of the prison to the state treasury was very small. 



7. State Paupers. 



The cost of supporting the state paupers for the first year of this 



period was fifteen hundred dollars. This was the last year of the 



contract previously made by the comptroller and the new contract 



called for only eleven hundred dollars a year. This remained in 



1 Private Acts, 1851, p. 15. 



- Compt. Report, 1855, under Contingent Expenses. 



3 Private Acts, 1851, p. 60. 



* Private Acts, 1854, p. 231. 



'" Private Acts, 1851, p. 15. 



6 Private Acts, 1856. p. 145 



