110 The Financial History of Connecticut. 



of the school requested.^ Four banks — the Central Bank at Middle- 

 town,2 the Farmers' Bank at Bridgeport,^ the Pequonnuc Bank at 

 Bridgeport,* and the Merchants' Bank at New Haven ^ — were direct- 

 ed in 1851 to pay bonuses aggregating forty-five hundred dollars 

 to the school. The state continued to appropriate money for the 

 reform school and a considerable portion of the appropriations was 

 expended in the purchase of land and the erection of buildings. 

 In addition to these appropriations, the state paid the institution 

 one dollar a week for the care of every boy committed to the school.^ 

 From April 1, 1855, which marks the beginning of the payments 

 for board, until March 31, 1861, the state paid to the school thirty- 

 nine thousand seven hundred ninety-five dollars for that purpose. 

 The appropriations from April 1, 1852, to the close of the period 

 amounted to eighty-two thousand seven hundred forty-six dollars 

 in addition to the payments for board. Adding to this the slight 

 expenses of the trustees of the institution (eleven hundred forty- 

 eight dollars), the total expense to the state in establishing and 

 supporting the school was one hundred twenty-three thousand six 

 hundred eighty-nine dollars. 



The state gave appropriations to the Hartford Hospital in the 

 years 1856, 1858 and 1861 amounting to twenty-six thousand five 

 hundred dohars. In 1857 one thousand dollars was 

 Other given to the New Haven Orphan Asylum and five 



tions hundred dollars each to the Hartford and Middle- 



town Orphan Asylums. At four different times dur- 

 ing the last eight years of the period, small sums were given to 

 the American Colonization Society to aid them in transporting 

 colored people to Africa. Only eleven hundred dollars was thus 

 expended. Finally, in 1860, provision was made for the education 

 of indigent idiotic children and the expense incurred for this purpose 

 was fifteen hundred dollars.'^ 



To clearly show the activity of the state in this direction, the 

 following summary of the amounts expended by the state for 



T-, .^ humane and charitable institutions from April 1, 1846, 

 Kecapitu- ^ 



lation to March, 31, 1861, is here given: 



1 Public Acts, 1851, chap. 46, sec. 12. 



2 Private Acts, 1851, p. 6. 



3 Private Acts, 1851, p. 58. . 

 * Private Acts, 1851, p. 50. 



5 Private Acts, 1851, p. 30. 



« Public Acts, 1851, chap. 46, sec. 13. 



' Private Acts, 1860, p. 88. 



