Expenditures. Ill 



Asylum for Deaf and Dumb, $50,252 and $1,000 bank bonus. 



Perkins Institute for the Blind, 14,245 



Retreat for the Insane, 107,693 and $3,250 bank bonuses 



General Hospital Society, 14,000 and $2,000 bank bonus. 



State Reform School, 123,689 and $4,500 bank bonuses. 



Hartford Hospital, 26,500 



Other institutions, 4,600 



""$340,979 and $10,750 bank bonuses. 

 During this period the repairs on the New Haven state house cost 



the state twelve hundred ninety dollars and those on the Hartford 

 state house thirty-five hundred eighty-four dollars. 



buildhms Provision was also made for two county jails, one receiv- 

 ing a thousand dollars in 1847 and the other being paid 



an equal amount in 1853. 



9. Encouragements. 

 No bounties were offered by the legislature in this period. The 

 encouragement of agriculture by means of stimulating county agri- 

 cultural societies to offer premiums was, however, continued.^ 

 Payments were made in every year of the period, amounting in all 

 to twenty-five thousand one hundred six dollars. The state began 

 in the year ending March 31, 1855, to make an annual grant to the 

 State Agricultural Society on similar terms. If the society by 

 means of voluntary contributions, or by taxing its members, raised 

 twenty-five hundred dollars, the state agreed to double it, on con- 

 dition that the whole sum be offered as premiums at the annual 

 cattle show. In 1856 the legislature voted to make this an annual 

 appropriation,- but this resolution was repealed in 1857.^ One more 

 grant — one thousand dollars — was made to the state society in the 

 year ending in 1860, making the total of the state's contribution 

 eighty-five hundred dollars. Adding this amount to the sum re- 

 ceived by the county societies, the expenditure incurred by the 

 state in this period in the effort to encourage agriculture is found 

 to be thirty-three thousand six hundred six dollars. 



10. Abatement and Collection of Taxes. 

 In the revision of the system of taxation in 1851, the abatement 

 allowed to the towns on the state tax was withdrawn. ^ This course 



1 Cf. p. 91. 



2 Private Acts, 1856, p. 139. 



3 Private Acts, 1857, p. 207. 



* Public Acts, 1851, chap. 47, sec. 48. Cf. pp. 57, 98. 



