Expenditures. 53 



stock and applied to the purchase of munitions of war should be 

 included. The amount actually taken from this fund from July 1, 

 1811, to April 16, 1816, was forty-eight thousand five hundred three 

 dollars.! Jq ^j^is sum may be added the reimbursements on the United 

 States debt in the year ending April 30, 1809, amounting to sixteen 

 thousand nine hundred thirty-two dollars, which were appropriated 

 for the purchase of arms.^ This action by the state reduced the 

 permanent fund to this extent. 



The extraordinary expenditures caused by the war were defrayed, 

 for the greater part, by increasing the state tax on the towns. The 

 rate of the tax payable in February, 1809, was eight mills on the 

 dollar. This rate went up to a cent on the dollar for each of the 

 next three years and was raised to twelve mills for the tax due in 

 February, 1813. It became necessary to increase still further the 

 burden of taxation and a rate of two cents on the dollar was laid 

 for the taxes of February, 1814, and February, 1815. An extra tax, 

 payable June 1, 1815, was also levied. A comparison of the total 

 amount of the state tax for this four-year period (May 1, 1812 — ^April 

 30, 1816) with the total for the two years immediately preceding 

 and the two years immediately succeeding the given period will 

 give the best estimate of how much the state tax was really increased 

 during the war. The total amount of the tax for the former four- 

 year period was four hundred ninety-six thousand one hundred 

 thirty-nine dollars; the total amount of the tax for the latter four 

 years was two hundred twenty-six thousand three hundred forty- 

 five dollars. The difference between these two totals ($269,794) 

 represents roughly the increased taxation. The total military 

 expenditures during these same four years (1812—1816), exclusive 

 of those paid from the permanent fund, were two hundred thirty- 

 nine thousand one hundred fifty-nine dollars. This comparison of 

 figures clearly shows that the increased expenditures brought about 

 by the war were met chiefly by increasing the state tax on the towns. 



9. Grants to Religious Societies, etc. 

 The state thus succeeded in financing this war without incurring 

 a public debt. Hence when it received from the United States during 

 the fiscal years ending April 30, 1817, and April 10, 1818, the sum 

 of fifty-four hundred dollars in payment of war claims and six hundred 

 fifteen dollars in return for the services of the Connecticut troops 



1 Cf. pp. 34, 35. 



2 Cf. p. 34. 



