52 The Financal History of Connectiicut. 



and those of the representatives to two dollars a day.^ This raise in the 

 salaries and an extra session called in January, 1815, increased the 

 expenses for the year ending April 30, 1815, and the average annual 

 expenditure of the assembly for the last four years of this period 

 (May 1, 1814, to April 10, 1818) was twenty-nine thousand twenty- 

 two dollars. 



8. Military Expenses. 

 After the close of the revolutionary period and before the war 

 clouds of the second conflict with Great Britain began to lower, 

 the mihtary expenses of Connecticut were so small as to be negligible. 

 The few that were incurred were entered under "Contingent Ex- 

 penses." In the comptroller's report of May, 1808, the account of 

 "Advances to Quartermaster General" appears for the first time. 

 Only two hundred twenty-five dollars was advanced for the two 

 years ending April 30, 1809, but in that year the general assembly 

 began to vote to increase the fortifications of the state in order to 

 be better prepared for war. As a consequence, the military ex- 

 penditures for the two years ending April 30, 1811, amounted to 

 seventy-five hundred dollars. During the next year the probability 

 that the United States would declare war against Great Britain be- 

 came stronger continually and the state expended ten thousand 

 seven hundred nine dollars in strengthening her military equipment. 

 War was actually declared in June, 1812. At the October session 

 of the assembly in 1814 a bounty of twenty-five dollars was voted 

 to every person who should enlist in the state forces during the war 

 and every person who enlisted for a term of three years was to re- 

 ceive ten dollars additional bounty.^ Two new accounts were opened 

 because of the war, one with the paymaster general in 1813, and 

 one with the commissary general in 1814. The total military ex- 

 penses for the four years ending in 1816 were as follows: 



For the year ending Apiil 30, 1813, $32,353. 



„ „ „ „ „ „ 1814, 44,775. 



„ „ „ „ „ „ 1815, 147,803. 



„ „ „ „ „ „ 1816, 14,228. 



During the next year the reduction was very great and the total 

 military expense for the remaining two years of the period was only 

 two thousand two hundred sixty-seven dollars. 



In computing the cost of the war to the state, the amounts divert- 

 ed or taken from the funds appropriated to the purchase of bank 



1 Public Statute Laws, May 1814, chap. 5, p. 154. 



2 Public Statute Laws, Oct. 1814, chap. 4. 



