Expenditures. 51 



Commencing with the year that closed April 30, 1806, it remained 

 at eighty-four dollars throughout the period. 



The commissioner of the school fund was not appointed until 1810. 

 At first his salary was one thousand dollars, but in October, 1812, 

 the assembly established an additional salary of five hundred dollars. 

 This salary was paid out of the income of the school fund. After 

 this increase was given to him, the commissioner of the school fund 

 was the highest salaried state official of this p riod. 



The salary of the chief judge of the superior court was seven 

 hundred fifty dollars a year^ until in May, 1798,^ the legislature in- 

 creased it to one thousand dollars. The associate judges, at first 

 received six hundred sixty-seven dollars,^ but their salaries were 

 also raised by this act and thereafter they received nine hundred 

 dollars. 2 



The chief judge ot the supreme court of errors received two dollars 

 and a half a day and the other judges of this court were allowed two 

 dollars for each day of actual attendance. 



The salaries of the general assembly will be treated under the 

 next head. 



7. The General Assembly. 



The expenses of the general assembly, including the salaries of 

 its members, increased from £2895 19s. (equivalent to $9,653.67) 

 for the year ending March 31, 1790, to fifteen thousand four hundred 

 fifty-eight dollars for the year ending April 30, 1800. A considerable 

 part of this increase was due to the increase in the salaries of the 

 members of the general assembly. The assembly at its October 

 session in 1795 raised the pay of the assistants from one doUar and 

 a half to two dollars a day and that of the representatives from one 

 dollar a day to $1.34.'^ The allowance of mileage at the rate of nine 

 cents a mile, which the members received under the first act, was 

 not granted under the second. It was restored by the assembly in 

 May, 1802.4 From May 1, 1800, until April 30, 1814 (exclusive of 

 year ending April 30, 1806^), the expenses of the assembly averaged 

 seventeen thousand five hundred twenty-four dollars. In its session 

 in May, 1814, the legislature voted that beginning with that session 

 the salaries of the assistants should be raised to three dollars a day 



1 Conn. Laws, May 1787, p. 352. 



2 Conn. Laws, May 1798, p. 488. 



3 Conn. Laws, Oct. 1795, p. 181. 

 * Conn. Laws, May 1802, p. 590. 



^ The comptroller's Oct. 1805 report is missing 



