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and the institution was opened in Hartford on April 15, 1817.^ The 

 legislature made a grant of five thousand dollars to this asylum in 

 its opening year. During this entire period no other state appro- 

 priation to a charitable institution was made. 



6. Salaries, 



Under the system of accounting used by the state financial officers 

 at this time, an account was kept called " Salaries." Under this 

 head, however, only the salaries of the executive officers and the 

 judges of the superior court were included. In treating this sub- 

 ject we shall state the salaries of the most important state officials. 



The governor's salary from 1790 until 1814, with the exception of 

 the three years ending April 30, 1798, when it was about a third higher, 

 was one thousand dollars a year. For the year ending April 30, 1815, 

 it was twelve hundred fifty dollars and from this date to the close 

 of this period it was twelve hundred dollars a year. 



The salary of the lieutenant governor from 1790 until April 30, 

 1795, was three hundred dollars a year. It varied slightly for the 

 next three years, being about four hundred dollars. For the years 

 May 1, 1798, until April 30, 1810^ it varied but a few cents from three 

 hundred thirty-four dollars a year. It was then raised to six hundred 

 dollars and remained at this figure until the year commencing May 1, 

 1814, when it was raised to eight hundred fifty dollars. The follow- 

 ing year it was again raised and became nine hundred dollars. 

 This continued to be the salary of the lieutenant governor for the 

 remaining years of the period. 



The treasurer and the comptroller received the same salary until 

 the year ending April 30, 1815. At first they received six hundred 

 sixty-six and two-thirds dollars a year. For the three years ending 

 April 30, 1798, their salary was eight hundred eighty-eight dollars 

 and eighty-nine cents. The next year it fell over two hundred dollars 

 and was raised in each of the two following years, so that for the 

 year ending April 30, 1801, it was slightly more than eight hundred 

 thirty-three dollars. This continued to be the salary of the treasurer 

 for the rest of the period. The comptroller also received this salary 

 until it was raised to one thousand dollars in 1815. 



The secretary of state received most of his compensation in fees, 

 his salary varying from sixty-six and two-thirds dollars received 

 for each of the first five years of the period to eighty-eight dollars 

 and ninety cents a year during the three years ending April 30, 1798. 



^ Conn. Quarterly, vol. ix, pp. 596—601. 



