Expenditures. 47 



as a permanent prison. Three overseers, a keeper and a guard of 

 ten men, increased to seventeen in 1802, were appointed and two 

 brick buildings were erected. A twelve-foot stone wall was built 

 around the grounds in 1802, and in 1815 two more buildings were 

 constructed.^ The total expense of the prison to the state treasury 

 from 1790 to 1818 (exclusive of year ending April 30, 18062) was 

 one hundred nineteen thousand eight hundred four dollars, which 

 is an average annual expenditure of $4,437.18. 



3. Judicial Expenses. 



The expenses included under this heading are the costs of trans- 

 porting convicts to the state prison, the payment of sums necessary 

 to balance the accounts of the county courts and the amounts drawn 

 from the treasury by the clerks of the superior and county courts. 

 The entire amount expended during this period, exclusive of the 

 year ending in 1806 (the comptroller's report for October, 1805, is 

 missing), was one hundred eighty-seven thousand three hundred 

 twenty-two dollars. 



4. State Paupers, 

 The law under which the state incurred expense for paupers during 

 this period was passed by the assembly at its autumn session in 

 1789.^ Very few modifications of that law were made aftei its pas- 

 sage. It provided that every town should be responsible for the 

 support of its inhabitants who needed relief and this responsibility 

 applied even to inhabitants who lived in other towns \\ithin the 

 state. The term "inhabitants" was not used in its ordinary sense, 

 but was applied in a legal and technical sense to persons who had 

 gained a settlement. This law stated the following conditions upon 

 which persons could gain a settlement. 



I. An alien could gain a settlement in any one of three ways: 

 (1) by vote of the citizens of the town; (2) by consent of the select- 

 men; (3) by receiving an appointment to some public office. 



II. An inhabitant of any state in the United States outside of 

 Connecticut could gain a settlement in any one of these three ways 

 or (4) by owning real estate worth three hundred thirty-four dollars. 



III. An inhabitant of any town in Connecticut could gain a settle- 

 ment in any one of the three ways first mentioned or (4) by owning 

 real estate within the town worth one hundred dollars. 



1 New England Mag., vol. v, pp. 432, 433. 



2 Compt. report for Oct. 1805 is missing. 



3 Conn. Laws, Oct. 1789, pp. 383—385. 



