CONNECTICUT. 



803 



On the first day of April, 1864, the banking cap- 

 ital of the State amounted to $20,60f>,%2 



Increase of capital the past year 817,688 



$20,924,650 



Decrease of capital by the change of twenty-three 

 banks 7 7,860,800 



Present capital $18,078,850 



This capital is distributed among forty-nine 

 banks, which hold deposits amounting to $5,- 

 297,802.49, specie amounting to $852,792.96, 

 or about eleven and five-eighths per cent, of 

 their circulation, and United States securities 

 to the amount of $6,881,417.63. Their circu- 

 lation is $7,305,024, and bills discounted during 

 the year ending April 1, 1865, amounted to 

 $15,273,001.21. The tax paid to the State by 

 the banks during the year was $32,257.69 ; 

 licenses and tax paid to the United States for 

 three quarters ending April 1, 1865, $174,- 

 125.10 ; proportioned tax for the quarter ending 

 July 1, 1865, $58,041.70 ; making the whole 

 amount of taxes $264,424.49. The aggregate 

 amount of deposits in' savings banks January 

 1, 1865, was $29,142,288.58; an increase of 

 $2,160,066.74. The market value of their as- 

 sets was $31,087,145.85, leaving a margin on 

 the amount due depositors of $1,944,857.27, a 

 fraction over six per cent. The number of de- 

 positors January 1st was 121,682, being an in- 

 crease during the year of 5,001. Total taxes 

 paid during the year amounted to $244,045.14, 

 of which $178,310.77 were paid to the State, 

 and $65,734.37 to the United States. 



From the Adjutant-General's report it ap- 

 pears that on April 1, 1865, the State had a 

 surplus of 6,089 in three years' men, without 

 reference to its quota on the call of December, 

 1864, for 300,000 men. There were enlisted 

 during the year, for organizations in the field, 

 2,898 men, and 3,849 substitutes for enrolled 

 men were furnished. Of the whole number of 

 substitutes, but 1,552 had reached the regiments 

 in the field up to the date of last reports, at 

 least one-half of those mustered into service 

 having deserted before reaching the front. 

 During the year ending April, 1865, 926 men 

 enlisted into the United States army and Vet- 

 eran Ecserve Corps, and were credited to the 

 State. The quotas assigned to Connecticut un- 

 der all calls except the last, amounted to 47,622. 

 The State having a large surplus when the call 

 of December, 1864, was made, was never called 

 upon to furnish a quota under that call. The 

 number of men actually furnished by her during 

 the war amounted to 54,468. Eeducing these 

 credits to the standard of three years, the State 

 account stands as follows, not including the 

 three months' men, who numbered 2,340 : 



Three years' men. 



5,602 nine months' men, equal to 1,400 



529 one year " 176 



25 two years' " " 16 



44,142 three years' " " 44,142 



26 four years' " " 84 



1,804 not known " " 1,804 



Total equivalent of three years' men... 47,572 



The enrolled militia of the State at the date 



of the last report nnmbered 41,565, of whom 

 1,485 were active militia. 



The following table exhibits the vital sta- 

 tistics of the State for the year ending Decem- 

 ber 31, 1864 : 



Number of births 9,784 



Loss from previous year 151 



Marriages 4,171 



Gain over previous year 1,869 



Deaths 9,109 



Gain on previous year 563 



Excess of births over deaths 657 



Notwithstanding the increase in the number 

 of deaths, there was no epidemic generally 

 prevalent, the percentage from zymotics being 

 less than for two years preceding. The follow- 

 ing have been the ten most fatal causes, in their 

 order: consumption, 1,171; pneumonia, 592; 

 diphtheria, 499 ; typhus and typhoid fevers, 

 442 ; old age, 405 ; scarlet fever, 322 ; dysen- 

 tery, 283 ; cholera infantum, 234 ; croup, 225. 



The Legislature adjourned on July 21st, after 

 the longest regular session ever held in the 

 State. Among the prominent bills passed were 

 those imposing a tax of four mills on the dollar, 

 reorganizing the militia, raising the salaries of 

 members of the Legislature, from $1.50 to $3.00 

 per diem, forbidding railroad companies to raise 

 the price of commutation tickets, and author- 

 izing the treasurer to issue two millions of dol- 

 lars more of State bonds at six per cent., which 

 should be free of taxation. The following reso- 

 lutions on national affairs were adopted at the 

 close of the session : 



GENERAL ASSEMBLY, May Session, A. D. 1S65. 

 Grateful to Almighty God who has brought the Amer- 

 ican people safely through the perils of civil war, 

 and has opened before them a prospect of peace, 

 prosperity, and power, the General Assembly of 

 Connecticut, considering the present condition of 

 public affairs, thinks fit to declare as follows : 

 The American people are a nation, and not a con- 

 federacy of nations. 



The States have certain constitutional rights which 

 ought to be preserved inviolable; but, as between 

 the Nation and the States, the Nation is sovereign 

 and the States are not. 



All men within the limits of the United States 

 ought to be absolutely free ; and no permanent dis- 

 crimination in rights and privileges ought to exist 

 between different classes of free men. 



Treason against a Republican government is the 

 greatest of crimes, and ought to be treated as such. 

 Nevertheless a humane and generous policy ought to 

 be exercised by the national Government toward the 

 misguided masses of the Southern people who were 

 not primarily responsible for the late rebellion. 



The public opinion of Europe, in reference to the 

 domestic affairs of this country, must henceforth be 

 of little value to the American people. 



The Government of the United States, in settling 

 upon its domestic policy, and especially in deciding 

 what course it will pursue toward the leaders of the 

 rebellion, ought not to be influenced by the wishes, 

 the advice, the warnings, the entreaties, or the pub- 

 lic opinion of foreign nations, but ought, on the con- 

 trary, to look with jealousy and suspicion upon all 

 attempts from such quarters to affect its action. 



The Government of the United States ought never 

 to recognize any government which has been imposed 

 upon any nation on this continent by the arms of any 

 European power. 



In its diplomacy, the Government of the United 

 States ought, while courte'ous, to be frank. It ought 



