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CONGRESS, U. S. 



CONNECTICUT. 



abling the people of Nevada, Colorado, and 

 Nebraska, to form a constitution and State 

 government ; amending the Homestead Law ; 

 also amending the act relating to the coinage 

 of cents ; regulating the admeasurement of 

 tonnage of ships and vessels; establishing a 

 postal money order system (see FINANCES) ; 

 providing a national currency secured by Uni- 

 ted States bonds ; providing for the instruction 

 of youths in the District of Columbia ; increas- 

 ing the duties on imports; providing for the 

 more speedy punishment of guerrillas ; to aid 

 the construction of a railroad and telegraph line 

 from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound, on the 

 Pacific coast; to encourage immigration ; joint 

 resolutions of thanks to the following persons 

 were passed, to wit : Gens. Grant, Banks, Burn- 

 side, Hooker, Meade, Howard, Capt. Rodgers of 

 the navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and to the vol- 

 unteer soldiers who had reenlisted. 



The measures adopted by the preceding Con- 

 gress, and during the first session of the pres- 

 ent one, that is, from July, 1861, to the ad- 

 journment in July, 1864, relative to slaves and 

 slavery, were as follows : Slaves used for mili- 

 tary purposes by the enemy were declared to 

 be free ; an additional article of war dismissed 

 from service all oflicers who should surrender 

 escaped fugitives coming within the lines of the 

 armies; three thousand slaves in the District 

 of Columbia were emancipated, and slavehold- 

 ing forbidden ; it was enacted that colored per- 

 sons in the District should be tried for the 

 same offences, in the same manner, and be sub- 

 ject to the same punishment as white persons, 

 and that such persons should not be excluded 

 as witnesses on account of color ; and that col- 

 ored schools should be provided, and the same 

 rate of appropriation made to them as to 

 schools for white children ; and that there 

 should be no exclusion from any railway car in 

 the District on account of color ; slavery was 

 forever prohibited in all territory of the United 

 States; a joint resolution was passed pledging 

 the faith of the nation to aid non-seceding 

 States to emancipate their slaves ; all slaves of 

 persons aiding the enemy, who should take ref- 

 uge within the lines of the army, were declared 

 free; it was enacted that no slave should be 

 surrendered to any claimant until such person 

 had made oath that he had not given aid and 

 comfort to the rebellion; the President was 

 authorized to receive into the military service 

 persons of African descent, and such person, 

 his mother, wife, and children, owing service 

 to any person giving aid to the rebellion, were 

 declared free ; the mutual right of search was 

 arranged within certain limits with Great Bri- 

 tain, in order to suppress the slave trade ; the 

 independence of Hayti and Liberia were recog- 

 nized, and diplomatic relations with them au- 

 thorized ; colored persons, free or slave, to be 

 enrolled and drafted the same as whites, the 

 former to have the same pay as the latter, and 

 the slave to be free ; all fugitive slave acts 

 were repealed ; the coastwise slave trade was 



declared illegal ; colored persons enabled to 

 testify in all the courts of the United States ; 

 colored persons were authorized to carry the 

 mails of the United States. Other measures 

 were introduced but failed to pass. 



CONNECTICUT. The Republican and Dem- 

 ocratic conventions of Connecticut met in Feb- 

 ruary, 1864, to nominate candidates for State 

 officers in the ensuing election. The Republi- 

 cans renominated for Goveror, William A 

 Buckingham ; for Lieutenant-Governor, Roger 

 Averill; for Secretary of State, J. Hammond 

 Trumbull ; for Treasurer, Gabriel W. Coite, 

 and for Comptroller, Leman "W. Cutler. The 

 Democratic candidates for the same offices 

 were Origen S. Seymour, Thomas H. Bond, 

 James H. Hoyt, Andrew L. Kidston, and Lloyd 

 E. Baldwin. The election took place on April 

 4th, and resulted in the election of the Republi- 

 can candidates, by majorities ranging from 5,658 

 to 5,810. The vote for Governor was: Buck- 

 ingham, 39,820 ; Seymour, 34,162 ; total vote, 

 73,982, being 5,949 less than at the election in 

 the previous year. The following was the result 

 of the election for members of the Legislature : 



Senate. House. 



Republicans 18 173 



Democrats 3 79 



Republican majority on joint ballot, 109. There 

 was no election in 1864 for members of Congress. 

 The Legislature convened at New Haven on 

 May 4th, when Governor Buckingham and 

 the other State officers elect were inaugurated. 

 The Governor's annual message to the Legisla- 

 ture was delivered at the same time. The re- 

 ceipts and disbursements of the State for the 

 year ending March 31st, 1864, were as follows: 

 Receipts. 



Balance in treasury, April 1, 1863 $106,170 04 



Dividends on bank stocks owned by the State 37,886 50 



Miscellaneous sources 9,548 91 



Taxes paid by agents of foreign insurance com- 

 panies..:..? f 3,52241 



Taxes paid on stocks owned by non-residents . 20,614 47 



Taxes paid by railroad corporations 77,230 53 



Taxes paid on cash capital of mutual insurance 



companies 15,938 25 



Taxes paid on deposits in savings banks 166,948 90 



Taxes paid by towns 529,224 36 



State bonds sold 8,000,000 00 



Premium and interest on State bonds 164,394 83 



Temporary loans 807,360 00 



Taxes paid by telegraph companies 796 61 



Forfeited bonds 5,337 21 



Avails of courts 2,821 21 



Total $4,947,59376 



D isbursements. 



Debenture and contingent expenses of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly $54,600 82 



Account of salaries . 24,25327 



Contingent expenses, including grants 79,197 59 



Judicial expenses, including grants 77,047 65 



Expense of supporting the State paupers 1,400 00 



Expense of superintending common schools.. 3,261 14 



Salary of the director of the State Prison 



Account of public buildings and institutions . 38,010 8 



Expense of families of volunteers 736,908 17 



Advances made to the quartermaster-general. 15,000 



Advances made to the paymaster-general 3,640,000 00 



$4,659,979 53 



Interest paid on temporary loans. . . $28,680 19 

 Interest paid on State bonds 209,160 00 



Total... $4,898,81972 



