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leaving a balance in the treasury, on April 1st, 

 1864, of $49,714.04. 



The funded debt of the State, in July, 18G4, 

 as stated by the finance committee of the Sen- 

 ate, was $6,000,000, and the unfunded debt 

 $2,400,000. The sinking fund for the reduc- 

 tion of the public debt amounted, in May, 

 1864, to $1.016,846.68. The estimates for the 

 civil and military expenses of the State for the 

 year ending March 31, 1865, were $2,750,000, 

 of which $2,000,000 was to be raised by the 

 issue of State Bonds, at 6 per cent, interest, 

 redeemable at the pleasure of the State after 

 ten years, and the remainder by taxation. 



The school fund on May 1, 1.864, amounted 

 to $2,049,426.77, the same as in the previous 

 year, and the income, including the balance on 

 hand in April 1, 1863, was "$164.559. The 

 number of children entitled to the benefit of 

 the income was 112,098, an increase of 1,607 

 over the previous year, and a dividend of one 

 dollar and twenty cents for each child was paid 

 therefrom, leaving a balance of $28,270.87, to 

 be carried to the next year's account. From 

 the report of the Superintendent of Common 

 Schools, it appears that' during the vear ending 

 March 31, 1864, 76,207 scholars attended 1,819 

 schools, taught by 2,037 teachers, at an expense 

 of more than $400,000, nine-tenths of which is 

 derived from the income of the school and 

 town deposit funds, and from the direct taxa- 

 tion of property. As a result of the war now 

 in" progress, the number of young men and 

 older boys in the higher classes was greatly 

 diminished, while the number of female teach- 

 ers materially increased. The State Eeform 

 School was reported in a flourishing condition 

 with 203 inmates, whose earnings in the me- 

 chanical department amounted to about $7,000 

 during the year. During the ten years that 

 the school has been in operation it has received 

 694 boys, some of whom have been rendered 

 useful members of society. The number of 

 convicts in the State Prison was 139, being 20 

 less than in the previous year ; and of State 

 Beneficiaries in the Retreat for the Insane, 126. 

 Sixty-one of this class of patients were ad- 

 mitted during the year, and 49 discharged, 38 

 of whom had recovered or improved. 



The railroad interest during the year was 

 benefited by a large increase in the number of 

 passengers and in the quantity of freight trans- 

 ported. The transportation of troops, govern- 

 ment freight, &c., caused an increase in the 

 gross earnings of the several roads over the 

 previous year, of $1,112,959.00 ; the total of 

 gross earnings being $4,786,250.70 against 

 $3,673,291.70 for the year ending March 31, 

 1863. The net earnings on a capital of $19,- 

 042,379.31, amounted to $1,694,730.18, being a 

 gain of $548,168.55 over the previous year, or 

 nearly 48 per cent.. Xearly a million more of 

 passengers were carried, and 19 per cent, more 

 of tons of freight. The total expenditure for 

 running the roads, exclusive of interest, was 

 $2,648,941.83; the total number of miles run 

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2,660,969, and of passengers carried, 3,789,583. 

 Thirty-eight passengers were killed, and seven 

 injured, by accidents during the year. The 

 number of banks of discount and deposit 

 amounts to 72, of which three were organized 

 during the year under the National Banking 

 Act. The total amount of capital is $20,606,- 

 962 ; circulation, $11,869,701 ; total liabilities, 

 $47,368,197.53; specie, $1,198,372.46; loans 

 and discounts, $28,569,876.48 ; total resources, 

 $47,368,197.53; deposits, $9,996,643.13; loans 

 to persons out of the State, $10,497,474. IS. 

 There were, on Jan. 1, 1864, forty-eight Savings 

 Banks in the State, which, the commissioners 

 say, "are managed with great prudence and 

 wisdom." The united deposits in these institu- 

 tions amount to $26,954,802.73, being an in- 

 crease during the year of $3,807,865.78 ; num- 

 ber of depositors, 116,681 against 103,728 the 

 year previous ; average amount of deposit for 

 each person, $231. The investments are as 

 follows: Loans on real estate, $12,850,258.83 ; 

 on stocks and bonds, $1,994,657.11 ; on personal 

 security, $1,306,026.13 ; on bank stock, $1,598,- 

 014; on railroad stocks and bonds, $868,715; 

 on United States securities, $6,481,530 ; on real 

 estate and other securities, $1,666,500.64. 



The quota of troops assigned to Connecticut 

 under every requisition made by the President 

 down to May 1, 1864, was 39,214, and the 

 number of men actually furnished to that date 

 was 42,789, including 1,474 drafted men who 

 paid commutation, and did not enter the ser- 

 vice. In his annual message, Gov. Bucking- 

 ham announced that the State then had a 

 credit of 3,172 men to apply toward any future 

 call for a service of three years ; also, that the 

 number of veteran volunteers who had rei?n- 

 listed amounted to 3,347. Two colored regi- 

 ments, the 29th and 30th, were organized 

 during the year. The disbursements by the 

 Paymaster-General of the State during the year 

 ending March 31, 1864, were as follows : 



To officers in the nine months' regiments, post 

 commanders, assistant surgeons and chap- 

 lains $47,01062 



To the State militia 21.000 25 



To volunteers for State bounties 3,493,380 00 



Making a total of $3,566,390 87 



For the purpose of providing State bounties for 

 troops who might be called for in future requi- 

 sitions, the Legislature passed a law similar in 

 its provisions to that enacted at the extra 

 Session of November 1863. 



At the extra Session of the Legislature in 

 1863, a resolution, embodying the following 

 amendment to the Constitution, was adopted 

 by the House of Representatives : 



Every elector of this State who shall be in the mil- 

 itary service of the United States, either as a drafted 

 person or volunteer during the present rebellion, 

 shall, when absent from this State because of such 

 service, have the same right to vote in any election 

 of State officers, representatives in Congress, and 

 electors of President and Vice-President of the United 

 States, as he would have if present, at the time ap- 

 pointed for such election, in the town in which he 

 resided at the time of his enlistment into such ser- 



