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just ijftooo "f taxation; and also to do nil in 



their power to iu-titute :i more, just system of 



representation iii the State." In order to pro- 



. local protective unions were 



formed liv workmen. After the election many 



! from employment ; ami it was 



1 that thi- di -charge was ft consequence 



of the rote which the workmen had given. 



At the quarries at Portland, largo number* of 



workmen, nearly one thousand, abandoned work 



in sympathy with those who had been di-- 



Tlie funded debt of the State, which was at 

 the beginning of the year $10,400,000, was re- 

 dueed at its close by $571.600; thus being on 

 Mare!. :M, 1867, $9,828,400. The amount of 

 the sinking fund at the same time was $1,284,- 

 :}i>7, and the cash on hand $499,115. The State 

 also owns bank stock, the market value of 

 which was at the close of the fiscal year $383,500. 



A State tax of three and a half mills on the 

 dollar realized during the year a revenue of 

 $1,015,045, and the receipts from other sources 

 amounted to $894,029. The expenditures of 

 the year were $1,806,993 ; of which $603,069 

 was paid in interest on the State debt, and 

 $645,600 in the purchase of State bonds. The 

 taxable property of the State increased in as- 

 sessed value over the previous year two hun- 

 dred and ninety millions of dollars. 



The sum paid from the school fund for the 

 benefit of the several school districts of the 

 State was $135,375. There remained a sur- 

 plus from the income of the fund of $15,715. 

 The number of children entitled to the benefit 

 of the fund was 120,824. 



On the war claims of the State against the 

 Federal Government, $6,750 was paid during 

 the fiscal year, and twenty thousand more will 

 be allowed. 



All the banks of the State have been organ- 

 ized under the national banking act, excepting 

 eight. Their capital was on April 1st, $1,950,- 

 500, and their circulation $111,747. The num- 

 ber of national banks in the State is 82. with 

 an aggregate capital of $24,496,600. The gain 

 in the amount of deposits in the savings banks 

 during the year was $3,861,376. The gross 

 amount of deposits in the.se banks was $31,180,- 

 390. 



The transportation of passengers over the 

 railroads in the State greatly increased during 

 the year, while the number of casualties was 

 quite small. 



Of the charitable institutions of the State, 

 the oldest is the Asylum for the education of 

 deaf mutes, which has been in operation tifty 

 years, and imparted instruction to seventeen 

 hundred pupils, of whom two hundred and 

 thirty were residents of the State. The num- 

 ber on the first of May was two hundred and 

 twenty-four, of whom forty-four belonged to 

 the State. In the Insane Asylum aid had been 

 given by the State to two hundred and thirty- 

 nine patients, of whom one hundred and two 

 were discharged during the year. Under the 

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.authority of the Legislature', a location In 

 M-lrctcd at Middletown for the c*tal. li- 

 ef a general hospital lor the iii-an.-of tin- Slat.. 

 and a suitable edifice for the accommodation of 



lundivd i- under construction. Th. 

 Reform School appear* to IK- an economical and 

 well-managed institution. The number of in- 

 mates was two hundred and sixty-four, which 

 is the full limit that institution can accommo- 

 date. The institution receives only boy, and it 

 is contemplated to provide another for young 

 vagrant and vicious girls. Other institutions 

 under the patronage of the State are the 

 Soldiers' Orphan Home. Fitch's Home for 

 Soldiers, and the State Hospital* at Hartford 

 and New Haven. 



The State Penitentiary maintains its past 

 reputation for discipline and efficiency. The 

 number of inmates on April 1st was two hun- 

 dred and seven, and the net gain of the earnings 

 of the prisoners over expenses was $1,078. 



The annual report of the State librarian gives 

 the whole number of births in the State, re- 

 ported during the year, as 11,623, an increase 

 of 1,421 over 1866, and 1,889 over the year 

 previous. In the county of New Haven the 

 number was the highest ever registered in any 

 year, and every county shows a gain over the 

 two preceding years. 



The natural increase of the population of the 

 State, or the increase of births over deaths, was 

 4,103, which is a greater one than in any year 

 since 1861. Of males there were born 6,047, 

 and of females 5,526 ; that is, there were 109.48 

 males born for every 100 females, or out of 

 every one hundred children born 52.25 were 

 males and 47.75 females. The ratio in 1865 

 was 109.31 to 100, and for the past twelve year#, 

 on an average, 108.96 males to 100 females. 

 There were born 2,714 in the first quarter of 

 the year, 2,842 in the second, 3,010 in the third, 

 and 3,031 in the fourth, showing a difference 

 of 485 in favor of the last six mouths of the 

 year. 



No less than 4,978 marriages were celebrated 

 during 1866, 518 more than in 1865, and 871 

 more than in 1864. But this increase is ex- 

 clusive of the counties of Middlesex and Tol- 

 land, neither of which comes up to the mark of 

 1865. No marriage took place in the town of 

 Prospect during the year, and but a single one 

 in Lisbon. Of the whole number of marriages, 

 2,958 were between native-born citizen?, 1,103 

 where both parties were of foreign birth, and 

 842 where one party was native and the other 

 foreign. 



There were 7,520 deaths, or 430 less than in 

 1865, and the least number reported since 1861. 

 There has, however, been an increase of 1!>") in 

 Hartford County, over those returned iu 1865, 

 163 of them being in the town of Hartford. Of 

 all the descendants, 8,679 were males, 8,738 fe- 

 males, and of 103 the sex was not reported 

 During the years 1862 to 1865 inclusiv. 

 number of males who died exceeded that <-t 

 the females, but in 1865 the female descendants 



