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for Morris Tyler, and 47,263 for Julius Hotchkiss; 

 and do find that Moms Tyler, having a majority of 

 all the votes given as aforesaid, is duly elected Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor of this State for the year ensuing. 



That the whole number of votes actually and legal- 

 ly given and cast for Treasurer of the State is 94,890, 

 of which number 47,641 were given for David P. 

 Nichols, and 47,243 (including one for C. M. Pond, 

 and one for Chas. Pond) were given for Charles M. 

 Pond, and six were scattering ; and do find that 

 David P. Nichols, having a majority of all the votes 

 given as aforesaid, is duly elected Treasurer of this 

 State for the year ensuing. 



That the whole number of votes actually and legal- 

 ly given and cast for Secretary of State "was 94,861, 

 of which 47,580 (including the votes returned to the 

 State canvassers for Hiram Appelman and Hiram 

 Appleton) were given for Hiram Appelman. 



The committee find that the votes returned for 

 Hiram Appelman and Hiram Appleton were actually 

 given and cast for Hiram Appelman. 



And that 47,276 (including one for T. M. "Waller) 

 were actually given and cast for Thomas M. Waller, 

 and five were scattering; and do find that Hiram 

 Appelman, having a majority of all the votes cast as 

 aforesaid, is duly elected Secretary of this State for the 

 year ensuing. 



That the whole number of votes actually and legal- 

 ly given and cast for Comptroller of Public Accounts 

 was 94,891, of which 47,642 (including the votes re- 

 turned to the State canvassers for James W. Leon- 

 ard) were given for James W. Manning. 



The committee find that the 327 votes returned from 

 Suffield for James W. Leonard were actually given 

 and cast for James W. Manning. 



And that 47,249 were actually given and cast for 

 Seth S. Logan ; and that James W. Manning, having 

 a majority of all the votes cast as aforesaid, is duly 

 elected Comptroller of Public Accounts for the year 

 ensuing. 



Whereupon your committee recommend the pas- 

 sage of the accompanying resolutions. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



GEOKGE A. FAY, Chair'n on part of Senate. 

 AMOS S. TKEAT, Chair'n on part of House. 

 JOHN T. WAIT, 

 JAMES T. PRATT, 

 JOHN M. HALL, 

 GEORGE MAXWELL. 

 GENERAL ASSEMBLY, MAT SESSION", A. D. 1871. 



Rtsolved. That Marshall Jewell is, and he is here- 

 by declared to be. duly elected Governor of this State 

 for the year ensuing. 



The resolution offered by the committee, 

 "to declare Marshall Jewell legally elected 

 Governor of the State," was in the Assembly 

 adopted yeas 123, nays 100. Sixteen mem- 

 bers were absent, or did not vote. Resolu- 

 tions, declaring the Republican candidates for 

 the other State offices elected, were also sev- 

 erally passed. On these the Democratic rep- 

 resentatives abstained from voting. The re- 

 port was then accepted. 



In the Senate, eight Democratic Senators 

 objected to the whole proceeding, as being 

 out of the competence of the General Assem- 

 bly, and presented against it a written protest, 

 signed by all of them, and asked that "this 

 protest be entered upon the journal of the 

 Senate, and become a part of the records of 

 the General Assembly." The resolution, de- 

 claring Marshall Jewell elected Governor of 

 the State, was then passed; as were also the 

 several resolutions respecting the other State 

 officers, and the entire Republican ticket was 



declared elected. A debate ensued in refer- 

 ence to entering the above-mentioned protest 

 upon the journal ; which proposition was finally 

 put to vote, and lost yeas 9, nays 11. 



On the llth of May, Mr. Jewell was officially 

 informed of his election, and on the 16th he 

 entered upon the duties of his office. 



In his address to the Legislature, the Gov- 

 ernor represented the condition of married 

 women, as regards their property, to be un- 

 fair, and urged that body to enact such laws 

 as would secure to them perfect justice ; name- 

 ly, " that the laws should be so amended as to 

 make the rights of the wife to her property in 

 all respects equal to those of the husband in 

 his, and that the same interest be secured to 

 either survivor in the property of the other." 



He also warmly recommended a change in 

 the divorce laws, as being disreputable to the 

 State, and rendering the obtaining a divorce 

 less easy, saying : " They are notoriously loose, 

 more so than those of any other State except 

 Indiana and Illinois. Divorces may be granted 

 in this State for too many causes; in fact, for 

 almost no cause at all. Discontented and vi- 

 cious people come here from other States to 

 get divorces which the more strict legislation 

 of their own States denies, thus creating much 

 scandal, and tarnishing the fair fame of our 

 State. Some marked cases of this kind have 

 occurred the past year, which loudly call for a 

 reform in our laws." 



In behalf of the laboring classes he recom- 

 mended the passage of an act declaring the 

 earnings of any person exempt from attach- 

 ment for debt, to the extent of fifty dollars, or 

 one-twelfth part of his yearly earnings ; that 

 sum representing the average monthly wages 

 paid to workmen in Connecticut. "Such an 

 exemption," he said, "would, in many cases 

 of sick or unfortunate workmen, prevent great 

 distress to their families, and much annoyance 

 to their employers." In this connection he 

 suggested, for the security of laborers on new 

 railroads, that they "should be protected by 

 law against loss of wages consequent upon the 

 failure of contractors, or companies, either by 

 a lien upon the work done, or in some other 

 way." 



A law was enacted by the General Ass< 

 bly of 1867, exempting all railroad seeuriti* 

 of the State from taxation, the corporations 

 paying, instead of such tax, one per cent, on 

 all stock-bonded and floating debt into tho 

 Treasury of the State." This law having been 

 so construed as to include the exemption of 

 all railroad bonds, whether the road was 1< 

 cated in or out of the State, the Governor 

 sumed such not to have been the meaning 

 that bill, and suggested, at all events, " thf 

 an act be passed which shall be uniform in it 

 application, and not uncertain in its language. 

 The law now in force in the State, fixing 

 the legal rate of interest on money at six per 

 cent, per annum, was regarded as injurious to 

 the best interests of the State, as well as to 



