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that any attempt to lower the standard of money, to 

 increase the volume of irredeemable paper currency, 

 to make the money of the people unstable, or to de- 

 teriorate the coin, is simply repudiation; and_we 

 declare that a reissue of legal-tender paper in a time 

 of profound peace would be without excuse and a 



ross violation of the Constitution of the United 

 tates ; and therefore we demand actual resumption 

 of specie payments at the time fixed by law, and that 

 Congress shall do no act to delay it, but shall leave 

 the country free in its reviving prosperity. 



Fourth. That the interests of capital and labor are 

 so linked together that all action hostile to one must 

 be injurious to the other, and we condemn all at- 

 tempts to array one against the other, and to estab- 

 lish enmities and prejudices between employee and 

 employer. 



Fifth. We demand the most rigid economy, not 

 only from the State and national governments, but 

 from all lesser communities. 



Sixth. We condemn as unworthy of an enlightened 

 people a niggardly appropriation of the public money 

 for the just and proper expenses of the Government, 

 especially in dealing with the army and its officers, 

 whose life-long services are devoted to the defense 

 of the country from foreign foes, Indian depredations, 

 and domestic insurrection. 



Seventh. That we demand full protection for all 

 citizens in every part of the United States in the 

 free exercise of civil arid political rights ; that we 

 insist that there shall be no subsidies, grants, or 

 loans of money or lands to private corporations, no 

 payment, directly or indirectly, of what are called 

 rebel claims, and that the legitimate expenses of gov- 

 ernment shall be met by adequate appropriations. 



Eighth. That we believe in the integrity and pa- 

 triotism of President Hayes, and we will give him 

 our cordial support in all his constitutional efforts to 

 secure an honest and efficient public service and to 

 maintain the financial honor of the nation. 



Ninth. That the title of President Hayes having 

 been settled by a commission of both political parties 

 acting in the best interests of the country, we charge 

 that the attacks of the Democratic party upon him, 

 and their attempt to reopen the question of his title, 

 are seditious and dangerous to the public peace and 

 prosperity, and have for their object not the welfare 

 of the whole country ,but the advancement of a faction. 



At the general election of November 5, 

 1878, the people's vote in Connecticut failed to 

 elect the Governor and the other State officers. 

 In accordance with the State Constitution, 

 they were elected by the Legislature in joint 

 convention on January 9th, the result being 

 the choice of the Eepublican candidates. On 

 the same day the Governor elect was formally 

 installed in office. 



The income and expenditure during the past 

 year were as follows : 



Balance in the Treasury, December 1, 1877. . . $732.414 83 



Keceipts last year, from all sources 1,652,570 81 



Total $2,384,984 64 



Expenditures for the year, on all accounts, in- 

 cluding *9,000 of State bonds redeemed 1.F42.612 53 



Balance in the Treasury, December 1, 1878. . . $822,872 11 



This balance included about $600,000 of 

 taxes paid into the Treasury in November, 

 1878. The excess of receipts over expendi- 

 tures during the year was $109,957.78. The 

 estimated receipts for the year 1878-'79 are 

 set down at $1,554,200, and the estimated ex- 

 penditures at $1,530,846. The State debt, on 

 December 1, 1878, was represented in four 

 classes of bonds, as follows: 



January 1, 1868, redeemable January 1, 1883, bear- 

 ing interest at 6 per cent $877,000 



January 1, 1864, redeemable January 1, 1884, at 6 

 percent 1,318,550 



October 1, 1865, redeemable October 1, 1885, at 6 

 per cent 1,741,100 



May 1,1877, redeemable on option after May 1, 

 1&S7, at 5 per cent 1,031,OCO 



Total $4,967,650 



The aggregate amount of the grand list, ex- 

 hibiting the value of the taxable property in 

 the State, fell off last year by more than 

 $9,000,000. 



There are sixty-six savings banks in Con- 

 necticut, four of which are under temporary 

 injunction, and one is being permanently 

 closed up. The sum total of their assets on 

 the first day of October, 1878, was $76,024,- 

 606.40, which is $4,250,000 less than at the 

 same date in the previous year. There are ten 

 trust companies in the State, eight of which 

 receive deposits and attend to general banking 

 transactions. All of them are stated to be iu 

 a sound financial condition. Four banks of 

 discount continue doing business in Connecti- 

 cut under the laws of the State. Their ag- 

 gregate outstanding circulation is reckoned at 

 $19,532. 



The education of the youth in the State ap- 

 pears to progress satisfactorily. The number 

 of her public schools at the close of the last 

 school year was 1,647; the yearly average of 

 school sessions was 178 days. The whole 

 number of children between four and sixteen 

 years of age in the State is 138,407, of whom 

 119,803 attended public schools during the 

 year, and 11,121 other schools. The percen- 

 tage of children in schools of all kinds for the 

 year was 94.76. The aggregate amount of 

 school revenue, from school fund, State, town, 

 and district taxes, and other sources, was $],- 

 509,158.85. The total expenditure for school 

 purposes was $1,506,477.06. In the Connecti- 

 cut School for Imbeciles at Lakeville there were 

 85 inmates, of whom 42 were State beneficia- 

 ries. Out of the $7,000 annually appropriated 

 for their support, the sum of $5,500 was ex- 

 pended during the year. The Governor avers 

 that " this school is under superior management, 

 is doing excellent work, and deserves well of 

 the State." The inmates of the State Keform 

 School for Boys at Meriden are at present 

 267; their average number for the year was 

 250. The Industrial School for Girls at Mid- 

 dletown continues in successful operation. Its 

 inmates are 130 ; the number of girls admitted 

 since its organization in 1870 is 335. Of those 

 dismissed, 31 have found homes or gone to 

 friends out of Connecticut ; and 46 have been 

 placed out in families within the State, yet re- 

 maining wards of the school. The State Asy- 

 lum for the Insane at Middletown continues, 

 as for several years, crowded to its utmost 

 capacity, with a large number of applications 

 made to it for admission of new patients that 

 must be refused. At present there are above 

 75 such applications entered in the books of 





