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hibit the use of tobacco by minors under the age 

 of sixteen in the District of Columbia ; the bill 

 to amend the act for the forfeiture of railroad 

 land grants ; the bill to prevent book making 

 and pc-ol selling in the District of Columbia ; the 

 bill to provide for the erection of a prison for 

 the confinement of United States prisoners ; the 

 bill regulating junk dealers and pawnbrokers in 

 the District of Columbia ; the bill to provide for 

 the adjudication of claims arising out of Indian 

 depredations ; the bill to promote the construc- 

 tion of a safe deep-water harbor on the coast of 

 Texas ; the bill to provide for a United States 

 land court in the Territories ; the bill to prevent 

 counterfeiting and provide penalties therefor; 

 the bill for the construction of industrial-school 

 buildings for Indians in Wisconsin and other 

 States ; the bill to regulate the granting of leases 

 at Hot Springs, Arkansas ; the bill relating to 

 the treaty of reciprocity with the Hawaiian 

 Islands ; the bill to facilitate the collection of 

 commercial statistics ; the bill for the inspection 

 of vessels in the cattle trade. 



Public Buildings. Bills were passed pro- 

 viding for the construction of public buildings 

 at Portland, Ore. ; at Youngstown, Ohio ; at St. 

 Paul, Minn. : at Roanoke, Va. ; at Norfolk, Va. ; 

 at Fort Dodge, Iowa ; at Sioux City, Iowa ; at 

 Madison, Ind. ; at Pawtucket, R. I. ; at Sioux 

 Falls, S. D. ; at Mankato, Minn. ; at Saginaw, 

 Mich. ; at Taunton, Mass. ; at Stockton, Cal. ; at 

 Staunton, Va. ; at Kansas City, Mo. ; at Bea- 

 trice, Neb. ; at Lewiston, Me. ; at St. Albans, 

 Vt. : at Newburgh, N. Y. ; at Worcester, Mass. ; 

 at Clarksville, Tenn. ; at Rock Island, 111. ; at 

 Haverhill, Mass. ; at Racine, Wis. ; at New York 

 city ; at San Diego, Cal. : at Danville, 111. ; at 

 Philadelphia, Pa. ; at Camden, Ark. ; at Pueblo, 

 Col. ; at Savannah, Ga. ; at Bloomington, 111. ; at 

 South Bend, Ind.; at Plattsburgh, N. Y. ; at 

 Reidsville, N. C. ; at Rome, Ga. ; at Akron, Ohie ; 

 at Rockford, 111. ; at Fargo, N. D. ; at Daven- 

 port, Iowa ; at Portsmouth, Ohio ; at Richmond, 



CONNECTICUT, a New England State, one 

 of the original thirteen : ratified the national 

 Constitution Jan. 9, 1788; area, 4,990 square 

 miles. The population, according to each de- 

 cennial census, was 237,946 in 1790 ; 251,002 in 

 1800 ; 261,942 in 1810 ; 275,148 in 1820 ; 297,675 

 in 1830 ; 309,978 in 1840 ; 370,792 in 1850 ; 460,- 

 147 in 1860 ; 537,454 in 1870 ; 622,700 in 1880 ; 

 and 746,258 in 1890. Capitol. Hartford. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Morgan G. 

 Bulkeley, Republican, holding over after the ex- 

 piration of the term for which he was elected, 

 in consequence of the failure of the General As- 

 sembly to declare the result of the election of 

 November, 1890, at which his successor was cho- 

 sen ; Lieutenant-Governor, Samuel E. Merwin, 

 Republican ; Secretary of State, R. Jay Walsh, 

 Republican ; Treasurer, E. Stevens Henry, Re- 

 publican (the last-mentioned three officials held 

 over under the same tenure as the Governor) ; 

 Comptroller, Nicholas Staub, Democrat; Secre- 

 tary of the State Board of Education, Charles D. 

 Hine; Insurance Commissioner, Orsamus R. 

 Fyler ; Railroad Commissioners, George M. Wood- 

 ruff, William H. Haywood, William 0. Seymour ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles B. 



Andrews; Associate Justices, Elisha Carpenter, 

 Edward W. Seymour, and David Torrance. 

 There is one vacancy on the Supreme Bench, 

 caused by the failure of the General Assembly 

 to confirm the renomination byGov. Bulkeley of 

 Judge Dwight Loomis, whose term expired early 

 in the year. The terms of Insurance Commis- 

 sioner Fyler and Railroad Commissioner Sey- 

 mour expired on July 1. As the General As- 

 sembly refused to confirm the action of Gov. 

 Bulkeley in renominating them, the latter, on 

 July 1, issued an order reappointing them for a 

 period extending till sixty days after the meet- 

 ing of the next General Assembly. The Demo- 

 crats claim that these renominations are void, 

 on the ground that Gov. Bulkeley has no right 

 to exercise any of the prerogatives of the Gov- 

 ernor's office. 



Finances. For the fiscal year ending July 1, 

 1891, the State Treasurer makes the following 

 report : Balance in the treasury, July 1, 1890, 

 $897,674.26 ; total receipts for the year ensuing, 

 $1,843,913.71 ; total expenditures, $1,757,511.87; 

 balance on July 1, 1891, $984,076.10. The re- 

 ceipts were derived from the following sources : 

 Tax on mutual insurance companies, $247,048.18; 

 tax on stock of non-residents, $90,972.52 ; savings- 

 bank tax, $261,753.85; railroad tax, $817,516.76; 

 military commutation tax, $123,903.60 ; tax on 

 investments, $80,524.47 ; collateral inheritance 

 tax, $74,758.23 ; tax on telegraph companies, 

 $10,653.46 ; received from Commissioner of In- 

 surance, $51,654.52 ; interest on cash balances in 

 the treasury, $33,879.66 ; miscellaneous receipts, 

 $51,247.76. The one-mill tax on property, which 

 has heretofore been paid by the towns, and which 

 for the year ending June 30, 1890, amounted to 

 $354,557.65, was remitted this year by the State 

 Treasurer under authority conferred by a statute 

 of 1889. Notwithstanding this loss of revenue, 

 the receipts for the fiscal year exceeded the ex- 

 penditures by the sum of $86,401.84. 



The State debt was reduced during the year to 

 $3,440,200 by the redemption on Dec. 1 of bonds 

 of 1887 to the value of $100,000. An important 

 suit against the New York, New Haven, and 

 Hartford Railroad Company, which involved the 

 right of the State to collect a large amount of 

 taxes claimed to be due, and aggregating about 

 $100,000, was decided against the State during 

 the year. 



Legislative Session and Election Con- 

 test. The General Assembly convened at Hart- 

 ford on Jan. 7 for its regular biennial session. 

 Each House was divided politically as follows : 

 Senate Republicans 7, Democrats 17. House 

 Republicans 133, Democrats 119; the Repub- 

 licans having a majority of 4 on joint ballot. 

 The Senate was organized on the opening day 

 by the election of David M. Read, Democrat, as 

 P'resident pro tern., and the House by the election 

 of Allan W. Paige, Republican, as Speaker. On 

 the same day the returns of the November elec- 

 tion were laid before the House for its action, in 

 accordance with the Constitution. They were 

 referred to a joint committee on canvass of votes, 

 and then transmitted to the Senate. These re- 

 turns, on their face, indicated the election of the 

 Democratic candidates by the following major- 

 ities : Governor, Luzon B. Morris, 26 ; Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Joseph W. Alsop, 558 ; Secretary, John 



