CONNECTICUT. 



sum of $100,000 was appropriated for buildings. 

 Towns and school districts having 10,000 or 

 more inhabitants were required to establish and 

 maintain evening schools for children over four- 

 teen years of age, and towns of fewer than 10,- 

 000 inhabitants were permitted to maintain such 

 schools if the inhabitants should so vote. Women 

 were authorized to vote at any meeting held for 

 choosing school officers or for any educational 

 -purpose. 



Cities and towns were authorized to establish 

 and maintain suitable plants for the manufacture 

 of gas and electricity. In the matter of taxation, 

 street railroads were subjected to the same law 

 as steam railroads. 



Claims of attorneys to the amount of $25,000 

 were recognized for services in the legal contest 

 over the State election of 1891, and the payment 

 of salaries to the claimants as well as to the in- 

 cumbents of certain of the State offices which 

 were in dispute after that election was author- 

 ized. 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



Establishing a commission for promotion of uni- 

 formity in State legislation. 



Giving manufacturers and throwsters of cotton, 

 woolen, and silk goods a lien thereon for labor and 

 materials used in manufacturing or throwing. 



.Requiring hotels to be equipped with fire escapes. 



Providing for the incorporation of Christian 

 churches. 



Providing for the inspection of steam boilers. 



Providing for the organization of districts for any 

 or all of the following purposes: To extinguish fires, 

 to sprinkle streets, to light streets, to plant and care 

 for shade and ornamental trees, to construct and 

 maintain sidewalks, crosswalks, drains, and sewers, to 

 appoint and employ watchmen or police officers. 



Forbidding the employment of any person under 

 sixteen years of age in running elevators. 



Authorizing actions to quiet title to real estate. 



To define and punish pool-selling. 



To preserve shade and ornamental trees along high- 

 wavs. 



To prohibit the killing or capturing of deer for ten 

 years from Oct. 1, 1893. 



Requiring all employers to furnish suitable seats 

 for women and girls in their employ. 



Authorizing corporations to issue preferred stock. 



Authorizing cities to establish funds for the benefit 

 of disabled policemen. 



Establishing a State Board of Dental Commission- 

 ers, requiring all new dental practitioners to obtain a 

 license from this board, and otherwise regulating the 

 practice of dentistry. 



Providing for the education of the blind. 



Regulating and restricting the practice of medicine, 

 surgery, and midwifery. 



To protect unions and associations of workingmen 

 in the use of their labels and trade-marks. 



To promote the establishment and improvement of 

 public libraries and school libraries. 



Revising the law governing the State militia. 



Requiring every schoolhpuse to be provided with 

 si United States flag at public expense, and requiring 

 suitable exercises to be held annually in each school 

 with reference to the adoption of the fiag. 



Providing for the appointment of a commissioner 

 on peach yellows, and 'prescribing his duties. 



Prohibiting pharmacists from selling intoxicating 

 liquors to be drunk on the premises. 



Establishing a standard measure for charcoal. 



Authorizing the organization of a naval battalion 

 in connection with the Connecticut National Guard. 



Enlarging the scope of investments by savings 

 banks. 



Providing that the infliction of the death penalty 



shall be carried out only in the State Prison at Weth- 

 ersfield, the warden, or, in case of his inability or ab- 

 scene, the deputy warden, to be the executioner. 



Providing that no electric, cable, or horse railroad 

 shall hereafter be conducted across the tracks of a 

 steam railroad at grade, except upon the application 

 to, and approval by, the railroad commissioners ; nor 

 shall any steam railroad cross any such electric, cable, 

 or horse railroad at grade, except upon like applica- 

 tion and approval. 



The political complexion of each House of the 

 General Assembly was as follows : Senate Re- 

 publicans 12, Democrats 12 ; House Republi- 

 cans 133, Democrats 118. 



Education. The following statistics from 

 the latest report of the State Board of Educa- 

 tion cover the school year 1890-'91 : Children of 

 school age, 161,241 ; enrolled in the public 

 schools, 128,905 ; increase over previous year, 

 2,400 ; average daily attendance, 84,304 ; increase, 

 648 ; average school year, 182'26 days ; number 

 of schoolhouses, 1,650; value of school property, 

 $6,655,054; male teachers in winter, 434, in 

 summer, 341 : female teachers in winter, 2,866, 

 in summer, 2,952 ; average monthly wages male 

 teachers, $77.11 ; average monthly wages female 

 teachers, $39.84. Sources of revenue : from 

 permanent funds, $164,531.38; from State taxes, 

 $241,861.50; from local taxes, $1,527,110.19; 

 from other sources, $75.880.51 ; total revenue, 

 $2,009,383.58. Expenditures for new buildings, 

 $307,830.92 ; for salaries of teachers and super- 

 intendents, $1,560,608.21 ; for libraries and ap- 

 paratus. $15.121.33; for miscellaneous expenses, 

 $283,518.72 ; total expenses, $2,167,079.18. 



Charities. At the State Insane Hospital 

 there were 1,377 patients on July 1, 1890 ; 788 

 were admitted during the ensuing two years, 

 and 659 were discharged, leaving 1,506 in con- 

 finement on July 1, 1892. The capacity of the 

 present buildings has been much exceeded, and 

 there are, besides, more than 200 insane persons 

 in the almshouses awaiting admission to the in- 

 stitution. 



At the School for Imbeciles there were 142 pu- 

 pils in attendance during the year ending Oct. 1, 

 1892, and the State expended for them the sum 

 of $12,749.72. 



State Prison. This institution, at Wethers- 

 field, contained 318 convicts on July 1, 1890; 

 and during the two years following 241 convicts 

 were received, and 262 discharged, leaving 297 

 remaining on July 1, 1892. The expenses dur- 

 ing this period were $86,515.08, and the income 

 from prison labor and other sources $71,552.01, 

 making the net cost of. the institution to the 

 State only $14.963.07. More than three fourths 

 of the income is derived from shoe shops con- 

 nected with the prison. 



At the State Reform School there were 434 

 boys on July 1, 1891 ; 216 were received during 

 the year ensuing, and 229 were discharged, leav- 

 ing 421 on July 1, 1892. The cost of the insti- 

 tution to the State for the year was $55,402.15. 

 The Industrial School for Girls contained 218 

 pupils on July 1, 1890 ; 327 were admitted and 

 308 were discharged during the two years follow- 

 ing, leaving 237 on July 1, 1892. 



Saving's Banks. The total number of de- 

 positors in all the savings banks in the State, 

 Oct. 1, 1892, was 331,061, the gain for the year 

 being 13,136. The deposits amounted to $130,- 



