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CONNECTICUT. 



or special act: Provided, hoiccver, That no person 

 shall receive more than one pension for the same 

 period: And prondcd further, That rank in the 

 service shall not be considered in applications filed 

 under this act. 



" SEC. 3. That if any officer or enlisted man who 

 served ninety days or more in the army or navy 

 of the United States during the late war of the 

 rebellion, and who was honorably discharged has 

 died, or shall hereafter die, leaving a widow with- 

 out means of support other than. her daily labor, 

 and an actual net income not exceeding $250 per 

 year, or minor children under the age of sixteen 

 years, such widow shall, upon due proof of her 

 husband's death, without proving his death to be 

 the result of his army service, be placed on the 

 pension roll from the date of the application there- 

 for under this act, at the rate of $8 per month 

 during her widowhood, and shall also be paid $2 

 per month for each child of such officer or enlisted 

 man under sixteen years of age ; and in case of the 

 death or remarriage of the widow, leaving a child 

 or children of such officer or enlisted man under 

 the age of sixteen years, such pension shall be 

 paid such child or children until the age of 

 sixteen: Prodded, That in case a minor child 

 is insane, idiotic, or otherwise physically or 

 mentally helpless, the pension shall continue 

 during the life of said child, or during the 

 period of such disability; and this proviso shall 

 apply to all pensions heretofore granted or herafter 

 to be granted under this or any former statute; 

 and such pensions shall commence from the date 

 of application therefor after the passage of this act: 

 And provided further, That said widow shall have 

 married said soldier prior to the passage of the said 

 act of June 27, 1890/' 



Another general act of interest was that provid- 

 ing " for free homesteads for actual and bona fide 

 settlers, and reserving the public lands for that 

 purpose," approved May 17, 1900. The text of it 

 is as follows: 



" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives of the United States of America 

 in ('(ingress assembled, That all settlers under the 

 homestead laws of the United States upon the 

 agricultural public lands, which have already been 

 opened to settlement, acquired prior to the passage 

 of this act by treaty or agreement from the various 

 Indian tribes, who have resided or shall hereafter 

 reside upon the tract entered in good faith for the 

 period required by existing law, shall be entitled 

 to a patent for the land so entered upon the pay- 

 ment to the local land officers of the usual and 

 customary fees, and no other or further charge of 

 any kind whatsoever shall be required from such 

 settler to entitle him to a patent for the land cov- 

 ered by his entry: Provided, That the right to 

 commute any such entry and pay for said lands 

 in the option of any such settler and in the time 

 and at the prices now fixed by existing laws shall 

 remain in full force and effect: Provided, hoiccrcr, 

 That all sums of money so released which if not 

 released would belong to any Indian tribe shall 

 be paid to such Indian tribe by the United States, 

 ami that in the event that the proceeds of the 

 annual sales of the public lands shall not be suffi- 

 cient to meet the payments heretofore provided 

 for agricultural colleges and experimental stations 

 by an act of Congress, approved Aug. 30, 1890, for 

 the more complete endowment and support of the 

 colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic 

 arts, established under the provisions of an act of 

 Congress, approved July 2, 1862, such deficiency 

 Khali be paid by the United States: And provided 

 further, That no lands shall be herein included on 

 which the United States Government had made 



valuable improvements, or lands that have been 

 sold at public auction by said Government. 



" SEC. 2. That all acts or parts of acts incon- 

 sistent with the provisions of this act are hereby 

 repealed." 



The Senate passed a bill for the reorganization 

 of the army, on which the House failed to act; 

 and the House passed a bill for the restriction of 

 trusts, which the Senate failed to reach. 



Bills, in moderate number, for public buildings, 

 bridges, and right of way, were passed. 



The Appropriations. The appropriations 

 made by the Congress at its first session, for the 

 fiscal year 1900-1901, were as follows: Agriculture, 

 $4,023,500; army, $114,220.096; diplomatic, $1,- 

 771,109; District of Columbia, $7,576,869; fortifi- 

 cations, $7,383,628 ; Indian, $8,198,089 ; legislative, 

 $24,176,532; Military Academy, $653,590; navy, 

 $65,080,917; pension, $145,245,230; post office, 

 $113,648,239; river and harbor, $561,000; sundry 

 civil, $65,298,886; deficiencies, $15,679,512; miscel- 

 laneous, $3,500,000; total regular, $577,017,257; 

 permanent, $132,712,220; grand total, $709,729,477. 



CONNECTICUT, a New England State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Jan. 9, 1788; area, 4,900 square miles. The popu- 

 lation, according to each decennial 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; 746,258 in 1890; and 908,355 in 

 1900. Capital, Hartford. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1899: Governor, George E. Lounsbury; 

 Lieutenant Governor, Lyman A. Mills; Secretary 

 of State, Huber Clark; Treasurer, Charles S. Mer- 

 sick; Comptroller, Thompson S. Grant; Attorney- 

 General, Charles Phelps; Adjutant General, Louis 

 N. Van Keuren; Insurance Commissioner, Edwin 

 L. Scofield all Republicans; Factory Inspector, 

 George L. McLean; Building and Loan Commis- 

 sioner, George F. Kendall, succeeded in March b; 

 Edward E. Fuller; Dairy Commissioner, John 

 Noble; Commissioner on Domestic Animals, He 

 an O. Averill; State Auditors, Walter A. Rile 

 and D. Ward Northrop; Board of Arbitratio: 

 George A. Parsons, Franklin T. Ives, Gilbert 

 Smith; Railroad Commissioners, O. R. Fyl 

 Washington F. Willcox; Highway Commissione 

 James H. MacDonald; Bank Commissioner 

 Charles H. Noble, Sidney W. Crofut, resigned Ja 

 31, succeeded by George F. Kendall; Chief Justice 

 of the Supreme Court of Errors, Charles B. An 

 drews, Republican ; Associate Justices, David Tor 

 ranee and Frederic B. Hall, Republicans, anc 

 Simeon E. Baldwin and William Hamersley, Demo 

 crats; Clerk, George A. Conant. 



Population. The census returns give the popu 

 lation by counties as follow: 



The population of Hartford is 79.850; in 189') 

 it was 53.230: taken with the" cities and town? 

 connect od with it by the trolley system viz., Now 

 Britain, Manchester, Bristol, Vernon, East Hart- 

 ford, Glastonbnry, Windsor, Farmington, Berlin, 

 West Hartford, Wethersfield, South Windsor, 



