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CONNECTICUT. 



fees from executive secretary, $852.50; fees from 

 Sei-retarv of State, $2.113.34; Greenwich Loan, 

 Trust and Deposit Company (franchise tax), 

 $S53.2<): inheritance tax. $115.195.30; receipts of 

 Insurance Commissioner, $77,946.98; interest ac- 

 count. $34.5(50.53; tax on investments, $92,425.12; 

 itinerant venders' license fees, $75; tax on Meri- 

 drn Trust and Safe Deposit Company, $275; mili- 

 tary commutation tax, $150.598.84; miscellane- 

 ous* receipts, $17,544.88; tax on mutual fire insur- 

 ance companies, $11.030.38: tax on mutual life 

 insurance companies, $283.817.12; national aid to 

 State homes for disabled volunteer soldiers, $42,- 

 480; nonresident stock tax, $107,537.27; tax on 

 steam railroads, $905,502.92; tax on street rail- 

 roads. $138.502.78; tax on rolling-stock com- 

 panies. $159.20; salaries of Bank -Commissioners, 

 $0.515.05; salaries of Railroad Commissioners, 

 $11.023.08; salary of Building and Loan Com- 

 missioner, $1.080.01; savings banks' tax, $392,- 

 782.98; State Librarian (atlases sold), $100: tele- 

 graph and telephone company's tax, $14,026.05; 

 charter fees, $28.840; joint-stock capital tax, 

 $35.15: from forfeited bonds, $19,700.79; from 

 avails of courts. $10.150.34. 



K-rjH-nilitiircx. For payments from the treas- 

 ury from Oct. 1, 1898, to Sept. 30, 1899, for the 

 current expenses of the government, under the 

 following heads: Sessions of the General Assem- 

 bly, $148.355.08; salaries and expenses in execu- 

 tive offices, $38,417.23; judicial expenses, $339,- 

 424.55; board of prisoners in county jails, $112,- 

 082.02: State Capitol and grounds, $45,294.16; 

 contingent expenses, $17,399.32; State Board of 

 Kducation, $28,805.88; State normal schools, $68,- 

 747.97: common schools, $440,415.93; State Libra- 

 ry, $3,509.61; State Prison, $64,917.30; Connecti- 

 cut School for Boys, $68,195.10; Connecticut In- 

 dustrial School for Girls, $43,240.82; State pau- 

 pers. $1.301.20; humane institutions, $314,943.58; 

 sick and wounded soldiers, $75,246; deceased sol- 

 diers, $10,550.50: agricultural affairs, $48,767.14; 

 National Guard, $215,330.32; Governor's Guard, 

 $7,083.93; printing and circulating public docu- 

 ments, $43,973.92; soldiers' children, $2,734.36; 

 Fish and Game Commission, $5,452.20; Shellfish 

 Commission, $10,777.01; State Board of Health, 

 $7,307.50; Railroad Commissioners, $11,606.20; 

 Bank Commissioners, $6,041.55; Insurance Com- 

 missioner, $32,459.31; State Board of Charities, 

 $4.199.94; taxes refunded, $2,449.98; Pharmacy 

 Commission, $1,291.37; special commissions, 

 $8,454.20; Bureau of Labor Statistics, $7,213.41; 

 Inspector of Factories, $4,338.02; separating grade 

 crossings. $20,736.82; Connecticut River Bridge and 

 Highway District Commission, $16,179.61; county 

 health officers, $0.519.89; School Fund Commis- 

 sioner, $13.139.85; Highway Commissioner, $117,- 

 973.56; Building and Loan Commissioner, $2,- 

 S73.94; interest on State bonds, $104,700; inter- 

 est on Agricultural College fund, $115.75; interest 

 on town deposit fund, $274.54; principal of the 

 school fund. $1.081.74: interest of school fund, 

 $1.801.77; James Root prison fund, $141.81. 



Grand List. The grand list of the State, is- 

 sued from the Comptroller's office, for October, 

 1898. amounted to $552,887,702, an increase of 

 $18,422,505 from the amount of the preceding 

 year. Summarized by counties, the results are as 

 follow: Hartford, $131.759.101; New Haven, $162,- 

 '.'7.142: New London. $43,661.344; Fairfield, $130,- 

 235.714; Windham, $19,701,092; Litchfield $32- 

 249.129; Middlesex, $19,480,281; Tolland, $13^- 

 503.959. The amount given above ($552,887,762) 

 includes the total list of taxable property in each 

 town of the State as corrected by the Board of 

 K<i\ialization. 



The funded debt of the State is $3,240, 100. Of 

 this indebtedness, bonds to the amount of a mil- 

 lion and a half of dollars, bearing interest at the 

 rate of 3A per cent., are due Jan. 1, 1903. 



State Banks. The State banks have the same 

 capital as a year ago, and there is an increase of 

 $229,417 in their deposits. Their surplus and 

 profit and loss accounts are less by $15,595. 



In their annual report for the year ending Oct. 

 1, 1898, the Bank Commissioners made an excel- 

 lent showing for the savings banks of the State. 

 The assets have increased during the year from 

 $166,175,213 to $173,025,546, and, while the loans 

 on real estate have increased over $2,000,000, 

 those made on collateral and personal security 

 have only been decreased $868,000. Loans of this 

 class belong more especially to banks of dis- 

 count. The deposits aggregate $163,482,498.52, 

 an increase of $7,512,700.57 for the year. This 

 is $1,039,458.48 more than the increase in 1897. 

 The number of depositors increased from 366,- 

 661 to 375,810, and the average amount due each 

 depositor increased from $425.37 to $435.01. The 

 largest amount due a single depositor is $54,- 

 507.74. There are 271 depositors having more than 

 $10,000 each; 15,142 depositors having more than 

 $2,000 and not more than $10,000; 33,928 have 

 between $1,000 and $2,000; and 326,469 of the 

 total of 375,810 have less than $1,000 on deposit. 



With capital remaining the same, the trust 

 companies have an increase in deposits of $485,- 

 161, and an increase in the surplus and profit and 

 loss accounts of $49,744. 



Insurance. The domestic associations are the 

 same that were engaged in business at the close 

 of the last fiscal year. During the past year four 

 foreign associations withdrew from the State. 



The total assets of the domestic associations 

 on Sept. 30, 1898, were $3,637,828.12, an increase 

 over the preceding year of $383,892.93; foreign 

 associations, total assets, $4,313,015.36, an in- 

 crease of $472,020.72. The mortgage loans of 

 domestic associations increased $302,009.55 ; loans 

 on shares, $30,317.75; real estate, $41,457.30; 

 stocks, bonds, and other securities, $18,270.22; 

 and cash decreased, $13,177.22. The mortgage 

 loans of foreign associations increased $12,223.17; 

 loans on shares, $2,938.45; real estate, $351,681.37 ; 

 stocks, bonds, and other securities, $61,450; and 

 cash decreased, $53,324.63. The liabilities in in- 

 stallments paid and earnings credited of domestic 

 associations show an increase of $339,231.64. 



In 1898 19 fire insurance companies were ad- 

 mitted to this State, with a total capitalization 

 of $3,950,000. Ten fire insurance companies have 

 withdrawn from the State since Jan. 1, 1898. 

 Their total capitalization is $2,050,000. The num- 

 ber of companies doing business in this State 

 is 151. 



The total capitalization of 150 marine com- 

 panies is reported to be $54,913,875. Their assets 

 Dec. 31, 1897, were $275,886,642.42. 



Education. The public schools for the year 

 cost nearly $3,000,000. Of this amount, a little, 

 more than $2,000,000 was for running expenses 

 that is, for teachers' wages, fuel, and incidentals. 

 The whole cost was equal to a tax of 5J mills on 

 all the grand list of the State. 



The school fund amounts to $2,014,680.67. This 

 is a gain of more than $6,000 over two years ago. 

 Foreclosures of mortgages have resulted in small 

 losses, and sales of bank stocks in larger apparent 

 gains. The net earnings of the fund for the last 

 year were nearly $110,000, an income of about 

 5 per cent. 



The appeal of Yale University from the action 

 of the New Haven assessors in adding a consider- 



