OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. ii. 
into the State Treasury the sum of seven thousand one hundred and 
fifty-six dollars and twenty-four cents ($7,156.24). 
Seventy-one (71) applications are pending, waiting for deeds; 
ageregating three thousand five hundred ninety-three and three-tenths 
(359348,) acres. 
Fifteen (15) deeds await payment; covering an area of seven thous- 
and one hundred eight and one tenth (7108 1,) acres. 
Since June 1, 1881, the total number of applications received is 
five hundred and seventy-six (576), covering an area of eighty-eight 
thousand nine hundred sixty-four, and fifteeen one-hundredths 
(88, 964-1,5,) acres; of which area forty-five thousand and forty-five, 
and fifty-eight one-hundredths (45,045,58,) acres have been desig- 
nated; and they have netted to the State.the sum of forty-nine thou- 
sand five hundred and sixty dollars and three cents ($49,560.03). 
If to the foregoing designations, made by the Commissioners, you 
add the designations previously made by the towns, the total area 
designated in State jurisdiction will be found to be 79,018, acres, of 
which 14,066 acres are cultivated, and 64,952,% are uncultivated. 
The total number of taxpaying cultivators in 1882 was 216; in 
1883 it was 290; in 1884 it was 385, of whom 16 own each five acres 
and under; 53 own each between five acres and twenty acres; and 332 
own each twenty acres and more. 
STATE BOUNDARY. 
Applications have been made during the past year for designations 
of grounds at the extreme east end of the State, in close proximity to 
the territory of Rhode Island. It will be remembered that the Com- 
missioners’ line, off Groton and Stonington, extended from the 
south-eastern extremity of Groton, Long Point, five and four-tenths 
miles to Stonington or Windmill Point, and thence two and four- 
tenths miles to Pawcatuck Point, the eastern limit of the State. This 
line determines the north boundary of the grounds under the Com- 
missioners’ jurisdiction; while the division line between New York 
and Connecticut determines the south boundary under the Commis- 
sioners’ jurisdiction, as far as said division line extends eastward; but 
that is only to a point marked No. 3 on the United States Coast 
Survey map of Fisher’s Island Sound, —that is to say, so far as ‘‘said 
States (New York and Connecticut) are coterminous.” According 
to the Coast Survey map, this point is a little north of east from the 
extreme east end of Fisher’s Island, and about south-west from Watch 
