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houses). On January 1, 1917, the number of paupers in almshouses was 4,445, being 332 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institutions (June 30, 1919), 2,236. The cost of State paupers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, was 92,181 dollars.

Finance, Defence. — The total receipts and expenditure for the fiscal term of nine months ending June 30, 1920, were : —

Dollars Cash balance, July 1, 1919 .... 2,659,885

Revenue receipts, year ending June 30, 1920. 15,089,899

Total 17,749,784

Disbursements, July 1, 1919 to June 30, 1920. 19,266,233

Deficit, July 1, 1920 .... 1,516,449

The assessed value of property in 1919 was 1,661,293,466 dollars. The State on July 1, 1920, had a funded debt to the value of 14,291,100 dollars.

The National Guard is being reorganised ; at present it consists of 20 officers and 403 enlisted men. The Connecticut State Guard now consists of 3,000 officers and men.

Production and Industry.— In 1910, the State had 26,815 farms with a total area of 2,185,788 acres, of which 988,252 acres was improved land. Total value of all farm property in 1910 was 159,399,771 dollars. In 1920, besides other agricultural products, tobacco was produced to the amount of 36,112,000 pounds, the area under the crop having been 24,400 acres. On January 1, 1921, the State had 39,000 horses, 22,000 sheep, 78,000 pigs, 117,000 milch cows, and 80,000 other cattle.

The State has some mineral resources, producing iron ore, granite, trap- rock and limestone, clay products (bricks, tiles, pottery), crystalline quartz and infusorial earth are also worked in the State.

According to the census of manufactures of 1919 there were in Con- necticut 4,104 manufacturing establishments with an aggregate capital amounting to 620,194,000 dollars, employing 25,112 salaried officials and on the average 226,264 wage-earners. The cost of the raw material used annually was 288,511.000 dollars and the value of the output was 545,472,000 dollars.

In 1917 there were 1,003 miles of railroad track in Connecticut, besides 150 miles of electric street railway track (1919).

The total amount of deposits in 81 savings banks on October 1, 1919, was 391,532,270 dollars, and the depositors numbered 717,405 ; which is 54576 dollars to each depositor.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Executive Departments of the State.

The Register and Manual of Connecticut. Annual. Hartford.

Connecticut Colonial Records, 1686-1776. 15 vols.

Connecticut State Records, 1776-1780. 2 vols.

Andrew* (C. M.). The River Towns of Connecticut. Baltimore, 1889.

Bacon (K.M.), The Connecticut River. London and New York, 1906.

Clark (G. L.), A History of Connecticut, its Peoples and Institutions. New York and London, 1014.

Hollister ((}. H.), The History of Connecticut from the First Settlement of the Colony to the adoption of the present Constitution. 2 vols. New Haven, 1855

Johnston (A.), Connecticut. [In ' Amorican Commonwealths' Series.] Boston, Mass.

Loomis (Dwight)and Calhoun (.1. Gilbert), Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut, Boston, 1896.

Mead (N. P.)., Connecticut as a Corporate Colony. Lancaster, 1906.

Morgan (Forrest), Connecticut as a Colony and State. 4 vols. Hartford, (1904.

Purcell (R. J.). Connecticut in Transition. London, 1918.

Sanford (E. B.), A History of Connecticut, nartford, 1889.