The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-20
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Valuable Information in Report of Receipts
Made to the Legislature.

Made to the Legislature.
In reply to the request of the legisla-
tive committee on appropriations, State
Treasurer Hodge has sent to Senator
Lee, chairman of the committee, de-
tailed statement of the receipts of the
state treasury for sixteen years, 1879 to
1894. The aggregate in each year prior
to 1870 was: 1879, $1,5S4, 2SS. AS; 1880. 1866
651 81; 1881, 81, 722 1901; 1882, $1,72O, 1882
1883, $1,617 10000; 1884, $1,545, 959.S7; 1885,
(seven months), SAP, 767. rs; 1886, $1,S13,-
FOL rs; 1887, 81 021 S19 26; 1888, 81, 9O1 27O 72
1889, 1923, S94.16
In 1890, the last year, a state tax was
levied, and each year since, the receipts
have been as follows: 1890, $2,261, 202. a.
of which 1854 557.65 was a state tax;
1891, $1,S43, 913.1; 1892, (ifteen months),
2,159, 2S925; 1898, 50. 29O, 1925; 1894, ST.
912, 1852
Treasurer Hodge says: The state tax
on towns" was at the rate of IL mills
on the dollar in 1879 1880, 1881, and at
the rate of IL mills in 1882, 1883 and
1884 AS the fiscal year was made to
end June S0th in 1885, in stead of Nov
ember Goth, as had been previously re-
CURED, no state tax appears that year.
In 1886 this tax was IL mills, but in 1887
was mills owing to large appropria-
lions for state prison and other objects.
In 1888 and 1889 it was IL mills and in
1890 this tax made its farewell at the
rate of l mill on the dollar. This tax
has been laid since then, but the treas
urer was authorized to suspend its col
lection and it has not been collected
since that year. The grand list of 1898
was $416,S23, 252 and a tax of l mill
would produce over $416,000.
Mutual life insurance companies paid
a tax of u of 1 percentum in 1879. 1880
and 1884, and 3-S of per centum in 1882,
and $40 of 1 percentum in 1888, while
since that date only Il of l per centum
has been imposed on them.
Amounts in various years of different
taxes have been delayed in collection
and thus the tax seems larger or small
Ter from such tax according to the year
of receipt.
The miscellaneous" receipts for 1898
are swollen by the sum of $261 9S1,90
which was the direct tax from the
United States government, and by the
further sum of $60,042.41 received from
Honorable Morgan G. Buckley being
certain moneys received and disbursed
by him while the deadlock was in exist
ence.
The collateral inheritance tax" was
amended in 1893 by exempting brothers
and sisters from its operations, and the
result is seen in a reduction of about
one-half in 1894 from this source, while
the results of the hard times are in evil
dence in the amounts received from the
investment tax" in the years 1893 and
1894
While not included in your inquiry, I
have thought perhaps you might wish to
know that in 1908 state bonds amounting
to $1,500,000 would become due and that
in 1910 another issue of LAO 900 would
mature, and that no provisions have
been made for the payment of either
issue. 1t would seem that both of these
issues might be paid at maturity with
out burdening the people with new
forms of taxation If strict economy in
making appropriations could be secured
until they were all paid, and thus an
annual saving of $1O4, 700 made in the
amount of interest paid on our bonded