The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-10
GOVERNOR TAKES OVER LIBRARY IN
 NAME OF STATE
Hartford Building Which Cost $1 ,4o0, 600 Finished
 After Six Years


 the state library and supreme court building. costing approximately s1,- 400, 900 and which from the begin ming, a half dozen or more years ago, has been in the hands Of building commission, was turned over to the state library committees. the transfer for the building commission being made by former United States Sena- tor M- G. Bulk eley. the foreman, who spoke very briefly and handed to Gov ernor Simeon E. Baldwin certificate signed by the commission to the eff feet that the building Is now com pIete.
 The governor accepted it on behalf of the library committee and the state. The committee is composed of the governor. secretary of state and the William Hammersley.
 Gov Baldwin said in part:
 Nearly five years have elapsed since semb1y which gathered near this spot to lay the cornerstone of this splendid building. The special commission ap- pointed in 1907 to plan and to con- struct it, have fulfilled their office and fulfilled it well.
 Here, henceforth. will more and more be- the depository where men will come to study the beginnings of the constitutional history of the re- pubIics.
 OLD STATE PAPER
 During the past year the library committee have secured and added to our collections an original state paper sent by Gov Haynes to William Pyn- lcheon, of Agawam, by a special order of our general court in 1s39 How many commonwea1ths in the broad | world have archives that cover such stretch of time. In 1889, Charles I was king of England. Oliver Cron- W " a n man.
 .'It was a world of royal govern ments- Of the republics of antiquity, Switzerland and little San. Marine were the sole survivors rs-sIIrvivors only by virtue of their own insignifioance. 1 s1n 1889, Louis XIV had not yet be- gun his reign. That of Gustavus AdoIphus had closed only seven years before It was less than twenty-five years since Shakespeare and Lord Bacon had passed away
 Modern government in Europe had not begun and was not to begin until l the French revolution of the next I century had cleared the way. Mod ern government in America had be- gum; had begun here; had begun that fundamental orders by the represen- l tatives of the people of the Three Towns on the Great River lover the bench in our supreme q this town of the few men who made the first written constitution of civil government emanating from a social Icompaet- One Of the group-the first governor elected by the ancient com lmonweaIth-was John Haynes It falls to one of his descendants-the last governor elected by the common
 wea1th-now to accept in it's behalf this noble palace of Law and His tory.
 ENTRUSTED TO LIBRARIAN A.The act of the general assembly l under which this transfer is being made, although passed in 1911 was not to go into effect until the final certificates of the completion of the
 building were signed and filed. One of these has been filed in the office of the secretary; the other have now received in your presence; and thus the law of 1911 is at last brought into
 action in 1914.
 l s.By virtue of it's terms and action for the state library committee I here accept the transfer and commit the care under it's direction of the state
 library, Memorial Hall and the cham lbers of the supreme court of errors ihenceforth to the state librarian | At the conclusion of his address the governor handed the certificate to EIibrarian George s. Goddard, to be placed on file in the state archives. TREASURER'S REPORT
 Treasurer Charles c. Cook. of the
 building commission, subriaftteds his report which was duly audited and
 signed. It showed appropriations az
 gregating $1,f62, ,255.52 and interest
 amounting to $3.443.7O, the total re-
 eeipts being S1.665. 699.22. The ex-
 penditures were $1,655, ,6a3s04, Ieav-
 ing an unexpended balance of S1o, ;
 006-18 in the hands of the com mis- 1 sion. The expenses in detail were: l Capital $231 545. 54; library $1 ESQ., 1 587.46; land $136, 69; nnaintenanct $6,0O5.52; metal furniture $15,O0oi
 mural decorations $5.00o; landscape T S1.038.S3. BUNNELL'S CASE