The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-20
STATE DEBT LESS BY $3,661,862
 THAN YEAR AGO

in the report of Comptroller Morris c. Webster to Governor Marcus H. Holcomb for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1916. It. shows a re- duction in the debt of the state of $3,- 661, ,86235, the figures being: Net debt September 30, 1915, $11,920, ,002.- 54 September 30, 1916, $S,25S, ,140.19.
 It shows receipts for the latter year of $11, ,532, ,S06.94, as against receipts for the year before of $9,612, ,099.88, a gain of $1,92o7O7.O6. Then it shows expenditures of $8,443, 3,Oe5.10, as against s8,$54S,175-S5 in the earlier year. The comparative net gain for Connecticut's treasury is .$2, ,025, S17.81. Civil list funds show a balance in trea- sury on October 1. 1916, of 4,236,- 959.S1, as against $1,144,097.46 a year previous. The gain is $3,092,S62.S
 Receipts:
 Taxes paid to the state during the year ended September 30, 1916, az gregated $9,329,O73.2O. The balance from the year preceding, fees licenses, interest and miscellany, brought up the receipts to the $11,5s2,S0 The largest contributors to the state chest were as follows: State tax, $1,75O,- 974.17; net income from the corpora tion tax, $1,598,081.23; inheritance tax, $1 ,310, 0,763.74; railroads, $917, ,OS5,- 30; trolleys, s430,220.90; state stock insurance tax s616,9S5. The smallest contributor was the international banking companies, with $550.5O. The military tax was a bare $214,255.45, scarcely enough for the keep of a British battalion for seven months. Of the fees the largest gross came from the insurance commissioner and was $24O,307.81. The total receipts from fees were $42O,706.S4. The to! tai sum taken in from licenses was $1,242,613.79. Autos and their dri- vers paid more than the liquor men, because they paid $768,827.91, while liquor licenses produced only $439,- 50707. Then license fee receipts drop to the $30,63S paid in the game fund from the towns. The low mark was $100, from itinerant vendors.
 Receipts from interest came to $2O8,214.93, the largest contribution being the transfer of $115, 5,288.43 from the school fund. Next is figured the interest from civil list funds, s82,473,- 10. In0 SnallcSC IS AOO.JH, OA funds which institutions and cemmis-' sions, etc., hpld.
 Among tha miscellany the largest re- ceipt was from the highway depart ment and was $101,61O.36. Next the income from toll bridges is recorded and is 51,954.35.
 Disbursements.
 In scale of their size the largest disbursements were: Highway com missioner, $1,934,962.2O; common schools, $1,s2S,511.85; humane insti- tutions, s9S7,O41.57; judicial expen- ses $644,922.99; and interest on state bonds and temporary loans, $505,184.- 33.
 The expense for the Connecticut Ma tionaI Guard was $$42,519.36. It was some $128,OOO above the receipts from the militarp tax. The lowest classi- fled expense was the carrying charge of the state board of mediation and ar which was $21.25. Next to this item from the foot of the list was the expense for soldiers children SIP.
 State bonds redeemed during the year aggregated $64,O0O. The amount transferred to the sinking fund was $50O,000.
 State Paupers.
 Reporting about state paupers Comptroller Webster says:
 Applications for state aid have been slightly larger than last year, the applications being 1881 and the number of persons aided under the same about 5000; fourteen aliens have been deported by the Unit ed States at our suggestion, and war rants for deportation have been is sued for fifty-fve more, both individ- uals and families, the execution of which are delayed on account of the war conditions existing in Europe. There have been repatriated at the ex- pense of the state 156 persons, and 23O returned to other states from which they came. We have received $8,- B75.O3 on account of collections, and credits, the result of our investiga- tions, and the state has also been relieved of much more by direct pay ments to hospitals and other institu- tions by individuals resulting from such Investigations"