Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-19
STATE DEBT LESS THAN YEAR AGO
Comptroller Morris C. Webster An
 nounces Annual Report.


 A tale of thrift and able financial management is told by figures in sin gle s---, parallel columns in advance sheets of the repart of Comptroller Morris C. Webster to Governor Mar GUS H. Holconb for the fiscal year reduction in the debt of the state of $S.661. .s62.35, the figures being: Net debt September 30, 1915, $11,920,00 ,002.54; September 30, 1916, $S,25S,14e.l9.
 It shows receipts for the latter year of $11,532, ,sO6.94, as against receipts for the year before of s9,612,O99.SS a gain of s1,920,707 Then it shows expenditures of sS, 443,065.10, as against $s,54S,175.S in the earlier year. The comparative net gain for Connecticut's treasury is s2,o25,s17 Civil list funds show a balance in the treasury on Oct. 1. 1916. of $4,236,9 ,959.- S1, as against S1,144, ,097.A6 a year pre- vious. The gain is $3,092, ,S62.25.
 Receipts.
 Taxes paid to the state during the year ended September 30, 1916, ag- gregated $9, 29,073.20. The balance from the year preceding, fees licenses, interest and miscellany, brought up the receipts to the S11, 1,532, ,S06 94. The l largest contributors to the state chest | were as follows: State tax. $1,750,974.- l r.; net income from the corporation | tax, $1,59S, ,0S1.23; inheritance tax, s1,- | 10,76374; railroads, $917, 7,OS5.3O; troll l leys, S430, ,220.90: state stock insurance tax, s616.9S5. The smallest contribu- tor was the international banking companies, with $550.50. The military tax was a bare s214. .255.45, scarcely enough for the keep of a British bat t;llion for seven months.
 Of the fees the largest gross came | from the insurance commissioner and was $240,307S1 The total receipts l from fees were $420, ,7o6.s4. The total sum taken in from licenses was s1,- | PAP 61379. Autos and their drivers 1 paid more than the liquor men, because | they paid $76S, S,727.91 while liquor li- l censes produced only $439, ,5O7.07. Then l license fee receipts drop to the S30,63S l paid in the game fundsfrom the towns. | The low mark was $1o0, from itinerant | vendors.
 Receipts from interest came to s20S,- | 21493, the largest contribution being | the transfer of S115,2SS.43 from the l school fund. Next is figured the in | terest from civil list funds, $S2, 2,473.76. | The smallest is $3,2S6.92, on funds which institutions and commissions, | etc, hold,
 | receipt was from the highway depart ment and was "7"' "Fo 26. Next tha | n toll bridges is reported and is s51,s54.3o.
 Disbursements.
 In scale of their size the largest 1 disbursements were: Highway com missioner, $1,934,962.2 common schools, s1,o2S, ,511S5; humane institu- | tions, $9S7,041.57; judicial expenses, 1 S644 922.99, and interest on state | bonds and temporary loans, $505, ,1S4.53 l The expense for the Connecticut National guard was s342, ,519.36. It was some SIPS, 1000 above the receipts from | the military tax. The lowest classified expense was the carrying charge of l the state board of mediation and arbI- l tration, 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 s64,000. The amount | transferred to the sinking fund was | $500 900.