New Britain herald., 1922-02-22
STATE IS ID HAVE
 SI,250,0O0 IN 1922
Cuts in Taxes ASsured-- --BisSell'S
 Accounts Show Drop in Outeo

Hartford, Feb, 22,-F Forty depart ments of the state government came through the first quarter of the new Dscal year with q net saving of $342,- 2S2 on maintenance appropriations voted them by the last session of the legislature, it was shown by figures on record. by Comptroller Harvey P, I'issell. Expenditures aggregated si,- Ss2.loa, which was about so per cent of the amount figured to be available for these departments for three months in proportion to the whole two-yea- budget period ending June 30, 1923.
 balance of approximately S2,b0o.- GOO will be assured from the l?22-23 budget of sa6,o2o,so2 when the next session of tho legislature undertakes to make appropriations for the fol. lowing two years, if the rate now established Is maintained through out the two fiscal years, Ii is expect ed, however that the decreased costs which were mostly responsible for the 20 per cent saving in the first three months will be further decreased to the end that tho net saving for the entire two years will exceed s25oo,- GOO. This is in contrast to deficiencies aggregating over $2,ooo,ooo which confronted the legislature when it convened last year.
 The figures cited above do not take into account the appropriations of the state and other items not in cluded for various reasons.
 New Accounting System.
 Under the uniform system of &C., counting established by Comptroller Rissell, the two-year budget period has been divided into eight quarter year sections For each quarter, the various departments are equipped to report to the comptroller's office on their expenditures. By this method. the comptroller's office is able to tell as the year passes whether the state is keeping within it's income or is running behind. Under the old system. the departments were not required to report their expenditures to the comptroller's office for a given per- iod Consequently. the board of con- troll except for what assistance it could get from the state board of fi- nance in matter, was not always aware of the extent of deficiencies created by it's votes.
 Tho Savings Made.
 Different departments spent the following amounts less than the pro- portionate amount of their appropra- tions for the first three months. Adjutant general (seven accounts), S3,61S department of state agencies and institutions (widows' aid divi- sion), s31,345; hospital division. $4,- $40; state board of agriculture, three accounts. $S21; agricultural experl- ment station, three accounts, $2,255; banking, four accounts, $e,S5o; school for boys, maintenance, $15,643; comp troller, two accounts $S,910; dairy and food, four accounts, $2,6oo; domestic animals seven accounts, $29,477; board of education, eighteen accounts, $75,63S; factory inspection, two accounts, $2,5So; forester and ire warden. two accounts, s1.553; hsh and game, five accounts. $2,444' health, nine accounts. s6,94S; high way four account, $7,32o; Insurance, four accounts, 32,597; labor four ac- counts, $1,72o; state library seven teen accounts, $3,211; motor vehicle, six general divisions. $624; three gasoline divisions of motor vehicle department, $2,O35; Mystic Oral School for the Deaf, $4,739; Norwich Stat hospital, .14,o55; state police nine accounts, $9,92S; state prlson' four accounts, $16,77e; public wei fare. adult division, $6oe; Connectl. cut Reformatory, s12,s5s; teachers retirement fund. office, $741; tax com- missioner, two general accounts s3,413; tuberculosis commission maintenance, $To,44o; State Farm TOT Women, maintenance, $o,ll9' Co"- ,,o,t;cuf state hOSDlttal, $l0, ,tol.