The Register and Manual of the State of Connecticut.

Issued an

nually since 1785, with slight variations in title. Report of the Committee on the Insane Poor in Connecticut to the General Assembly, May Session, 1838. New Haven, 1838.

Report of the Committee Relative to the Insane Poor of the State. May Session, 1839. Hartford, 1839.

Report of Directors of the Connecticut Retreat for the Insane. MDCCCXL. Hartford, 1840.

Report of the Committee for Locating a Site for a Hospital for Insane Poor. May Session, 1840. New Haven, 1840.

Report of the Select Joint Committee on the Insane Poor. General Assembly, May Session, 1841. Hartford, 1841.

Report of the Commissioners [Gov. Joseph Trumbull] for the Insane Blind, Deaf and Dumb, and for the Insane Poor, to the General Assembly, May, 1850. Document 8. New Haven, 1850.

Reports of the Commissioner [Gov. Seymour] for the Indigent Blind, Deaf and Dumb, and Insane Poor, to the General Assembly, May Session, 1851. Hartford, 1851.

Report [to Gov.

April 1, 1851.

Report of the Joint

Seymour] of the Superintendent of the Retreat. (Included in preceding report.)

Select Committee on State Reform School, with

a Bill in Form. New Haven, 1850, 1851.

Report of the Committee Appointed by the last General Assembly upon the Subject of Town and State Paupers. Document 6. New Haven, 1852.

Report of the Joint Select Committee on State Humane Institutions on so much of the Governor's Message as Relates to the Idiotic. Document 8. 1855.

Report of the Commissioner of the Fund for the Insane to the General Assembly, May Session, 1855. Hartford, 1855.

Report of the Commissioners on Idiocy to the General Assembly of Connecticut. May Session, 1856. New Haven, 1856.

Statement of Moneys Appropriated for Benevolent Purposes and Paid Out of the State Treasury, for the years ending 1853, 4, 5, 6, & 7. Legislative Documents (no. 20), 1857.

Report of the Joint Special Committee on the State Reform School, with Bill for a Public Act. Hartford, 1857.

Report of the Commissioners of Enquiry Respecting a State Industrial School for Connecticut. Presented to the General Assembly at the May Session, 1867. Hartford, 1867.

Report of Committee on Incurable Insane. Appointed, May Session, 1865. Hartford, 1867. (Presented 1866.)

Report of the Committee on Penal Treatment of Inebriates and

Vagrants, made to the General Assembly, May Session, 1875. Hartford, 1875.

Report of the Commission to Revise the Pauper Laws. Hartford, 1875. The Soldiers' Orphans' Home. Report of Committee on Humane Institutions. January Session, 1877.

Message of the Governor [Hubbard] and Report of the Commission on the Administration of State Charities and on Further Provision for Support of Insane Poor. Made to the General Assembly . . . January 26, 1877. Hartford, 1877.

Report of the Commission on Further Accommodations for the Insane Poor. January, 1879. Hartford, 1879.

Report of Committee on Further Accommodation for the Insane. Hartford, 1893.

Report of the Commission Appointed by the General Assembly of 1897 to Investigate the Necessity of Additional Accommodations for the Insane, etc. Hartford, 1899.

Report of the Committee to Inquire into all Matters Relating to State
Receipts and Expenditures. February 1, 1899. New Haven, 1899.
Reports of the Board of Education of the Blind, 1898, 1900.
Reports of the State Board of Charities. 1881-1902.

Reports of the Comptroller. 1850-1903.

Report of the President and Directors of the General Hospital Society to the General Assembly, May 1, 1850. New Haven, 1850. Report of the Superintendent of the School for Imbeciles at Lakeville, Conn. Hartford, 1861.

Reports of the Connecticut School for Imbeciles at Lakeville. 1862

1902.

Reports of the Board of Trustees of the General Hospital for the Insane of the State of Connecticut. 1867-1874.

Reports of Connecticut Hospital for the Insane. 1875-1902.

Reports of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls. 1870-1902.
Reports of Connecticut Prison Association, 1879 and 1904.
Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Officers of the Retreat for the
Insane, at Hartford, Conn. April, 1851. Hartford, 1851.

Report of the Soldiers' Hospital Board to the Comptroller. Hartford, 1889. (For the fiscal year 1888.)

Report of the Directors and Superintendent of the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphan Home for the year ending March 31, 1872. Hartford, 1872.

Reports of the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home. Hartford, 1873, 1874, 1875.

Reports of Trustees of the Connecticut State Reform School. 1853

1893

Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut School for Boys. 1894-1902.

Fourth Annual Report of the Officers and Superintendent of the Asylum at Walnut Hill, Hartford. Hartford, 1878.

[Most of the reports here given are found in the bound volumes of messages and reports issued annually under a varying title. Those cited are the ones of greatest value to this study, but the list is not exhaustive.]

Report of the Special Committee on Outdoor Alms of the Town of Hartford, A. D. 1891. Hartford, 1891.

Acts and Resolves of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Vol. i. 1692-1714. Boston, 1869.

The New England States. William T. Davis, editor. Boston, 1897. Connecticut. A Study of a Commonwealth-Democracy. Alexander Johnston. American Commonwealth Series. Boston and New York, 1898.

History of New England, During the Stuart Dynasty. John Gorham Palfrey. 3 vols. Boston, 1865.

The Memorial History of Hartford County, 1633-1884. J. H. Trumbull, editor. 2 vols. Boston, 1886.

Memorial History of Boston. Justin Winsor. 4 vols. Boston, 1881.

INDEX TO DECISIONS CITED

I. BY TITLES

...

Anderson v. State (1876, 43 Conn., 514).....
Backus v. Dudley et al. (1821, 3 Conn., 568)..
Baker v. Potter et al. (1883, 51 Conn., 78)..
Barkhamsted v. Farmington (1818, 2 Conn., 600).
Barkhamsted v. Parsons (1819, 3 Conn., I).......
Beacon Falls v. Seymour (1875, 43 Conn., 217)..
Beacon Falls v. Seymour (1876, 44 Conn., 210)...
Beacon Falls v. Seymour (1878, 46 Conn., 281).
Benedict v. Roberts (1797, 2 Root, 496)..........
Bennet v. Canterbury (1854, 23 Coun., 356).
Bennet v. Hall (1815, 1 Conn., 417).
Benton v. Starr (1890, 58 Conn., 285)....
Bethany v. Oxford (1843, 15 Conn., 550)....
Bethlehem v. Watertown (1879, 47 Conn., 237).
Bethlem v. Watertown (1883, 51 Conn., 490).
Bethlehem v. Roxbury (1850, 20 Conn., 298).
Bolton v. Haddam (1797, 2 Root, 517)....
Booth v. Hart (1876, 43 Conn., 480).......
Bozrah v. Stonington (1822, 4 Conn., 373).
Bridgeport v. Trumbull (1871, 37 Conn., 484).
Bridgewater v. Roxbury (1886, 54 Conn., 213).
Bristol v. New Britain (1898, 71 Conn., 201).
Brown v. Eggleston et al. (1885, 53 Conn., 110).
Burden v. Skinner (1808, 3 Day, 126).....
Camp v. Carroll (1900, 73 Conn., 247)..
Campbel v. Crandal (1796, 2 Root, 371)..
Canaan v. Salisbury (1790, 1 Root, 155).
Canton v. Burlington (1890, 58 Conn., 277).
Canton v. Burlington (1892, 61 Conn., 589)..
Canton v. Simsbury (1886, 54 Conn., 86).
Chalker v. Chalker (1814, 1 Conn., 79).
Chaplin v. Hartshorne (1825, 6 Conn., 41).
473]

372

.113, 143, 145

290

102

109

281

.327, 329

329

132

243

132

315

179

331

175, 326, 327, 329

179, 180

115

315

114

177, 212

331

330

302

169

314

121

115

328

.178, 328

282

123

.130, 131

473

Cheesborough v. Baldwin (1790, 1 Root, 229)..
Cheshire v. Burlington (1863, 31 Conn., 326).
Clark v. Whitaker et al. (1847, 18 Conn., 543)
Clement v. Wheeler (1796, 2 Root, 466)....
Cleveland's Appeal (1899, 72 Conn., 340).
Clinton v. Haddam (1882, 50 Conn., 84).
Clinton v. Westbrook (1871, 38 Conn., 9)..
Colchester v. East Lyme (1847, 18 Conn., 480)....
Colchester v. Lyme (1839, 13 Conn., 274)..
Columbia v. Williams et al. (1820, 3 Conn., 467).

Comstock v. Weed (1817, 2 Conn., 155)....

Condon et al. v. Pomroy-Grace (1901, 73 Conn., 607).

.129, 132

178

198

168

299

328

.177, 178

179

180

144

.131, 132

286

Connecticut Hospital for the Insane v. Brookfield (1897, 69 Conn., 1). 373

Cook v. Bradley (1828, 7 Conn., 57)......

..116, 117

Cook v. Morris (1895, 66 Conn., 137).

328

Culver's Appeal (1880, 48 Conn., 165).
Cunningham v. Cunningham (1902, 75 Conn., 64).
Danbury v. New Haven (1825, 5 Conn., 584).
Davis v. Salisbury (1804, 1 Day, 278).
Dickinson's Appeal (1875, 42 Conn., 491)...
Dunn's Appeal (1868, 35 Conn., 82)...

East Hartford v. Middletown (1790, 1 Root, 196).
East Hartford v. Pitkin et al. (1831, 8 Conn., 393).
Eastman v. Chapman (1802, 1 Day, 30).....
Enfield v. Ellington (1896, 67 Conn., 459)
Fairfield v. Easton (1901, 73 Conn., 735).
Fairfield v. Newtown (1903, 75 Conn., 515)...
Fay v. Reynolds (1891, 60 Conn, 217)................
Fenn v. Bancroft et al. (1881, 49 Conn., 216).

301

287

First National Bank v. Balcom (1868, 35 Conn., 351).
Fish v. Perkins (1884, 52 Conn., 200).

Griswold v. North Stonington (1824, 5 Conn., 367)
Guilford v. New Haven (1888, 56 Conn., 465).

.98, 146

282