The Budget Report of the State Board of Finance and Control to the General Assembly, Session of [1929-] 1937, Volume 4, Part 1

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Budget report for 1929/31 deals also with the operations of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928 and the estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1929.

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Page 51 - Let me live In my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — They are good, they are bad. they are weak, they are strong. Wise, foolish — so am I. Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live In a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.
Page 16 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a Government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the Government of Cuba.
Page 33 - Provided, That the aforesaid sums of money shall be expended, respectively, under the direction of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, and that they shall make to Congress each year detailed statements showing how the money herein appropriated has been expended and to whom...
Page 13 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, Till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land...
Page 26 - Thro' either babbling world of high and low; Whose life was work, whose language rife With rugged maxims hewn from life; Who never spoke against a foe; Whose eighty winters freeze with one rebuke All great self-seekers trampling on the right...
Page 32 - War is hereby authorized and directed to collect or copy and classify, with a view to publication, the scattered military records of the Revolutionary War, including all troops acting under State authority, and the Secretary of the Navy is hereby authorized and directed to collect or copy and classify, with a view to publication, the scattered naval records of the Revolutionary War.
Page 32 - In their bloom, And the names he loved to hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb.
Page 5 - If any town having no free public library shall establish a free public library and shall provide for the care, custody and distribution of books and for the future maintenance and increase of such library in a manner satisfactory to said library committee, said committee may expend for books to be selected by the said committee a sum not to exceed the amount expended by the said town for the establishment of such library and not to exceed two hundred dollars.
Page 10 - As gumption, adaptability, preparation and enthusiasm are essential to the success of any library staff, it is a pleasure for me at this time to express my appreciation of the work which has been accomplished through the interested co-operation of the several members of my staff, each one of whom it has been my privilege to select, having in mind the special lines of work to be accomplished. The following colleges and library schools are represented upon the staff : Yale, Wesleyan, Cornell, Smith,...
Page 18 - FAIRFIELD until 1683. Salem* — Incorporated May, 1819, from Colchester, Lyme, and Montville. In NEW LONDON and EAST HADDAM, partly in each, the part taken from Lyme being in NEW LONDON until July 9, 1841; the part taken from Montville being in NEW LONDON from June 3, 1824, until July 9, 1841 (previous to June 3, 1824, it had apparently been overlooked and not assigned to any probate district); the part taken from Colchester being in EAST HADDAM until May 29, 1832, then in COLCHESTER until July...

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