Excerpt from Register and Manual of the State of Connecticut, 1903: Prepared Pursuant to Section 320 of the General Statutes In 1871 the General Assembly appointed a commission to contract for and fully complete a Capitol building in Hartford, and appropriated five hundred thousand dollars, authorizing the city of Hartford to appropriate and issue bonds to the ex tent of one million dollars for the same purpose. The commission accepted the present site from the city of Hartford, and the plan of Mr. R. M. Upjohn of New York as a. Design for the building. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.