Download or read book Register and Manual of the State of Connecticut (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Register and Manual of the State of Connecticut 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 extent 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. In 1873 the plan was changed to a design for the present fireproof building, and one million dollars additional appropriated by the State. A new commission was also appointed. The General Assembly opened its first regular session in the building in January, 1879, but it was not fully completed until some months later. The entire cost, including heating and ventilating apparatus and such statuary as was placed at the time of erection, was $2,532,524.43, and the cost of the furniture was about one hundred thousand dollars more. The rooms used for offices and by committees are numbered from 1 to 80. The Senate Chamber and Representatives Hall on the second floor, and the State Library on the third floor are not numbered. The dimensions are as follows: Extreme length, two hundred ninety-five feet, eight inches. Width of central part, one hundred eighty-nine feet four inches; of wings, one hundred eleven feet, eight inches. Height from ground to top of roof, ninety-two feet, eight inches; to top of crowning figure, two hundred fifty-seven feet, two inches. 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.