Excerpt from Message of His Excellency Lorrin A. Cooke, Governor of Connecticut, to the General Assembly: January Session, 1897 The State has paid, or to pay, Counties have paid, or to pay, Towns have paid, In 1895-96, 35 miles of improved road, cost per mile, In 1896, 42 miles of improved road, cost per mile, The state has paid the Commissioners for services and ex penses, including clerk hire. 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.