Excerpt from First Report of the Board of Trustees of the General State Hospital for the Insane, of the State of Connecticut: Presented to the General Assembly, at Its Session in May, 1867 After several meetings and discussions, and hearing the claims and liberal propositions of other places, the Board formally and unanimously accepted a tract of land, of about one hundred and fifty acres, which the town of Middletown offered gratuitously to the State for the purposes of the Hos pita]. 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.