Connecticut General Statutes Title 3. State Elective Officers § 3-45. Loans and appraisals

No loan shall be made from the School Fund or the Agricultural College Fund on a mortgage of real estate, unless the security is unencumbered and worth double the amount loaned, except that loans may be made on residential property in any case where the security is worth at least fifty per cent more than the amount loaned. No loan shall be made from said funds upon real estate security until after the security has been appraised by at least two qualified appraisers appointed by the Treasurer, one of whom shall be a resident of the town where such real estate is situated, and the Treasurer or his clerk has made a personal examination of the same. The appraisers shall take the oath hereinafter provided, and their appraisal, in the form prescribed by the Treasurer, shall be placed on file in his office. The Treasurer or his clerk shall certify upon every deed taken by him as security for any loan that he has made a personal examination and that in his opinion the same is worth at least double the amount loaned or, in the case of residential property, at least fifty per cent more than the amount loaned. Before entering upon the performance of their duties as appraisers, all persons selected to appraise real estate to be mortgaged to the state shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties.