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have been found to be of great benefit to coun- 

 try districts, as well as to cities, as they pro- 

 vide a very convenient mode of access to cities by 

 the country people. 



The procedure for obtaining the construction 

 of a side -path is not at all complicated, and an 

 application to the local county judge or the pres- 

 ident of the local wheelmen's association, will 

 usually result in an investigation, and, if a favor- 

 able report is made, in the construction of the 

 desired side -path. Attention is simply called to 

 the very general existence of these laws, and the 

 procedure is left for the local attorney or wheel- 

 men. 



V. WATERING -TROUGHS AND SHADE TREES 



In some states the establishment of watering- 

 troughs is obligatory upon highway authorities. 

 In New York the policy has been to encourage 

 their establishment, as well as the planting of 

 shade trees. With this in view, it is the law 

 that any person maintaining a watering- trough, 

 with the approval of the highway commissioner, 

 shall be allowed a rebate equivalent to three days' 

 road tax per year. Any person planting shade 

 trees, under like approval, is allowed, at the end 

 of the first year, twenty-five cents upon his road 

 tax for each living tree so planted. These trees 

 may be planted seventy feet apart if elms. They 



