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highways. Federal aid accounted for 13.4 percent of the income of 

 the highway department. It should be mentioned here that the state 

 legislature makes no appropriations for highways at its biennial ses- 



sions 



A classification of state highway expenditures, with amounts and 

 percentage distribution, is shown in Table 23. More than three-fourths 

 of the total expenditures was about equally divided between new con- 

 struction and regular maintenance. Federal aid construction was 

 unusually large in 1940. Money expended for "town road aid" amount- 

 ed to only 5.3 percent of the total. A quite insignificant amount, $55,- 

 334, was distributed to towns as aid for maintenance of Class V roads. 

 During the same year towns expended almost two million dollars for 

 maintenance of Class V highways, and over one-fourth as much more 

 as general expenses of their local highway departments. ^^ 



Table 23. Classification, Amount, and Percentage Distribution of the Ex- 

 penditures OF THE State Highway Department, Fiscal Year Ended 

 January 31, 1941 



Class of expenditure 



Amount 



Percent 

 of total 



Construction 

 Federal aid 

 Town road aid 

 State aid, II-A and II-B 

 Land and buildings 

 Trunk line 

 All other 



Subtotal 



Maintenance 

 State aid 

 Trunk line 

 Betterments 

 Class V roads 

 Land and buildings 

 Memorial bridge 



»' Subtotal 



All Other 



Operation 

 Debt service 

 Hurricane 

 State police 

 Other 



Subtotal 

 Grand total 



There are several different construction accounts which are con- 

 tributed to jomtly by the state and the towns (Table 24). In only 

 one of these accounts, that of improvement on the secondary orange, 

 did the towns contribute more than the state in 1940. On the state 



'^Annual report of the state tax commission, 1940. 



