PUBLIC EOAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES, 1914. 3 



to the respective State collaborators or to the heads of the State 

 highway departments, who thereupon prepared a text explanatory 

 of the statistical tables and of the administrative systems in effect 

 in their respective States, or approved a text prepared in this oflS.ce. 



ROAD ADMINISTRATION IN THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 



All of the Middle Atlantic States have highway departments and 

 apply State funds to the aid of road improvement. This policy was 

 inaugurated in New Jersey in 1892, m New York in 1898, and in 

 Pennsylvania in 1903. In New York and Pennsylvania the construc- 

 tion and maintenance of aU roads is in a measure under State control. 

 New York has developed a rather highly centrahzed highway depart- 

 ment, and, hke Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has a comprehensive 

 system of State highways, for the construction and mamtenance of 

 which State funds are appropriated. 



PUBLIC ROAD REVENUES. 



State road funds in New York were at first provided by direct appro- 

 priations and at the begmning of 1906 amounted to $25,000,000. 

 During that year, a $50,000,000 State bond issue was authorized, 

 and a second issue of $50,000,000 m 1912. Of the total bonds au- 

 thorized, $65,000,000 were issued on authority of the legislature to 

 the close of the year 1914. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania State 

 fmids are provided by direct appropriations from the State treasury. 

 Aside from the State-aid funds a considerable portion of the revenues 

 for roads is provided by taxes, levied by the towns in New York State, 

 by counties and townships in New Jersey, and by townships in Penn- 

 sylvania. Approximately one-third of aU expenditures are provided 

 by local units in New York and about one-half in New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania. 



Table 1 presents in condensed form the information assembled 

 concerning road expenditures and road bonds for New York. New 

 Jersey, and Pennsylvania: 



Table 1. — Road expenditures and road bonds, 1914. 



State. 



Total expen- 

 ditures, 1914. 



Eoad bonds voted or out- 

 standing to December 31, 1914. 



County, town, 

 and township. 



state. 





323,231,964 

 7,208,287 

 10,424,580 



$11,822,088 

 14,011,337 

 27,547,659 



1 SlOO, 000, 000 



New Jersey . 













TotaL. . - - - 



40, 864, 831 



53,381,084 



100,000,000 





I Of which S65,000,oao was issued to Dec. 31, 1914. 



