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on petition and notice to the county commissioners, may order any 

 part of the expense of repairing a highway paid by the coimty when 

 the whole would be burdensome to the town or when the county 

 convention has recommended such order. When the expense of 

 rebuilding or repairing a highway is excessively burdensome to the 

 town in which it is situated, the supreme court, upon petition and 

 proceedings thereon, as in the case of laying out a highway, may 

 order a portion of such expense paid by the other towns that will be 

 benefited thereby. 



AU the moneys obtained from automobUe licenses are awarded by 

 the highway commissioner to the respective towns for the purpose of 

 maintaining the roads previously built under the State-aid law, or 

 built under trunk-line appropriations. This money is divided 65 

 per cent to trunk lines and 35 per cent to State aid. The highway 

 commissioner notifies each town of the amount estimated as neces- 

 sary to maintain its State-aid and trunk-line roads for the coming 

 season, and adds to this apportionment certain sums, provided the 

 town raise a fixed sum. This fund is expended under the direction 

 of the State highway commissioner. 



REVENUES APPLIED TO ROADS AND BRIDGES, 1914. 



The total revenues apphed to roads and bridges in 1914 amounted 

 to $1,590,464.11, comprising the following items: Town appropria- 

 tions for town roads, $788,291.11; contributions by towns to State- 

 aid roads, $301,288; State contributions to State-aid roads, $491,520; 

 and expenditures by State for work done solely at State expense, 

 $9,365. Of the $491,520 contributed by the State for State-aid work, 

 $271,767 was for construction, $157,155 was for maintenance, 

 $11,995 for administration, and $50,603 for miscellaneous equipment. 

 Of the $301,288 contributed by the towns, $225,000 was for construc- 

 tion and $76,288 was for maintenance. 



The total revenues apphed to roads and bridges in 1904 amounted 

 to $872,606.35, of which the State contributions were $44,000. It 

 thus appears that the revenues applied to this p^irpose increased in 

 1914 over 1904 $717,857.76, or 82.2 per cent. 



The amounts appropriated by towms for town roads are shown by 

 counties and towns in Table 8. 



ROAD AND BRIDGE BONDS. 



According to the report of the State auditor, there was outstanding, 

 September 1, 1914, a total of $675,000 of State highway bonds. These 

 bonds are deferred serial in character, payable between 1915 and 1924, 

 and bear 3 to 3^ per cent interest. 



