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eioners shall levy on each male between 21 and 50 years of age not exempt by law a 

 road, poll tax of $1.50, which may be paid in cash or by one day's labor. 



Of the fees received for licensing and registering motor vehicles 85 per cent are 

 placed in the county motor-vehicle fund to be expended for highway and culvert 

 purposes outside the limits of cities and towns. 



The electors of each township, at the annual March town meeting, vote to raise 

 such sums for constructing bridges and for highway labor and road taxes as they may 

 deem expedient and the township supervisors must levy the taxes so authorized; 

 but such road tax shall not exceed 50 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation. There 

 may be assessed annually against each male, not exempt by law, between 21 and 50 

 years of age a road poll tax of $1.50 or one day's labor. Any road tax levied by the 

 board of county commissioners in addition to the poll tax may be worked out at $1.50 

 a day in the road district in which the person assessed resides, if a personal tax or a 

 tax on personal property, and in the road district where the real property is situated 

 if a tax on real property. Township taxes, poll and property, are payable in cash, 

 unless a majority of the electors at a town meeting vote that such taxes may be paid 

 in labor. 



When a petition is presented to the board of supervisors of any organized town, 

 signed by two-thirds of the legal voters thereof, praying for a certain amount of money 

 to be raised for the construction of any road or roads, ditch or ditches, or similar work, 

 the supervisors issue and sell bonds for the amount specified, but not in excess of 5 

 per cent of the taxable valuation of the town nor in any case more than $5,000. 



Provision is made for working county convicts on the public roads. 



ROAD MILEAGE. 



At the close of 1914 South Dakota had, according to the reports received, 96,306 

 miles of public road, of which 363 miles, or 0.37 per cent, were sm-faced. Of the sur- 

 faced roads 212 miles were gravel, 129 sand-clay, 10 bituminous macadam, and 12 

 surfaced with other materials. There were reported also 17,071.5 miles of graded and 

 drained earth road. 



In 1909 South Dakota reported 56,354 miles of public road, of which 286 miles, or 

 0.5 per cent, were surfaced, a gain in surfaced roads of 77 miles. Information regard- 

 ing road mileage is presented by counties in Table 25. 



REVENUES APPLIED TO ROADS AND BRIDGES. 



The total revenue from all sources applied to roads and bridges in 1914 by the 

 various counties and townships in South Dakota amounted to $1,217,809.42. This 

 does not include Clark, Edmunds, and Haakon Counties, from which it was impossible 

 to obtain information. The total revenue applied to roads and bridges in 1904 

 amounted to $383,283.07, a gain for the 10-year period of $834,526.35, or 217.73 per 

 cent. Information in regard to revenue applied to roads and bridges in the year 1914 

 is presented by counties in Table 48. 



No State, county or township road and bridge bonds are outstanding at present in 

 South Dakota. 



UTAH.i 



Utah has a land area of 82,184 square miles and a total road mileage of 8,810, of which 

 1,153.75, or 13.09 per cent, were surfaced at the close of 1914. 



The State road commission consists of the governor, the State engineer, the State 

 treasurer, one member of the faculty of the agricultural college of Utah and one mem- 

 ber of the faculty of the University of Utah, all serving without compensation. The 

 State road commission designates a system of State roads, has charge of the expendi- 

 tures of the State road fund, aids the boards of covmty commissioners by furnishing 



1 In collecting the information for Utah, assistance was rendered by E. R. Morgan, State road engineer, 

 and collaborator of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 



