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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 county 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. 
All the moneys obtained from automobile 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 applied 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 applied 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 purpose increased in 
1914 over 1904 $717,857.76, or 82.2 per cent. 
The amounts appropriated by towns for town roads are shown by 
counties and towns in Table 8. 
ROAD AND BRnXJE 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. 
