KOAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES IN NEW ENGLAND STATES. 9 
In 1909 Maine had 2,592.09 miles, or 10.1 per cent, of roads sur- 
faced, thus indicating an increase in the five-year period, 1909-1914, 
of 170.27, miles, or 1.64 per cent. 
The mileage figures for 1914 are presented by counties and towns 
in Table 16. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
New Hampshire has a land area of 9,031 square miles, a total road 
mileage of 14,020.10, and a population, according to the 1910 census, 
of 430,572. The State, therefore, has a population of 47.67 per 
square mile of area and 30.71 per mile of road, with 1.55 miles of road 
per square mile of area. Of the population in 1910, 40.8 per cent, or 
175,473, was rural, an average of 12.51 per mile of road. 
In 1905 the governor and council were authorized by law to appoint 
a State engineer and such other engineers as might be deemed neces- 
sary for the purpose of carrying on road work undertaken by the 
State. In 1915 a new act was passed empowering the governor and 
council to appoint a highway commissioner skilled in the construc- 
tion and maintenance of highways. The highway commissioner 
exercises general supervision, control, and direction, on behalf of the 
State, over all matters pertaining to the location, construction, and 
maintenance of highways now or hereafter built or maintained, 
either in whole or in part, with money appropriated from the State 
treasury. He is vested with power to fix or decide all matters per- 
taining to the location and route of any such highways, methods of 
construction, materials, manner in which such highways shall be 
maintained, and all other matters pertaining thereto, including award 
of contracts. Appeals may be taken from his decision to the governor 
and council. The highway commissioner was authorized to desig- 
nate a system of cross-State highways for improvement, the cost to 
be borne one-half by the State and one-half by the town, city, or 
place within which such road is located, provided that where the town 
is financially unable to pay one-half of such cost, the State may pay 
such further sums in addition to its one-half as the State highway 
commissioner may deem equitable. Any cross-State highway may 
be improved by the city, town, or place within which it is located at 
the expense of the city, town, or place, and to the satisfaction of the 
State highway commissioner, hi which event the State shall reimburse 
such city, town, or place. 
Under an act passed in 1913, a system of trunk-line highways was 
designated for improvement by the governor and council and an 
issue of State bonds was authorized to meet the cost, but cities and 
towns through which such highways passed were to pay one-half the 
cost, less such portion thereof as the governor and council might 
deem equitable in towns unable to pay their share. By an act of 
1903 a system of State highways was outlined for improvement and 
