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A tax not to exceed 5 mills on the dollar for road purposes and 4 mills on the dollar 
for bridge purposes may be levied in each county. A road poll tax of $1.50, or one 
day's labor, upon all male persons between 21 and 50 years of age not exempt by law 
also may be levied. 
In each county having a population of 2,000 or more, according to the latest Federal 
census, there shall be levied and collected a tax of not less than one-fourth mill or 
more than 4 mills on the dollar, the proceeds to go into a county road fund, to be 
used only for grading, ditching and surfacing the principal thoroughfares of the 
county. 
Township supervisors may levy for road and bridge purposes a tax of not to exceed $1 
on each $100 of assessed valuation. 
The net proceeds from licensing and registering motor vehicles are returned to the 
counties from which collected for the purpose of maintaining the main-traveled roads. 
Authority is given for working State convicts upon the public highways. 
ROAD MILEAGE. 
At the close of 1914 North Dakota had. according to the reports received, a total of 
68,796 miles of public road, of which 955 miles or 1.38 per cent were surfaced with 
gravel. There was also reported 25,306 miles of graded and drained earth roads. At 
the close of 1909 North Dakota had 61,593 miles of public road, of which 140 miles or 
0.23 per cent were surfaced; a gain of 815 miles of surfaced road in the 5-year period. 
Information showing mileage of roads at the close of 1914 is presented in Table 22. 
REVENUES APPLIED TO ROADS AND BRIDGES. 
The total revenue applied to roads and bridges in 1914 amounted to $2,402,383.52, 
of which $2,016,419.64 was received from the general county and township tax; 
$44,900.60 from automobile licenses; $84,092.95 from poll taxes paid in cash; 
$214,283.58 from special road and bridge funds and other sources, and $42,686.75 which 
represented the cash value of the property poll tax worked out upon the public roads. 
The total revenue applied to roads in 1904 amounted to $550,340.72, a gain in the 10- 
year period of $1,852,042.80 or 436.52 per cent. Information showing the revenues 
applied to roads and bridges during the year 1914 is presented in Table 45. 
No road and bridge bonds have been issued by the State, counties or townships 
in North Dakota. 
OHIO. 
Ohio has a land area of 40,740 square miles, a total road mileage of 86,354, of which 
30,569.17 miles or 35.16 per cent were surfaced at the close of 1914. 
The governor appoints a State highway commissioner for four years unless sooner 
removed by the governor. The State highway commissioner appoints three deputy 
commissioners, each of whom must be a competent civil engineer. One is designated 
chief highway engineer. One of the deputy commissioners has supervision of all road 
construction work, another of all road maintenance and repair work and the third of 
all bridge and culvert construction, maintenance, and repair work. Necessary 
division engineers may be appointed by the State highway commissioner. The State 
highway commissioner is vested with general supervision of the construction, im- 
provement, maintenance, and repair of all intercounty highways and main market 
roads, and the bridges and culverts. Upon the request of county or township road 
officials, he gives engineering advice and assistance and causes surveys, plans, speci- 
fications, and estimates to be prepared for the construction, maintenance and repair 
of roads, bridges or culverts. 
The State highway commissioner was required by the legislature to designate and 
report to the governor a system of intercounty highways; and the legislature has 
designated a system of main market roads, which follow along and upon the route 
