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sioners 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 surfaced. 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 Tabje 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. 1 
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 county 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. 
