PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND REVENUES, 1914. 3 
to the respective State collaborators or to the heads of the State 
highway departments, who thereupon prepared a text explanatory 
of the statistical tables and of the administrative systems in effect 
in their respective States, or approved a text prepared in this office. 
ROAD ADMINISTRATION IN THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES. 
All of the Middle Atlantic States have highway departments and 
apply State funds to the aid of road improvement. This policy was 
inaugurated in New Jersey in 1892, in New York in 1898, and in 
Pennsylvania in 1903. In New York and Pennsylvania the construc- 
tion and maintenance of all roads is in a measure under State control. 
New York has developed a rather highly centralized highway depart- 
ment, and, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, has a comprehensive 
system of State highways, for the construction and maintenance of 
which State funds are appropriated. 
PUBLIC ROAD REVENUES. 
State road funds in New York were at first provided by direct appro- 
priations and at the beginning of 1906 amounted to $25,000,000. 
During that year, a $50,000,000 State bond issue was authorized, 
and a second issue of $50,000,000 in 1912. Of the total bonds au- 
thorized, $65,000,000 were issued on authority of the legislature to 
the close of the year 1914. In New Jersey and Pennsylvania State 
funds are provided by direct appropriations from the State treasury. 
Aside from the State-aid funds a considerable portion of the revenues 
for roads is provided by taxes, levied by the towns in New York State, 
by counties and townships in New Jersey, and by townships in Penn- 
sylvania. Approximately one-third of all expenditures are provided 
by local units in New York and about one-half in New Jersey and 
Pennsylvania. 
Table 1 presents in condensed form the information assembled 
concerning road expenditures and road bonds for New York, New 
Jersey, and Pennsylvania: 
Table 1. — Road expenditures and road bonds, 1914. 
State. 
Total expen- 
ditures, 1914. 
Road bonds voted or out- 
standing to December 31, 1914. 
County, town, 
and township. 
State. 
New York 
$23,231,964 
7, 208, 287 
10, 424, 580 
$11,822,088 
14,011,337 
27, 547, 659 
i $100, 000, 000 
New Jersey 
Pfinnsylvania. 
Total 
40, 864, 831 
53,381,084 ion ono nnn 
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Of which 865,000,000 was issued to Dec. 31, 1914. 
