The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1913-06-05
FEES PASS HALF
MILLION.
Collections of State Motor Vehicle
Department Total 1894, S4.27.

Automobiles and, motorcycllsts
have contributed more than S5o0,-
900 to the state for licenses, accord
ing to a report prepared by r. 5.
HAYWARD, chief clerk in the motor
vehicle department of the secretary
of states office. The revenues for
1913 numbers have reached the total
of s534,l34.27. With seven months
Of the year remaining, 1T is expected
that this record will be greatly IN
creased.
A gain of $4,000 already has
been made by the automobile depart
ment. The fees collected last year
| by this department totaled $4se'-
299.68.
Included in the figures for the
| first half of the year are the reglsra'
tons of 48,91l automobiles, an III
crease of 4,723 over last year, when
44,1SS machines were registered.
More than 900 applications are still
on file and this increase will reach
5000. Motorcyclists to the number
of Ais have been registered, ana
there are 1872 automobile dealers
Transfers to date have reached the
total of 3,464. Motorcycles show a
falling off in numbers as compared
with the registration last year, when
APIS machines were registered, but
that was for the entire year.
The clerical expense Of the motor
vehicle bureau for the tive months
Of this year, to June l, has been
S6,l5237, to which should be added
$500 for the time of clerks III the
document department who assisted
in sending out the number plates.
The motor vehicle bureau has been
overcrowded with work all the year
and it has been only through con-
tinuous and hard work that so many
registrations could be handled in so
short time.
The necessary assistance was not
granted by the last general assembly
to do this work expeditiously, sever
al more clerks having been needed to
complete the work as it should be
done, but the money available would
not permit the employment of more
At the present time there are about
5000 certificates of registration to
be written and mailed, but there IS
no money available to employ the
necessary clerks to do this work.
Every application for the registra-
ton of new machines has been at
tended to, and there are but two or
three days mail of old machines to
be attended to, besides those which
need correction or further verlhca-
ton as to age of machines.
Much of the laborious work OF
examining of applications for the
registration of old machines will be
done away with after this summer,
upon the compilation of factory
number index Each car will have
it's own card, with record thereon
of it's first Iowa registration and
each subsequent transfer or new
registration with date, number as
signed and name and address OF own
er. This will greatly expedite the
| work for the remainder of this year
and for all coming years. This sys-
tenn has been worked out by the
chief clerk of the department, R. S.
Hayward, and the cards and new
cases for filing have been already
ordered by the executive council.
New registration application forms
have also been prepared by Mr.. Hay
| ward for this department, which it
is believed will materially aid IN re-
ducing the WORK of the bureau and
at the same time aid the automobile
owner in preparing his application,
and new certificate forms and other
changes are being prepared which
will lessen the labor heretofore re-
quired.
The department was prepared to
register $4,000 automobiles for this
year, but it has already been neces-
sary to order an additional 10000
pair of number plates in anticipation
Of the future registrations, as 49,
gil numbers have already been as
signed; as the numbering began at
5,001 the highest number issued at
the close of business May 81, was
1871.