The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-03-17
Owner Of SIXTY
HORSEPOWER CAR
MUST PAY WELL
License Fee for First Three Years
Will Be $21 Beginning Jan,
uary I, 1918. j
ORDINARY HENRY WILL
COST OWNER SIX BEANS
Registration Charge Booted
Means Near Half Million for
Good Roads

House Bill 1877, signed by Gov
ernor Frazier Tuesday, will, az
ter January l. 1918, create a fund of
at least half a million per annum to
be used in the building Of state sys.
tenn of trunk-line highways. With
the federal aid assured by the creation
of a state highway commission, a.
provided for in House Bill 1873, which
the governor has also signed, the
provisions Of this bill will make al
most three-quarters of million avail
able within the course OF two years.
and North Dakota will be in posi-
ton to undertake its first comprehen-
sive good roads campaign. A few
years ago the farmer opposed the i'm
position Of any special tax for the
building OF better roads. for 1.-The hifa-
lutin city fellows This year farm
er legislature, great majority Of
whom will be Immediately affected, al
most unanimously went on record in
favor of direct tax for good roads,
which will yield five times as much as
ever before has been considered pos
sible. The automobile has worked the
revolution, and the same automobile
will pay the tax.
Section 3 of House Bill 1877, which
boosts the registration fee, does not
become effective until January J..
1918. It's important provisions are:
The license fee for registration or
re-registration of motor vehicles shall
be not less than $500. 81
For motor vehicles having a higher
rating than twenty horsepower, an ad-
dtional fee of fifty cents shall be
added for each additional horsepower.
Provided, that il a motor vehicle
shall have been licensed for three sep
arate years under this section, and
the annual registration fee provided
paid during this period, the annual
registration fee thereafter shah be
One-half that amount.
The annual fee for the registration
or ,re-registration OF motorcycle or
motor bicycle in accordance with the
provisions OF this act shall be So.
Demonstrators Fee.
The bill as it finally came to the
governor does not require dealers to
purchase demonstrators license tags
in addition to paying the dealers IL
cense fee of SIS, for each make of car
handled. as originally proposed.
The Dealers license certificate must
be displayed in the dealers place of
business, and the secretary of state
shall issue to such dealer or demon
strat0r duplicate set of dealers IL
cense tags. AS many Of these dupli-
cate sets as the dealer may require
for demonstration cars are to be is
sued at fifty cents for each set, and it
is provided that no car shall be driven
at any time by any dealer which does
not display these duplicate tags, front
and rear.
The section affecting the registra-
ton of dealers becomes Immediately
as does another provision
which is of importance in enforcing
the registration act. Under the old
law, the secretary of state was re-
quired to issue duplicate tags, but the
was required to display but
one. There was nothing to prevent
his loaning or selling his duplicate tag
to friend, and it is alleged that this
frequently was done. The new Sec
lion 2976e specifically provides: "One
Of such tags shall be displayed upon
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