The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-04-26
ApportIonment of Highway Funds.

| - AAAsAWdy commission an.
hounces the opportionment of the seq
ono '1nstallment of Federal aid funds
hor cooperative road building in this
seaIs' amounting to 1925, 200, the most
o1 II gong to counties along the Cen.
tral Highway, Morehead to Asheville
10 assure immediate completion of the
| A,shWay. These appointments,
which must be in some instances
doubled and aquadrupled by the conn.
Ties receiving the air, are as follows !:
Carteret $4,000; Craven O,OOO: LIE.
no1r $4,000; Wayne $4,000. John.
SION $o'OOO; Wake $4,000; Durham
$4,000; Orange $4,000: Alamance
So.OOO; Guilford $4,000; Rowan $1O,.
OOO; Iredell $1,000; Caldwell $4,000:
Mcdowell $4,000; Burke SO 900.
There are also spportionments for
roads other than Central Highway in
counties as follows: Pamlico $4,000:
Rockingham $4,000; Surry $4,000:
cumberland $4,000; Sampson $4,000;
Alexander $4,000; Caldwell and Ca.
taWba, for a joint bridge, $4,000;
Caldwell $500; Davidson $4,000:
Halifax $4,000; Watauga $4,000; Lee
$4,000; Vance $4,000; Union $4,000;
Polk $4,000
The commission directed Doctor
Pratt, as secretary, to comply with a
request from the newly formed high
way commission of South Carolina
and attend the organization meeting
OF that commission and suggest the or
ganiZatiOn plans and work
The North Carolina commission an.
nounces readiness to carry out the
provisions of a special act of the re-
cent Legislature in providing a fund
OF $4,000 for rural engineering in as
s1sting farmers in laying out tele-
phone lines and developing small wa
ter powers
State Engineer Falls, just back
from Washington, reports Federal
agreement to allot funds for special
projects that include $4,000 toward
a Catawba bridge project by Neck.
lenburg and Catawba; $4,000 for
maintenance of state convict work on
the Hickory Nut Gap Highway; $1O,.
600 for the Swannanoa Highway.
Settles Matter Of Road Tax Funds.
The confusion which has resulted
from the passage of two bills by the
general assembly, partly identical, but
which vary in time of operation, affec-
ting the distribution of the automobile
license tax funds, has been settled, sc
far as the attorney general can settle
it.
Attorney General Manning has ruled
that of the two measures one of which
was ratified on March and the other
on March z, the one of March rules
Those measures, among other
things, provided for the. use of the
remainder of the automobile funds.
after expenses Of handling were paid
as road maintenance fund. Seventy
per cent of the remainder, it was pro.
vided, should be expended in the va
rious counties under the direction of
the highway commission, according to
the pro-rata share of those counties
in the tax. The thirty per cent. it
was held, should be expended by the
highway commission for general main
tenance work throughout the state.
One of the measures, that ratified
March 5, declared that the bill should
be effective Immediately upon it's rati-
f1cation. The other ratified on March
Z held that it should become effective
after July LIST.
AS a result of this, and the ruling of
the attorney general that the last to
become ratified rules, none of the 1916
II license tax money is available to
he highway commission and must be
heretofore The highway commission
will not come into it's share of the |
fruits of the general automobile law |
until the next fiscal year beginning |
with July list.