The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-04-12
CHATTER Ind.

CHAPTER 15i.
AN ACT to Provide State Aid for the
Construction of Highways Extending
Continuously thru Three or More
Towns.
BE Ii enacted, etc:
Section /. Three or more towns thru
which extends continuous highway
not less than fifteen miles In length
may, not later than April first In any
one year. vote to appropriate for the
construction of such highway as n state
aid highway. sums determined accord
ing to the provisions of section eighteen
of chapter twenty-five of the revised
statutes. or any multiplcs thereof, UP 10
five times such sums
Section 2. When three or more sucn
towns thru which extends continuously
at least fifteen miles of such highway
shall hive so appropriated, the state
highway commission shall. from the
fund for the construction of state aid
highways. set apart for the eonstrue-
ton of such highway, an aggregate
sum the component parts whereof shall
be determined as follows:
In the case OF town having appro-
prated an amount determined accord
ing to the provisions Of said section
eighteen, there shall be set apart from
the fund for the construction of state
aid highways the same amount as. I'M
der the provisions OF section twenty
apportioned 10 such town. in the case
OF a town having increased its ap-
preparation over the amount determ-
ined according to the provisions of
said section eighteen to any multiple
thereof. there shall be st apart a sum
representing like Increase, together
with an additional sum. equal to TWEEN
ty-flvc per cent of such increase in
the case of town appropriating
twice the Slmount determined by said
section eighteen; fifty per cent of such
increase in the case of n town appro-
priating three times the amount de-
termined by said section ciEhtccn;
SeVrntN-fiNc per cent OF such increase
In the ease Of a town appropriating
four times the amount determined by
said section eighteen; and one hundred
per cent of such increase in the case
of town appropriating i've times the
amount determined by said section
eighteen.
Section 3 The aggregate sum SO
set apart. together with the sums APP
prnpriated by such towns. shall con
ton oil such state aid highway and
shall b. expended under the direct ion
and supervision of the state highway
commission; provided that all money
appropriated by any such town shall
be expended upon that portion of sucf.
highway lying within the limits shcre-
Of. and thqt, Of the money set apart
by the state highway commission, rs
ibi . PRIV ~ u - iiit' II 'h
OF as is set apart in consequence Of
the appropriation made by any such
town and is required for the compile
ton of that portion of The highway
lying within such town shall be ex-
pended therein. Payments by the
towns Of the sum by them apprOpri
ated under the provisions of this act,
In whole or In part. shall be made
forth with TO the treasurer of state on
requisition by the commission as the
work Progresses.
Section 4. Towns making appropria-
lions under the provisions of this act
shall do so by acting upon an article, In
the warrant for the meeting Mt which
such Appropriation Ia made. of substan-
tally the following tenor:
Article, To see what sum. If any.
the town viii vote to raise In accord
ance with tho provisions Of chapter
(herc insert number of this chapte) Of
the public laws Of nineteen hundred and
seventeen for the construction OF n
state highway extending from (here in
scrt description OF highway sufficient 10
mako certain Its location) and the de-
scrlption set out I'm such article shall be
the Same in substance for all such
towns cities making such appropriate
lions shall incorporate into the act or
order therefor n similar description OF
the contemplated highway.
Section r. Towns availng themselves
of the provisions of this act, shall in
the same year, receive no other money
under the provisions Of sections twenty
or twcnty-one Of said chapter twenty
five.
Improved April 3 i9l71