Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-07-11
COUNTY To GET
S110,OOO N. ].
ROAD MONEY
Will Come From Motor We
hicIe Dept.--No Other State
Aid Provided for -
By rpecia1 Correspondent.

BIZ rpecial corresDondsnt.f
TRENTON, July 11-As result of
the action of the State Highway Com
mission in apportioning the moneys,
the twenty-one counties of the state
will receive a total of $2,S10.000 for
use on their roads in 1920. In addi-
ton they will directly benefit from
the expenditure of 100000 more,
which will go toward the maintaining
of the 800 miles of road in the new
State Highway System which the
Highway Commission will have taken
over by September.
When a part of the State Highway
is taken over the county in which it
lies is relieved of further RESPONSE
bility for its maintenance. Therefore
as the result of the action Just taken
here by the commission, the counties
will have the benefit of the expendi-
ture of $3,310,000, during 1920, which,
of course, is outside of the funds
which are derived from the direct
state tax.
OF the $2,81o,o 900 to be devoted d.
rectly to the counties the sum of $2,-
100000 comes out of the receipts of
the Motor Vehicle Department and
the remainder $46O,000 from the state
aid to counties provided by the Legis-
lature The latter is now available.
Following is the apportionment of the
Motor Vehicle money:
Atlantic, $4,000; Bergen. $780,
:. 900; Burlington, $1S5,oo0; Camden,
$115,000; Cape May. $4,000; Cumber-
land, $4,000; Essex, $225,O0o; Glou-
cester, $4,000; Hudson, 100000 Gin
cluding $4,000 for the Hudson Boule
vard); Hunterdon, $4,000; Mercer,
$11O,O00; Mddleseix, $4,000; Mon
mouth, s155,000; Morris, 100000;
Ocean, $4,000; Passaic, $145,0o0;
Salem, $4,000; Somerset $4,000;
q n xy<,-
ren, $4,000; Emergency Reserve
The following counties will receive
the state aid moneys: Bergen, $780,
900; Burlington, $25,000; Camden,
$4,000; Cumberland, $4,000; Glou-
cester, $4,000; Hudson, $4,000;
Monmouth, s4s.ooo; Norris, ss7,5Oo;
Ocean, $4,000; Passaic, SIT 900; Sa-
lem, $25,000; Somerset, $4,000; Sus-
sex, $4,000; Union, $4,000; Warren,
$45.o00.
The counties of the Atlantic, Cape
May, Essex and Middlesex did not
share in this apportionment, but, this
was made up for them In the amounts
they will receive from the distributor
of the motor vehicle funds.
The counties will spend their state
aid moneys for new construction pur-
poses and the motor vehicle funds
will be devoted to the maintenance
and reconstruction of their roads.
The funds so allotted about equal the
amount of last year for the same
purposes.
The money was apportioned by the
executive committee of the State
Highway Commission, consisting OF
Messrs. Watson G. Clark, of Tenaf1y;
Robert S. Parson, of Nutley; Walter
J. Buzby, of Atlantic City, and John
olr rAf n a iYT a
of the commission, ex-oficio. Their
recomm mendations were approved by
the Highway Commission in meeting
here. The executive committee reach
ed its conclusion as to what each
county ought to have after the moSt
mature thought and deliberation and
they expended asgreat deal of time
in hearings and travelling about the
state in order to reach the best judg-
ment possible.
Commissioner of Institutions and
Agencies Burdette g. Lewis and
David I. Kelly director Of the Bu-
reau of Labor, Agriculture and so
forth in the Department of lnstltu-
-tions. appeared before the Highway
Commission relative to the matter OF
providing men from the state prison
FOR work on the highways of the
state. Lewis explained that If the
authority for the supervision OF the
prisoners was solely in the hands OF
his department he could assure the
commission that it would get the men
for its road building program, but he
said that Headkeeper Mulheron has
certain legal authorities over which
his department can exercise no juris-
diction.
The commission wanted to know
particularly if the institutional au'
thorities could guarantee 125 men
for the Budd Lake highway work In
Morris county which is being plan.
ned, as well as two allotmenGs OF IVu
men each for other work in the state
respectively at Monmouth Junction
and West Portal. If it can be as
sured that this snumber of men will
be forthcoming from the prison Ia
Dor, then the highway body will pro-
ceed to buy the equipment and starr
the work.