. Boone County Recorder . s prepared. It was not until after the state aidlaw passed by the General Assembly Jof 1914 became operative that theetate was really in a position to lendmaterial aid to the counties. Althougha great deal* was accomplished by theCommissioner and his assistants priorto 1910, it was only, as stated above,advisory, which in many instances itWas bard to get the county officialsto take advantage of the engineeringassistance offered, but in 1914 the gen-eral assembly passed a law levying afive-cent tax on each $100 worth of tax-able property in the state of la
. Boone County Recorder . s prepared. It was not until after the state aidlaw passed by the General Assembly Jof 1914 became operative that theetate was really in a position to lendmaterial aid to the counties. Althougha great deal* was accomplished by theCommissioner and his assistants priorto 1910, it was only, as stated above,advisory, which in many instances itWas bard to get the county officialsto take advantage of the engineeringassistance offered, but in 1914 the gen-eral assembly passed a law levying afive-cent tax on each $100 worth of tax-able property in the state of law further provided that themoney-should be distributed to thecounties based upon the amount of«npney_ lcvied^agdr-cottected in each ~county for roadbuilding, and that nocounty should receive in any one yearmore than two per cent of the totalroad fund. The department imme-diately set to work in the spring of1915 to secure the co-operation of thecounties in building a system of roads as laid out In the bill passed by the j. JAS. B. McCREARYFormer Governor of Kentucky. and specifications and estimates ofcost for many bridges and madeTnany~3iTrveys for sites, assisted inroad and bridge building, and thesentiment in favor of good publicroads has been greatly strength-ened. The law creating the departmentset aside from the license tax onautomobiles, which constitutes theState Road Fund, the amount whichhas been necessary to make theroad service efficient. The new road law in Kentuckyhas met but little opposition, and where it has been given a fair andimpartial trial by county officials,and the county road engineers havebeen given an opportunity to per-form their duties unhampered, ithas been entirely satisfactory. The State of Kentucky no doubtwill continue the progressive poli-cies so successfully instituted. A system of good roads is thebasis of the countrys progress andupon this largely depends its ma-terial development and roads have been comparedto the veins a
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