OFFICE OF ROAD INQUIRY.

BULLETIN No. 9.

STATE AID

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ROAD-BUILDING IN NEW JERSEY,

BY

EDWARD BURROUGH,

CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW JERSEY STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE AND STATE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC ROADS.

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

The beginnings of public roads.

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Gradual improvement of wagon roads.

Turnpikes established

The general road law and its abuses.

Efforts of the State board of agriculture to obtain better roads..

Passage of the law abolishing overseers of highways....
Injustice of the system of toll bridges and toll roads..

First improved stone roadways in New Jersey.

Success of the township bonding act

The State-aid" law of 1891....

Salient features of the State aid law

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Where the cost rests under the State aid law.

The first roads built under the new law
Amendments to the State aid law

The extent of the county demands under the law.
Saving effected by good roads...

Opinions of farmers regarding road improvements..

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
OFFICE OF ROAD INQUIRY,

Washington, D. C., May 23, 1894.

SIR: I have the honor to submit the accompanying paper on State aid to road-building in New Jersey, prepared at my request by the Hon. Edward Burrough, chairman of the State board of agriculture of that State, who has had the responsible charge of administering the State's contributions, and who has lately been appointed commissioner of roads for New Jersey. There is a general demand for information on this subject, New Jersey being the only State which has contributed in this manner to road improvement. Appended to the paper are numerous letters from farmers giving their experiences with improved and unimproved roads.

I would recommend the publication of the paper and accompanying letters as Bulletin No. 9 of the Office of Road Inquiry.