Road Legislation for the American StateAmerican economic association, 1889 - 83 sider |
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Road Legislation for the American State Jeremiah Whipple Jenks Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2019 |
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50 cents administration agents voyers AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION American Historical Association appointed Baltimore benefit better building carting chemins vicinaux circumstances cities common conseil général considered cost country roads county authority county board county engineer course département dirt roads dollars doubtless England estimates expense EXTRA VOLUME fact fairly well settled farmers farms France généraux Government grade granted hauled horse hundred important roads improvement JEREMIAH W Johns Hopkins University KNOX COLLEGE labor tax laid land LAWS OF FRANCE levied main roads market town ment miles money tax officials one-half ordinary paid parish permanent roads political poll tax practice prestataires prestations Price 75 cents provision question railroads railway repairs road laws ROAD LEGISLATION roads running secure seems service vicinal subventions industrielles surveyor system of roads taxation tion toll companies toll roads township traffic turnpike turnpike trusts wagon York
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Side 58 - I know not, in the whole range of language, terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. Let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally propose to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Side 58 - ... to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil ; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with rutts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Side 15 - English horse employed in the streets of a city or on the roads of the country does twice as much work as the American horse similarly employed in America. This is the patent undeniable fact. The simple explanation is that the Englishman has invested in perfect and permanent roads what the American expends in perishable horses that require to be fed.
Side 63 - Subject to the foregoing provisions the ancillary receiver and his deputies shall have the same powers and be subject to the same duties with respect to the administration of such assets, as a receiver of an insurer domiciled in this state.
Side 61 - ... in proportion to the average of the expenditure incurred during the three last preceding years in such parishes respectively in maintaining and keeping in repair the highways thereof; but the expenses of maintaining and keeping in repair the highways of each parish within the district, and all other expenses in relation to such highways, except such expenses as are in this Act authorized to be charged to the district fund, shall be a separate charge on each.] [XXI.
Side 62 - March one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine be deemed to have been incurred for the common use or benefit of the several Parishes within their District, and shall be charged on the District Fund...
Side 66 - District roads, to be controlled and maintained by the state, but the expense thereof to be borne by the towns and cities of the districts in which said road shall lie, and the state, in such proportions as said Board shall apportion.