Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 22: March 1956 First, for over 24 years, the state has had complete responsibility for the maintenance and improvement of all the public roads in the state. North Carolina was the first state in the nation to take such action, completely relieving the counties and townships of all local roads in 1931. Since that date, the motor vehicle, and not real property, has furnished all the tax revenues for the building, improve ment and upkeep of all local roads. As well as state highways. Second, the state has financed a more expensive program of secondary road improvements than has any other state in recent years. During the five years ending June 30, 1954, the state spent $350 million on this system; and, since 1931, the state has expend ed over $600 million on this system. Both figures include Federal Aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.