Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — 1918 HEADS MOTOR RECEIPTS [ARTICLE]

1918 HEADS MOTOR RECEIPTS

SIX MONTHS’ TAXES YIELDS $1,162,000 NET FOR COUNTY DISTRIBUTION. Receipts for automobile licenses by the state for the first six months of 1918 were greater than the receipts for any previous year. Fees and interest minus rebates for the six months ending July 1 amounted to $1,232,360.22. The expenses of running the department were $70,235.31, which left a balance of $1,162,124.91, which will be distributed to the nine-ty-two counties of the state.. The largest previous total collected was in 1917, when the department received $1,109,113.26 for automobile licenses. The amount received in the first six months of this year is about three times that received -in 1914 and more than twice the amount collected in 1915. Interest on the funds amounted to <58,038.57. The bulk of the expense in operating the department was used for postage and license plates. The expense amounts to 5.68 per cent of the revenues. 1 Checks to the ninety-two counties will be marled from the auditor’s office in the next two or three days. The distribution basis has just been worked out by Pliny Wolfard, deputy secretary of state. Of the funds onethird will be divided equally among the ninety-two counties, one-third according to the number of gravel road miles in each county and one-third according to the license receipts' from each county. Jasper county will receive in return $9,848.83. Receipts for automobile license fees have been: 1914 $ 432,295.78 1915 . . 598,113.72 1916 :.... 825,847.18 1917 1,109,113.26 Half of 1918 1,235,031.57 The total gravel road in the state is 32,791.41 miles. Grant, Madison and Marion counties with 945, 930 and 900 miles, respectively, have the greatest mileages.