Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — JASPER GETS $598.70 MORE [ARTICLE]

JASPER GETS $598.70 MORE

A Total of fl 0,357.53, Its Share of 1913 Auto License Fees. The net receipts of the secretary of state's'office for automobile license fees for the last half of the year 1918 amounted to $58,707.53, making the total for the year $1,393,739.10, a gain over 1917 of $184,625.84. This $58,707.53 will be distributed among the counties on the basis of one-third equally, onethird on basis of number of miles of Improved roads In each county and the other third on the basis of license receipts from each county. Jasper county will receive $508.70, which with the $9,848.83 received last August from the receipts for the first six months of 1918, makes a total of $16,357.53 for the entire year, about $2,000 more than was paid ’in for automobile licenses by Tesidents of this county. Benton county receives $616.89; Newton county, $525.48; Pulaski bounty, $333.45; White county, $681.16; Lake county, $1,644.77. More money had been collected at the end of the first quarter of 1919 than was collected altogether for the first six months of last year by about $300,000. This is the last year the receipts will be distributed to the counties. After this year, by act of the last legislature, the money will go into the state highway fund. The 1919 distributions will be made approximately in August 1919, and in March, 1920.