Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 February 1948 — COUNTY GETS BOOST IN AID FOR HIGHWAYS [ARTICLE]

COUNTY GETS BOOST IN AID FOR HIGHWAYS

Jasper County Gets $20,678 More Than Year Ago For Use On Its Highways Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 9 Jasper county received an additional $20,678.64 for county roads last year under the revised formula for distribution of state motor vehicle funds, it was revealed today. Republican State headquarters, commenting upon the Republicansponsored fund law passed by the 1947 Legislature, said an additional $1,615,750.38 was distributed to Indiana’s 92 counties under the law during 1947. This represented an increase of approximately 14 per cent over distribution under the formula established in 1945. Jasper county’s regular share in 1947 was $116,648.88, approximately the same as the $116,275.52 received in 1946. The $20,678.64 increase results from a formula which requires payment by the state of 64 per cent of the net excess in the motor fuel fund over $7,500,000 in each quarter. Excess payments were possible in three of the four quarters last year. County shares are paid on the basis of the ratio of actual miles of county highways in each county as compared to the total mileage of all such highways in the state. Total state distribution to the counties in 1947 was about $13,000,000, as against $11,318,441.76 in 1946.