Excerpt from New Roads and Road Laws in the United States This work attempts only to give a condensed account of recent progress in American road-making, with details of the examples which have been most conspicuously successful, together with some suggestions for legislation and for road construction. New developments succeed each other rapidly in this field: since the body of this book was in type, committees of the New York State Legislature and Boards of Super visors have visited the State Aid Road Districts of New Jersey, and on their return have passed a State Aid law through the lower house by a vote of four to one. 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.

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Excerpt from Manual of the Highway Laws of the State of New York: With an Appendix of Forms It has been the aim of the author to confine himself exclusively to the subject of Public Highways and Private Roads. The various kinds of ways such as rivers, canals, railways, etc., - though properly in cluded under the generic term Highway, have been referred to only where their connection with the prin cipal subject has rendered it necessary. 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.

Excerpt from Road Legislation for the American State The principal reason for this comparative neglect of the common roads in nearly all countries is, of course, to be found in the astonishing growth of the railway systems, and, since the invention of the steamboat, of commerce by water. These have ren dered unnecessary long roads such as the ancient Aztecs and Romans found it wise to build for com mercial and military purposes. Then, too, though the railroads have not really lessened the importance of the wagon road, they seem to have done so and they certainly have overshadowed it in political import ance, so that legislators, naturally, have passed it by. 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.