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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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state highway system under the$18,000,000 bond issue has continued as heretofore under the same per-sonnel. Three members of the advisory board of the Department ofEngineering have continued as an executive committee under the desig-nation California Highway Commission to have charge of the work,and the Highway Engineer of the department has acted as chiefengineer and executive officer of the commission. The $18,000,000 state highway fund is now nearly exhausted and thecommissioners have in contemplation the preparation of a report of allwork done thereunder, giving a complete account of their stewardship.This report will be made up at the completion of the expenditure of thestate highway fund. At the election in November, 1910, on the $18,000,000 bond issue, outof a total of 173.806 votes, there was a majority in favor of the bonds of12,786 votes. On November 7, 1916, the voters of California considereda new bond issue of $15,000,000 for state highways. With a total of PLATE XXXIII.
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Top—State highway, Monterey County.Middle—State Highway, San Benito County.Bottom—State Highway, San Luis Obispo County. (p. 1041 STATE HIGHWAYS. 195 679,346 votes cast, there was a majority of 405,132 in favor of the high-way bonds, a majority of nearly 4 to 1, and more than thirty times thefavorable majority at the election of 1910. This is a showing of theincrease of interest in the road problem and must in part at least beconsidered a vote of approval by the people of the state highwaysalready completed under the $18,000,000 bond issue. The details of the work under the first bond issue, as already stated,will be included in the final report to be made a few months from now,but a general statement of the extent of the work done during the years1915-16 is pertinent: Concrete Counties Topeka surfacing, miles Thinbituminoussurfacing, miles Gradedonly,miles AlamedaButte .-Colusa - Contra Costa Glenn Humboldt Kings _ Los Angeles Marin Monterey _. Orange San Benito San Diego __ Sa

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