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Cannon, Alphaeus Cannon, Charles T. Parrish, Kindscy Wharton, Robert Lj. Brown and William D. Cannon, j - -1----—-H—1 Allotment Set For

County Roads

The State Highway Commission ■ today announced allocations totaling $155,944 for maintaining, and improving Rappahannock County’s system of secondary roads during the fiscal year beginning July 1.

Virginia’s 40,000-mile system of secondary; roads was allocated a total of $33,191,085, exceeding by $2,679,778 the amount alloted for the current fiscal year.

Most of the state money is distributed to the 96 counties in the secondary system by a formula which includes population, secondary road mileage, rural area and vehicle miles of travel. (Arlington and Henrico counties maintain their own secondary roads and are not included in tl|£ allocations. Federal secondary money is distributed on a three-factor basis which includes area, population and road mileage.

Highway officials pointed out that the allocations are based on anticipated revenue during the.fis

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