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Show MONEY FOR THE STATE ROADS. On July 1, the new law taxing motor mo-tor vehicles will call Tor half the yearly assessment to be paid, estimated esti-mated at about $40,000. The measure meas-ure requires that all motorcycles and automobiles shall get new registration registra-tion numbers each year, the plates to be furnished by the secretary of state, and the tax ranges from S3 a year for motorcycles to $20 for heavy motor mo-tor trucks. In general the tax schedule sched-ule is as follows: Motorcycles, S3; electric pleasure cars, $5 motor trucks np to one ton capacity, $5; one to three tons. $10: three to five tons, $15; over five ions, $20; for every other motor vehicle not over twenty-five horsepower, $li. over forty horsepower, comnierrlal motor vehicles used for hauling passengers pas-sengers exclusively, $10. The bill provides that in determining horsepower horse-power the rating of the American Association As-sociation of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers Man-ufacturers shall be used. Under its provisions It will become effective July 1. 1915. and one-half the annual tax will be payable at that time for the remainder of 1915. Numbers furnished by the secretary of stale must be used front and rear. Possessing an automobile after July 1 will mean something more than meeting a gasoline bill. The owners will be compelled to carrv a good sized fortune up to the treasurer's office in the eapitol, and every six months thereafter they will be forced to repeat that ordeal. There are some advantages In not owning a machine. The law though is a good one as It will draw money for road purposes from those who use the highways to a greater extent than any other class and who are sufficiently prosperous to contribute the tax without feeling the drain on their resources. |