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years, however, a common administration of government and
provincial road matters has been introduced by agreement in
most of the counties (15 out of 18). The county engineers
are appointed by the department after nomination by the county
council, and superintend also the government roads, while the
central administration, on the other hand, has some control over
the cross roads.
The keeping of the roads in proper repair is still done in
most cases by the farmers under the supervision of the «lensmand»,
each farm being assigned a piece of road in proportion to its
ground-tax, which is to be provided with gravel, kept practicable
in the winter, etc. Of late years, the districts have to a great extent
taken the maintenance into their own hands, and road-keepers are
appointed to look after them.
In 1850, the total length of road in the country was 10,000
miles, 3,800 miles being main roads. During the half century
since the reform of 1851, the length of road has about been
doubled. The main roads now amount to about 6,000 miles, and
the cross roads to more than 10,000 miles (in 1895, 5,994 and
10,783 miles respectively, 16,777 miles in all).
The cost of making main roads, which in the forties did not
amount to kr. 150,000 annually, has risen to 1.7 million kr. annually
in the years 1890 to 1896. In 1894, the government grant amounted
to kr. 1,374,295. The cost to the counties of road-making, including
cross roads, amounted to kr. 296,974, to the districts kr. 337,290,
to the towns kr. 87,821. The total expenditure on road-making
thus amounted to 2.1 million kr., to which must be added the
expenses of administration. The maintenance of the roads at
the same time cost the government kr. 57,830, the county
corporations kr. 396,117, and the districts kr. 355,185, or kr. 809,132
in all. To this must be added, as far as the districts are
concerned, the direct work performed by the owners of
registered farms. In 1871, this, with a road-length of rather more
than 12,000 miles, was estimated at kr. 1,237,000; and although
since that time a considerable amount has been transferred to the
direct expenditure of the districts, it cannot now, when the
road-length [[** sjk bindestrek]] has been increased by one half, be put lower than at about
1.5 million kr. The total annual expenditure of the country on
public roads is thus brought up to 4 ½ million kr. in round figures,
or rather more than kr. 2 per head.
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