FEDERAL AID IN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION a 
pended, which sum is composed of $27,800,000, the remainder of the sum of 
$75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1927, by paragraph 1 of the act approved February 12, 1925, and $43,200,000, 
part of the sum of $75,000,000 authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1928, by paragraph 1 of the act approved June 22, 1926. 
FLOOD RELIEF, VERMONT, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND KENTUCKY 
For the relief of the following States as a contribution in aid from the 
United States, induced by the extraordinary conditions of necessity and emer- 
gency resulting from the unusually serious financial loss to such States through 
the damage to or destruction of roads and bridges by the floods of 1927, 
imposing a public charge against the property of said States beyond their 
reasonable capacity to bear, and without acknowledgement of any liability on 
the part of the United States in connection with the restoration of such local 
improvements, namely: Vermont, $2,654,000; New Hampshire, $653,300; Ken- 
tucky, $1,889,904; in all, $5,197,294, to be immediately available and to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the sums hereby appropriated shall 
be expended by the State highway departments of the respective States with 
the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture for the restoration, including 
relocation, of roads and bridges so damaged or destroyed, in such manner as 
to give the largest measure of permanent relief, under rules and regulations 
to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided further, That the 
amount herein appropriated for each State shall be available when such State 
shall have or make available a like sum from State funds for the purposes 
contained herein. 
Approved, May 16, 1928. 
AMENDMENT OF MAY 21, 1928 
[Pueric—No. 458—701r CONGRESS] 
[S. 1341] 
An Act To amend the act entitled “An act to provide that the United States shall aid 
the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes,” approved 
July 11, 1916, as amended and supplemented, and for other purposes 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That section 11 of the Federal high- 
way act, approved November 9, 1921 (Forty-second Statutes at Large, page 
212), as amended or supplemented, be further amended by adding at the end 
of the second paragraph thereof the following : 
“And provided further, That in the case of any State containing unappro- 
priated public lands and nontaxable Indian lands, individual and tribal, exceed- 
ing 5 per centum of the total area of all lands in the State in which the 
population, as shown by the latest available Federal census, does not exceed 
ten per square mile of area, the Secretary of Agriculture, upon request from 
the State highway department of such State, may increase the share payable 
by the United States to any percentage up to and including the whole cost on 
projects on the primary system of Federal-aid highways and on projects on 
the secondary system when the latter is a continuation of a route on the primary 
system or directly connects with a route on the primary system of an adjoining 
State, but such State shall allocate and expend during the same fiscal year upon 
some other project or projects on the Federal-aid system, under the direction 
of the Secretary of Agriculture, the amount it would have been required to 
expend upon such project.” 
Ske. 2. In every case in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agricul 
ture and the highway department of the State in question, it shall be practicable 
to plant and maintain shade trees along the highways authorized by said act 
of November 9, 1921, and by this act, the planting of such trees shall be included 
in the specifications provided in section 8 of said act of November 9, 1921. 
Swe. 8. The system of Federal-aid highways on which Federal funds may be 
expended in any State may exceed 7 per centum of the total highway mileage 
of such State by the mileage of roads on said system within national forest. 
Indian, or other Federal reservations therein. 
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