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 5. It is further recommended that the Bureau of Public Roads be designated as a central agency to draft and furnish to the several state highway departments, as may be requested by them, any further necessary signs in harmony with those recommended by this present report, and that such additional signs shall become thereupon a part of the uniform series, to be installed and appropriately used in the for same manner and under the same conditions as herein recommended the present signs.

6. It is further recommended, in order to increase the familiarity of the traveling public with the standard signs, and thereby promote the safe use of highways, that the standard signs be recommended to all state highway departments for general use where appropriate on all roads under the jurisdiction of those several departments.

7. It is further recommended that the Department of Agriculture, which is entrusted with the administration of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat. 212) and earlier acts of Congress related thereto, adopt the policy of admitting as a part of the estimates for Federal Aid Road Construction the cost of procuring and erecting the standard signs and markers on all federal aid projects current, on all such projects previously constructed under the said Federal Highway Act. (42 Stat. 212), and on all parts of the designated routes open and safe for travel.

8. It is further recommended that the Association of State Highway Officials be entrusted with the designating and adoption of a permanent interstate highway and boundary monument, and that the erection of the monument be admitted as a part of the construction cost of federal aid projects in the same manner and under the same conditions as recommended above for signs.

9. It is further recommended that through the highway departments of the several States the use of any other distinctive markers, except those required administratively by the several States, shall be discouraged on the designated routes, and that the use of the shield as a marker be limited to the United States Highways.

10. It is further recommended that each State, in which such authority does not now exist, be urged to empower its highway department to provide a uniform system of designating, marking and signing all roads under State jurisdiction.

11. It is further recommended that this report with its map and exhibits be transmitted by you, and if you so elect, with your approval, to the American Association of State Highway Officials and to all of the state highway departments for their information and accord in all matters pertinent to this report that affect the designated routes.