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draw to permit two vehicles to pass, and elsewhere is too nar-
row for safety; and that said bridge carries the main tracks
of said railroad and the rails, frogs and switches of the said
railroad project several inches above the flooring of said
bridge, thereby obstructing the way and making the use of the
said bridge unsafe for vehicles of. any kind; and the use of
said bridge by pedestrians and vehicles is further interrupted
and made more hazardous by the frequent passage of trains,
which occupy the whole bridge space, so that the present bridge
is utterly unsafe and unfit for travel, but nevertheless fur-
nishes the only existing means of access by teams, automobiles
and foot passengers to the island on which Ocean City is built;
and the use of the same bridge by pedestrians, vehicles and
railroad trains, even if the said railroad company will con-
tinue to permit the use of its bridge by the public as hereto-
fore, when not occupied by its own trains, is inconsistent with
a proper regard for the lives and safety of the public, so that
it is imperative that the State highway reaching Ocean City
be made safe for travel and must include a bridge devoted
exclusively to the use of pedestrians and vehicles in crossing
the Sinepuxent Bay; and such a bridge is urgently needed;
now, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the State Roads Commission is hereby authorized
and requested as soon after the passage of this Act as prac-
ticable to build, construct and thereafter maintain, as a part
of the State Roads system, an iron, steel or concrete bridge
across Sinepuxent Bay at Ocean City, in Worcester County, to
connect Ocean City with the State Roads as laid out for
Worcester County and the State Roads system of the Counties
of the State.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 666.

AN ACT to refund to William H. Dowell, late Treasurer of
Calvert County, Maryland, certain money erroneously paid
by him into the State Treasury as State Taxes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is
hereby directed to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer of the