394 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 3

PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS, MEMORIALS AND
OTHER PAPERS.

The President submitted a petition of the Woman's Board
on Police Matrons (Ella Sutton, secretary) urging the pas-
sage of the Bill authorizing an appropriation for the Mary-
land State Training School for Girls. [Which was read and
referred to the Committee on Finance. ]

Also a petition of the Maryland Association of Ice Cream
Manufacturers, Hygienic Association of Ice Cream Manu-
facturers of Baltimore City, Maryland; Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation, Baltimore Retail Druggists' Association, Baltimore
Confectioners' Association and the Potomac States Master
Bakers' Association, asking for an amendment to the State-
wide Prohibition Bill No. 9, introduced by the Senator from
Garrett county. [Which was read and referred to the Com-
mittee on Temperance. ]

Also a petition of Reuben P. Bailey, Salisbury, Maryland,
against the passage of the State-wide Prohibition Bill. [Which
was read and referred to the Committee on Temperance. ]

SALISBURY, MD., March 2, 1916.
HON. L. ATWOOD BENNETT,
Annapolis, Maryland,

DEAR MR. BENNETT:

We are writing you in behalf of the Bill presented by Sena-
tor Harrison, regarding the construction of a concrete bridge
to cross the Sinepuxent Bay, located in East Berlin District,
Worcester county, State of Maryland. The bridge to be built
and maintained by the State of Maryland.

As we understood the matter, the construction cost of the
bridge is to be between fifty and seventy-live thousand dollars.
We are in favor of the Bill and earnestly solicit your co-opera-
tion and support in this connection.

Our reasons for taking this action are respectfully sub-
mitted, as follows:

1. The bridge used by the public at present is owned and
maintained by the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Rail-
way Company. It is approximately 900 feet in length, 14 feet
in width, with one track 5 feet wide used by the Baltimore,
Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway Company. As stated above,
the bridge is 14 feet in width, the track thereon 5 feet. The
rail consumes approximately 1 foot; the fence on either side
of the bridge consumes about the same distance, which leaves a
space on either side of the rail, between the rail and fence, of
3 feet. It is necessary for all traffic to be suspended while