New York (State). Legislature
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Excerpt from Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Vol. 3: Seventy-Third Session, 1850; No. 76 to 118, Inclusive That the committee have had the same under consideration, and find that in January, 1849, application was made to the Legislature of this State, in behalf of the mayor and common council of the city of Syracuse, (hr the purpose of abating a nuisance arising, as was alleged, under the following circumstances: In lowering a dam across the Onondaga creek, to abate the nuisance of a pond of water, a portion of low land belonging to the State contiguous to the salt springs had been laid bare, together with lands belonging to other owners. It was feared that the return of warm weather would cause an exhalation of nuisance from such low land, which would be fraught with great danger to the health of the citizens of Syracuse, particularly in case of the anticipated invasion by Asiatic cholera. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.