UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO State of New-York. No. 76. IN SENATE, MARCH 6, 1850. REPORT Of the committee on claims on the bill in relation to the Syracuse Coarse Salt company. Mr. Schoonmaker, from the committee on claims, to which was recommitted the bill entitled "An act to pay the Syracuse Coarse Salt Company for land taken to abate a nuisance," together with the petition of said company and accompanying papers, REPORTS: 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, for 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. It was supposed that the only feasible and effectual way of abating the nuisance was to cover such low land with earth to the depth of [Senate, No. 76.] 1 [u. n.] |