ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES — ORDER 57
instance, to railroads entering New York city, to railroads operating
within the city, to gas companies, electric companies and the like.
Many commissions have been created by legislative enactment in
this and other States in the past, and it has been the almost universal
experience that however excellent the reports of such commissions
might be, if they were made up of men outside the Legislature, the
Legislature paid little or no heed to them. I therefore recommend that
you create a Joint Committee of the Senate and Assembly, to
investigate the subject in full, and to report to the next Legislature a
proper scheme of taxation.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
PUBLIC HEALTH—ORDER DIRECTING ABATEMENT OF
NUISANCES IN SARATOGA LAKE
STATE OF NEW YORK
Executive Chamber
WHEREAS, A petition signed by many residents and property
owners in the vicinity of Saratoga Lake was heretofore presented to
me, alleging the existence of public nuisances in the vicinity of said
lake, caused by the discharge of sewage, domestic waste and
manufacturing refuse into said lake, whereby the health and comfort of
the people of the community were jeopardized and endangered; and,
WHEREAS, On the 10th day of March 1899, I did, as Governor of
the State of New York, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 661 of
the Laws of 1893, require, order and direct the State Board of Health
to examine into the