[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] By the present charter the trustees have no power to order or enforce the construction of a sewer in any part of the corporation, unless the same is requested by a petition of one half of the property holders along the line of the proposed improvement. Hence any unwillingness on the part of the tax-pay-ers of a street or avenue may interfere with or com-pletely block any attempt to make an improvement however necessary the same should be to the public welfare in the way of salubrity. The establishment of an efficient Hoard of Health is also rendered impossible by the present weak and miserable charier. The theory of making a Hoard of Health of the president and trustees of the village is OSSINING. 333 a sorry farce, and has always resulted in inefficiency and absolute neglect of all sanitary authority and action. This ideal Hoard of Health has always ignored the town Hoard of Health, and thus deprived the vil-lagers of any benefit that would otherwise have been bestowed by this organization. A further discussion of this subject is not admissible in this place.