SUPPLEMENTAL ORDER TO READ & CO.

STATE OF NEW YORK.

EXECUTIVe chamber,

TO READ & Co., 34 Beaver street, New York City:

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Whereas, On the 20th day of July, 1883, a certain order was by me issued and to you directed, in and by which order a certain business, being the manufacture and storing of fertilizers, as conducted by you in the county of Queens, was declared to be a nuisance, and you were required to. change the manner of conducting said business in the particulars in said order specified;

Now, therefore, I do hereby order and direct that said. order be modified by substituting in the place of the directions in said order contained, as to the conduct of the business therein mentioned, and after the word "changed" the following words: "in these particulars; that from and after the service of a copy of this order, no animal matter shall be used in any way in the manufacture of fertilizers at or upon the premises where the said business is carried on, unless it be so used in a dry state, and without the admixture of acids, and that all such animal matter stored or remaining upon said premises, shall be kept covered, dry and disinfected, and that in any event the manufacture of said fertilizers or the storing of materials therefor, shall not become a nuisance."

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Given under my hand and the privy seal of the State, at the Capitol, in the city of Albany, this 27th day of November, 1883.

By the Governor:

GROVER CLEVELAND.

DANIEL S. LAMONT,

Private Secretary.

APPENDIX.

STATEMENT

OF

Pardons, Commutations of Sentence

AND

Reprieves Granted by the Governor

DURING THE YEAR 1883.

PARDONS.

January 18.

Winchester M. Clark.

Sentenced July 16, 1880; county, New York; crime, grand larceny; term, four years; prison, Kings County Penitentiary.

This convict was pardoned upon the sole ground that he had a very short time to live, being in the last stage of consumption. His near relatives, who were people of respectability, urged that he might be allowed to die at home, surrounded with such comforts as they alone could give. The evidence presented to me as to the prospect of his early demise was fully sustained by the prison physician, and inasmuch as he had served the greater portion of his time, allowing commutation for good conduct, I determined to pardon him, believing that the ends of justice would not suffer. The pardon was recommended by the District. Attorney who prosecuted the indictment.

February 3, 1883. Michael Callihan. Sentenced November 10, 1873; county, Monroe; crime, rape; term, seventeen years; prison, State Asylum for Insane Criminals, transferred from Auburn Prison.

This pardon was granted on the sole ground that the convict had but a short time to live, and his sister, who was entirely respectable and possessed a good home, urged that she might he allowed to take him there to die. The records of the prison showed that his conduct had been good. At the time of his pardon he was in the State Asylum for Insane Criminals. The Superintendent of that institution. certified that his mind was entirely lost, that no harm could