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upon such terms and conditions and for such period as 

 may be mutually agreed upon; or to enter into an agree- 

 ment in writing with said commissioners for the joint 

 care, control, or preservation of open spaces within or 

 adjacent to such city or town; and the metropolitan 

 park commissioners may in like manner transfer the 



care, control, and preservation of any open space con- 

 trolled by them to any city or town within the said 

 metropolitan park district, with the consent of such 

 city or town and upon such terms and for such period 

 as may be mutually agreed upon." Rhode Island, Pub- 

 lic Laws, Chapter 1466, April 23, 1907, Section 6. 



Comments on Modern Legislation as Affecting Scope of Activities. 



The laws which have been quoted show something of the powers which 

 are entrusted to park authorities in a number of cities. Nothing reflects 

 more truly the tremendous expansion of the functions of modern park 

 departments than a comparison of the statement of the scope of activities 

 in some of the older and newer legislations. This expansion has been espe- 

 cially marked in two fields of activities organized recreation and forestry. 



A few references to modern laws stating the scope of the activities of 

 the modern park department follow: 



1. Fort Worth, Texas. Chapter VIII, Section 4, Charter of Fort 

 Worth (see pages 438, 439). Fort Worth also has a separate recreation 

 department with broad powers (Chapter XIX, Section 4). These two sections 

 taken together constitute a most comprehensive statement of a scope of 

 modern park and recreation department. 



2. Birmingham, Alabama. General Acts of Alabama, 1923, part of 

 Sections 2 and 6 (see pages 435, 436). This is an excellent statement of the 

 scope of activities of a department in which the functions of a park depart- 

 ment and a recreation department are unified in one body. 



3. Detroit, Michigan. Charter of the City of Detroit, Chapter IX, 

 Section 5 (Park and Boulevard Departments) ; Chapter XVIII, Section 5: 

 (Recreation Department). (Pages 431-433.) 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 



"Organization of a Park Commission," Bulletin 

 No. 7, February, 1911, American Association of Park 

 Superintendents. A symposium by various park execu- 



tives concerning the park board or commission type of 

 governing parks. Contains also a brief discussion of 

 the government of parks in commission governed cities. 

 "Park Governments of Chicago." An inquiry into 

 their organization and methods of administration. 



Report prepared by the Chicago Bureau of Public 

 Efficiency. Published by the Bureau, 1911. 



"Park Department Organization," F. L. Olmsted, 

 Jr. Landscape Architecture, July 1914, Vol. 4, pages 

 150-166. 



"Organization of a Park System," Olmsted Brothers- 

 (in their report on a proposed park system for Dayton,. 

 Ohio, 1911, pages 6-12). 



