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and parks as hereinbefore required in connection with the condemnation of 

 the land for the same shall be understood to be the condemnation and 

 perpetual annihilation of all right of the owners of property which shall 

 front on said boulevard, or across which said building-line shall run, to 

 erect any building whatever or any part thereof, between said building-line 

 and said boulevard or parks ; or it may be accomplished by the absolute 

 condemnation of the land, with perpetual and irrevocable free license to use 

 and occupy fifty feet in width of the same for all purposes not otherwise 

 forbidden, except building, as the said board shall be advised may be 

 preferable and most effective. 



Sec. 7. No subdivision into lots of any lands in said town lying within 

 four hundred feet of said boulevard, or either of said parks, shall be valid 

 without the approval of the said Board of Park Commissioners, and they 

 also shall have power to forbid by general order, and to abate any horse- 

 racing, gambling, or offensive or obnoxious or dangerous business or amuse- 

 ments, within four hundred feet of said boulevard and parks, or either of 

 them, and the right to use the said adjacent lands for any such purposes 

 shall be deemed to be included in the assessment and condemnation above 

 provided for. But no lawful business now established and carried on upon 

 said adjacent lands shall be prohibited or abated without a fair valuation and 

 due and full compensation. 



Sec. 8. The said board shall have power to construct all necessary 

 bridges and viaducts, over rivers, water courses and railroads within or on 

 the line of said town, and it shall be their duty to construct the same as soon 

 as the means shall have been provided therefor. 



Sec. 9. The said Board of Park Commissioners are hereby required to 

 make not less than three topographical surveys and examinations of different 

 routes for said boulevards and outlines of parks, with complete elevations, 

 before locating the same, and to invite owners of property to confer with 

 them in regard to donations of land. They are also authorized to receive 

 donations or appropriations of money for the purchase or improvement of 

 the same, and of lands for, or as a part of or to be added to said boulevard 

 or either of said park, upon conditions to be agreed upon. 



Sec. id. None of the main streets and avenues leading to the said 

 boulevard and parks, and which have heretofore been opened and used as 

 country roads or highways, shall ever be closed up or reduced in width, in 

 whole or in part, except streets near the river and its branches, which may be 

 changed for business purposes or greater convenience of access. The Board 

 of Public Works are hereby authorized and required, upon the order of the 

 Common Council, to make and assess, in the manner herein and in the city 

 charter provided, subject to confirmation by the Common Council, the 

 benefits and damages resulting from the extension of the road known as 

 "Whiskey Point Road," as nearly as may be in its present direction, from 

 its present western terminus at Western avenue, to Fulton street, of the 

 width of 120 feet, and from Fulton street to Lake street of the width of 80 

 feet, and tlie widening said road from its present terminus at Western avenue 

 to the new or extended city limits, to the width of 120 feet, with a building 



