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way the Legislature authorized the expenditure of §50,000, but 

 for the same reason affecting the appropriation for the last two 

 avenues mentioned, the Department lost one-sixth of the total 

 amount, making the total amount available $41,666.68. This im- 

 provement was made necessary because of the constantly increas- 

 ing demand for a thoroughfare over which loaded wagons could 

 pass in the direction of Coney Island. The amount allowed is not 

 sufficient to construct a road all the way to Coney Island, but 

 under a contract that has been made, a little more than two miles 

 of a fine macadamized road will be built. 



The Mayor and the Park Commissioner, by a legislative act, 

 were made a joint commission to superintend the expenditures in 

 connection with the construction of a Museum building for the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Bonds were sold in 

 October last, and the amount realized was $307,297.60. The 

 contract will require the expenditure of $254,763. 



During the year $143.00 was paid to the New Utrecht Water 

 Company for water used on the parkways and in the park lakes 

 during the dry season. The water company was not equal to the 

 demands of the Park, and it will not renew its contract. It will 

 only be a short time before the Department will be compelled to 

 seek a new source of water supply. 



There has been paid by the Department the sum of $890.37 

 toward the assessment for repaying Prospect Park West, from 

 Third street to Fifteenth street. 



The Mansion in Bedford Park, in which is located the prop- 

 erty owned by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 

 was pronounced unsafe by the Building Department and imper- 

 fect in sanitary arrangements by the Health Department. The 

 Mayor, upon the presentation of these facts, directed that $400 

 be taken from the Revenue Fund for the purpose of making the 

 necessary repairs. 



