DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 1 47 



EASTERN PARKWAY EXTENSION. 



CHAPTER 444. 



AN ACT to Amend Chapter One Hundred and Seventy-seven 

 of the Laws of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-one, 

 entited "An Act to Widen, Extend, Lay Out and Open 

 and to Improve Certain Streets in the City of Brook- 

 lyn and the Village of Flatbush," and also to Amend 

 Chapter Seven Hundred and Fifty-eight of the Laws 

 of Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-four. 



Accepted by the City. 



Became a law April 27, T895, with the approval of the Governor. 

 Passed, three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of N~ew York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section I. Section two of chapter one hundred and seventy-seven 

 of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to 

 widen, extend, lay out and open and to improve certain streets in the 

 City of Brooklyn and the village of Flatbush, is hereby amended so 

 as to read as follows • 



Section II. The Department of Parks of the County of Kings, 

 organized under and in pursuance of the provisions of chapter seven 

 hundred and fifty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 four, entitled "An Act to provide for the selection, laying out, con- 

 struction and maintenance of a public driveway and parkway, and 

 for the acquisition of riparian rights in connection therewith in any 

 county of this State which contains a city, the population of which 

 city is in excess of eight hundred thousand, and the boundaries of 

 which city are not coterminous with those of said county, and also 

 providing the means of payment therefor and maintenance therefor, 

 and creating a department of parks for said county," is hereby 

 authorized to lay out, open and improve as a public street the 

 Eastern Parkway ; to commence at about the present terminus of 

 said parkway in the city of Brooklyn, and to terminate at or near 

 the present city reservoir property at Ridgewood Heights in said 

 county, on such course between those two points as the officer at 

 the head of said Department of Parks shall in his discretion deter- 

 mine, and to open and improve as a public street Buffalo avenue, as 

 widened by section one of this act. 



Section II. Section three of said act is hereby amended so as to 

 read as follows : 



Section III. Said Department of Parks of the County of Kings 

 is hereby authorized to grade, pave and otherwise improve the said 



