DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. I 57 



THE SHORE DRIVE. 

 CHAPTER 931. 



AN ACT to Amend 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 Coterminols with those of said 

 County ; and Also Providing the Means of Payment 

 Therefor, and Maintenance Thereof, and Creating a 

 Department of Parks for Said County. 



Accepted by the City. 



Became a law June 5, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. 

 Passed, three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of Neiu York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section I. Section four 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, construction and 

 maintenance of a public driveway and parkway, and for the acquisi- 

 tion 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 thereof, and creating a depart- 

 ment of parks for said county," is hereby amended so as to read as 

 follows : 



Section IV. Immediately upon the final confirmation and filing of 

 the plan and report hereinbefore provided for, the said commission 

 provided for in the first section of this act shall prepare plans and 

 specifications for the development, laying out, ornamenting or 

 otherwise improving the property set forth and designated in said 

 plan and report; and upon the completion thereof the same shall be 

 certified to by said commission, and filed in the Department of Parks 

 in said city, and the said plan and report shall be final and con- 

 clusive as to the matters therein set forth. In order to secure the 

 progress of the work required by this act, such commission, before 

 the completion of such final plans and specifications, may make and 

 file partial plans and specifications, which may be corrected and 

 modified from time to time as they may elect. The development, 



