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REPORT OF THE 



or avenues as run through or intersect the same; and to pass and 

 enforce laws and ordinances for the proper use, regulation and Gov- 

 ernment thereof; and for all the purposes of such government man- 

 agement and direction of public use, such parts of said roads or ave- 

 nues as pass through or intersect said circles shall be deemed to be 

 a part of Prospect Park; and it shall be under like control and man- 

 agement as said parkway; and the maintenance of said Ocean Park- 

 way and Concourse shall be a charge upon the City of Brooklvn \nd 

 the said Department of Parks shall have, subject to the limitation 

 aforesaid, full and exclusive power. 



i. To lay out, regulate, improve and maintain the public parks of 

 said city, and Ocean Parkway and the Concourse aforesaid, and also 

 Eastern Parkway, in the Ninth and Twenty-fourth Wards of said city 

 and to govern, manage and direct the same and the public use thereof' 



2. To make ordinances, rules and regulations for their proper 

 management and government. 



3. To appoint such engineers, surveyors, clerks and other officers 

 and such police force as they may deem expedient, and to prescribe 

 and define their respective duties and authority, and to fix and regu- 

 late the compensation to be paid to the several persons so to be em- 

 ployed by them. 



4. To locate, erect and maintain fountains on the said parks or 

 parkways, or either of them, as well as upon the streets and avenues 

 which form the boundaries thereof, or intersect the same- to erect 

 and maintain iron and other fences around the said parks ■ to flae 

 and reflag the sidewalks of said streets, roads or avenues on the 

 side which is adjacent to the said parks ; to increase the width thereof 

 and to set and reset curb and gutter stones, shade trees and lamp 

 posts thereon. ] 



5. To determine the particular location of any railroad track 

 which is now or may hereafter be placed upon such road street or 

 avenue, or upon any road, street or avenue under the control of said 

 department ; provided, however, that no such railroad track or tracks 

 shall be placed upon any such road, street or avenue without the con- 

 sent thereto of the Commissioner of Parks. 



6. To seize and impound any cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses 

 geese or other animals found running at large upon any of the public 

 parks or parkways of the City of Brooklyn ; to impose a penalty not 

 exceeding five dollars, with reasonable expenses, upon any animal so 

 seized, and to enforce the payment thereof in such a manner as thev 

 shall by ordinance direct. 



7- To let any buildings and the ground belonging to the City 

 ot Brooklyn which may be within the limits of any public park for a 

 term not to exceed one year, or until the same shall be required for 

 public use. n 



