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government of a public park or parks in the County of Kings, or 

 adjacent thereto, and providing that the same shall be a public 

 work of the County of Kings, and to authorize said county to 

 provide for the means therefor by the issue of bonds,' " which 

 act is known as Chapter 474 of the Laws of 1895, and to which 

 act and the provisions thereof your petitioner begs leave to refer 

 with like force and effect as if the same were set forth at length 

 herein. 



5. That as your petitioner is informed and believes, pursuant 

 to the provisions of the said act, as amended prior to the first 

 day of February, 1896, the County Treasurer of Kings County 

 had issued and sold bonds of the County of Kings, in accordance 

 with the provisions of the said act, and the money raised from 

 the said bonds had been paid to the said Frank Squier, as said 

 Commissioner, as aforesaid, as the same had been realized, who 

 had deposited the same to his credit in such banks of the City of 

 Brooklyn as he had selected, and that on or about the first day 

 of February, 1896, there was then in his possession and under the 

 control of said Frank Squier and deposited by him as aforesaid, 

 being the proceeds of the said bonds, the sum of $490,61 43^. 



6. That on or about the first day of July, 1895, the Board of 

 Supervisors of the County of Kings adopted a resolution, a copy 

 of which is hereto annexed, and is entitled, "An Act in relation 

 to the public works of the County of Kings, and to regulate em- 

 ployment thereon, pursuant to Chapter 686 of the Laws of 1892, 

 known as the COUNTY Law, and the acts amendatory thereof, 

 and in conformity with Section 9 of Article V. of the Constitu- 

 tion." 



7. That subsequently to the first day of February, 1896, and 

 prior to the commencement of these proceedings, your petitioner 

 demanded of the said Frank Squier, that he should pay over to 

 him the said amount remaining in his hands and under his con- 

 trol, deposited by him as aforesaid, being the proceeds of said 

 bonds, to wit : the said sum of $490,6 I4 T V<7- That the said Frank 

 Squier has refused to turn over the same until the effect of said 

 acts and said resolution has been judicially determined and is 

 duly in the premises defined. 



8. Wherefore, your petitioner prays that a peremptory writ 

 of mandamus issue out of and under the seal of this Court as 

 prayed for in the annexed notice of motion, and that he have 

 such other and further relief as may be just. 



(Signed) TIMOTHY L. WOODRUFF, 



Commissioner. 



