DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. I03 



I also send you a notice to be served upon the property owners. 

 A full description of each parcel by metes and bounds should be 

 contained in each notice, and reasonable notice should be given 

 — at least thirty days. These notices should be served wherever 

 possible upon the owner personally, and great care taken so that 

 the law may be complied with and the rights of all the owners 

 protected in the fullest manner. 



" Yours very truly, 



"CHARLES H. HYDE." 



Application was then made to the Mayor, under the Act, and 

 the following consent was obtained : 



SUPREME COURT. 



In the Matter 

 of the 



Application of the County of 



Kings to acquire title to the 



land within the lines of the 



Eastern Parkway and Buffalo 



Avenue, as the same are laid 



out pursuant to chapter 1 77 



of the Laws of 1891, as amend- 

 ed by Chapter 444 of the Laws 



of 1895. 

 J 



The County of Kings having on August 6, 1895, made applica- 

 tion to the Supreme Court for the appointment of commissioners 

 to appraise the compensation to be made to the owners and per- 

 sons interested in the land within the lines of the Eastern Park- 

 way and Buffalo avenue, as the same are laid out pursuant to 

 Chapter 177 of the Laws of 1891, as amended by Chapter 444 of 

 the Laws of 1895, and an order having been made herein by the 

 Supreme Court, and duly entered in the office of the Clerk of 

 Kings County on August 7, 1895, appointing Edward J. O'Flyn, 

 Francis Gross and William Walton such commissioners of 

 appraisal, and the said commissioners having taken their oath 

 of office, and the said law having been amended by Chapter 990 

 of the Laws of 1896, which provides that the City of Brooklyn 

 may at its option, to be exercised by the head of the Department 

 of Parks, with the consent of the Mayor, without any suit or pro- 

 ceeding for that purpose, enter upon, use, occupy and enjoy the 



