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which city are not coterminous 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, as 

 amended by Chapter nine hundred and thirty-one of the Laws 

 of eighteen hundred and ninety-five," together with the Com- 

 missioner of Parks of the City of Brooklyn, shall be a commission 

 to construct and improve the public driveway and parkway 

 authorized and provided for by said Act, in accordance with the 

 plans and specifications for the development, laying out and or- 

 namenting, or otherwise improving the property acquired for 

 such public driveway and parkway hereinbefore certified to by 

 said commission, and filed in the Department of Parks of said 

 city. Said commission shall have power to sell any or all build- 

 ings or structures which may be upon any land purchased for the 

 purpose of said improvement, when in their judgment it will be 

 for the best interests of the city so to do. 



SECTION II. The care, custody and control of such public 

 driveway and parkway shall vest in the commission created by 

 this act, and shall continue therein until the completion of the 

 duties herein conferred upon them, and they shall have power to 

 take possession of any highway or public road, or any part of any 

 highway or public road, included in the plan or report, as pro- 

 vided in section three of the act above referred to, and any lands 

 or premises, including riparian rights purchased or acquired under 

 said act, and they shall have power to determine, fix and alter the 

 grade of any street intersecting said public driveway or parkway at 

 said intersection and for six hundred feet on either side thereof. 

 When it becomes necessary to condemn any land under said act, 

 said land shall, immediately upon the qualification of the com- 

 missioners of estimate appointed by the court, vest in and be 

 under the care, custody and control of the commission created by 

 this act, to a like extent and for the same purposes as other parts 

 of the public driveway and parkway vest and are under its care, 

 custody and control. 



SECTION III. For the purpose of meeting the expense of con- 

 structing and improving said public driveway and parkway, the 

 financial officers of the City of Brooklyn are directed to pay out 

 any money heretofore or hereafter appropriated or set apart for 

 such purpose, in the same manner as other moneys are paid out 

 in said city, upon the certification of the Commissioner of Parks, 

 except that upon the certification of the weekly payrolls, laborers 

 and all other employees payable by day's wages, the said financial 

 officers are directed to pay to said Commissioner of Parks the 

 amounts called for by said payrolls, to be by him paid out to the 

 persons whose names appear thereon. 



