DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 23I 



LAWS OF 1896. 



There were but few bills affecting the interests of the Depart- 

 ment of Parks passed by the Legislature during the year 1896, and 

 such as were passed were merely amendatory of preceding acts of 

 the Legislature. They have been introduced in the previous pages 

 of this report, where they were explanatory of the work done. 

 Summarized, they are as follows : 



Chapter 230. — An Act to amend chapter six hundred and forty 

 of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five, entitled " An Act 

 in relation to the care, custody, control and improvement of certain 

 highways in the County of Kings, and to provide means for the im- 

 provement thereof." 



Chapter 804. — 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, 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 

 Department of Parks for said county," as amended by chapter nine 

 hundred and thirty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety- 

 five. 



Chapter 805. — An Act to amend chapter four hundred and sixty- 

 one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled "An Act 

 for the establishment and 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 author- 

 ize said county to provide for the means therefor by the issue of 

 bonds," as amended by chapter four hundred and seventy-four of 

 the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five. 



Chapter 857. — An Act in relation to the construction and man- 

 agement of the public driveway and parkway in the city of Brook- 

 lyn, authorized and acquired under and in pursuance of the pro- 

 visions 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 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 coterminous with 



