DEPARTMENT OF TARES. 6L 



REPORT 



OF THE 



Department of Parks 



FOR 189 2. 



Department of Parks, i 

 Room 4, City Hal], 

 Brooklyn, January 31, 1893. ^ 



To the Honorable the Common Council. 

 Gentlemen: — 



I herewith furnish your Honorable Body with a full Re- 

 port of my proceedings for the year 1892, embracing a de- 

 tailed statement of receipts and expenditures for that time. 



The Commissioner of the Department of Parks would 

 respectfully report that the Board of Estimate appropri- 

 ated for the year 1892, $387,510 for Public Parks and Park- 

 ways and $3,800 for the Parade Ground. These amounts, 

 together with $135,336.51, for balances over from 1891, 

 made the amount available for Park rmrposes for 1892 

 $526,646.51. Of this amount there have been expended 

 during the year 1892, $395,007.39, leaving a balance of 

 $131,639.12, against which there are sundry bills yet un- 

 settled. 



From the balance, $49,681.62, remaining to the credit of 

 Park Site Improvement Fund, for permanent improvements 



