16 RErORT OF THE 



In connection with the foregoing, the following resolution 

 was referred by the Common Council to the appropriate com- 

 mittee for consideration and report: 



Resolved, That the Mayor, Comptroller and City Clerk be and 

 are hereby authorized and directed to make and issue bonds of 

 the city, known as Park bonds, to the amount of two hundred 

 thousand (200,000) dollars, or as much thereof as may be neces- 

 sary for the purposes of the act of the Legislature of the State 

 of New York, passed June 16, 1-S77, entitled "An Act to enable 

 the city of Brooklyn to raise further means for the improve- 

 ment and sale of certain portions of Prospect Park in said 

 city," the proceeds of the sale of said bonds to be used for the 

 grading, draining, regulating and otherwise improving the lands 

 of Prospect Park authorized to be sold by chapter 373 of the 

 Laws of 1870, and the act amendatory thereof — said bonds to 

 be of the usual form of such bonds, and payable out of the sale of 

 the Park lands so authorized to be sold, in one year from date 

 thereof; and pay from the moneys arising from such sale 

 of bonds the several persons employed in performing the 

 work such amounts as may be certified as due them by tin 1 cer- 

 tificate of the Brooklyn Park Commissioners, and upon the 

 usual vouchers. 



Independent of the public discussion had before the Com- 

 mittee appointed by your honorable body as to the policy of 

 improving this property with a view of adding to its attractive- 

 ness and desirability when it shall be offered for sale, some 

 action of the nature of legislative authorization will be neces- 

 sary. The plan proposed is to secure permission from the 

 Legislature to add to the property now for sale a tract of land 

 extending along Flatbush avenue from the reservoir to the city 

 line and fronting upon the Park. This entire frontage, exclu- 

 sive of the land reserved for streets through it, having a depth 

 of 250 feet, was reserved for public uses which, it was thought, 

 under certain circumstances, it might be favorably appropriated 

 to. Further reflection as to the probable needs of any portion 

 of this property for such purpose makes it appeal' remote, and 



