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§ 2G. The office of either of said Commissioners who shall not 

 attend the meetings of the Board for three successive months, after 

 having been duly notified of said meetings, without reason therefor 

 satisfactory to said Board, or without leave of absence from said 

 Board, may be by said Board declared vacant. 



§ 27. Real or personal property may be granted, devised, be- 

 queathed or conveyed to the said city of Brooklyn, for the purposes of 

 improvement or ornamentation of said park, or for the establishment 

 or maintenance within the limits of said park, of museums, zoological 

 or other gardens, collections of natural history, observatories, or 

 works of art, upon such trusts and conditions as may be prescribed 

 by the grantors or donors thereof, and agreed to by the Mayor and 

 Common Council of said city ; and all property so devised, granted, 

 bequeathed or conveyed, and the rents, issues, profits and income 

 thereof shall be subject to the exclusive management, direction and 

 control of the Commissioners of the park. 



§ 28. It shall be lawful for said Board of Commissioners, at any 

 meeting thereof, duly convened, to pass such ordinances as they may 

 deem necessary for the regulation, use and government of the park 

 under their charge, not inconsistent with the ordinances and regula- 

 tions of the city of Brooklyn, or with the provisions of this act ; such 

 ordinances shall, immediately upon their passage, be published for 

 ten days in two daily papers published in said city. 



§ 29. All persons offending against such ordinances shall be 

 deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be punished, on conviction 

 before any court of competent jurisdiction in the county of Kings, by 

 a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and in default of payment, by im- 

 prisonment not exceeding thirty days. 



§ 30. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby 

 repealed. 



§ 31. This act shall take effect immediately. 



On the passage of this law, the Common Council of the 

 city of Brooklyn passed a resolution endorsing the action of the 

 Legislature as being in accordance with the generally" ex- 

 pressed wishes of the citizens. 



Under the provisions of this act of the Legislature, the 

 undersigned Commissioners named therein, formally organized 

 the board by the election of James S. T. Stkanahan, as Presi- 

 dent, and R. H. Thompson, as Secretary. 



The location of Prospect Park having been selected and 

 fixed by law, to the undersigned were confined its control and 

 management, with power to lay it out and regulate it. In 

 entering upon the discharge of duties so honorable and so 

 important, the Commissioners determined that the whole sub- 

 ject, in all its general aspects, and in all its details, should re- 

 ceive their most careful and deliberate consideration ; and, 



