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as may he necessary; and said Commissioners may be allowed a 

 compensation of three dollars per day for their time actually em- 

 ployed in discharging their duties as such Commissioners; and all 

 such compensation, and the necessary expenses of the Commissioners 

 in discharging their duties, shall be allowed on taxation by the Court 

 aforesaid, and paid by said city of Brooklyn, and shall be added to 

 and form a part of the cost of the said park. 



§ 10. The said Prospect Park shall be under the exclusive con- 

 trol and management of a Board of Commissioners, to consist of 

 seven persons, who shall be named and styled " The Commissioners 

 of Prospect Park ; " a majority of said Board of Commissioners in 

 office for the time being shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 

 of business, and no action of said Board shall be final or binding, unless 

 it shall receive the approval of a majority of the said Board, whose 

 names shall be recorded in its minutes. 



§ 17. James S. T. Stranahan, Thomas H. Rodman, E. W. Fiske, 

 R. H. Thompson, Thomas G. Talmage, Stephen Haynes, and Corne- 

 lius J. Sprague, are hereby appointed, and shall constitute the first 

 Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park ; they shall hold office as 

 such Commissioners for three years from the passage of this act. 

 No member of said Board shall receive any compensation for his 

 services, except the President or Treasurer, but each Commissioner 

 shall nevertheless be entitled to receive for his personal expenses, in 

 visiting and superintending said park, a sum not exceeding three 

 hundred dollars per annum. In case of a vacancy, the same may be 

 filled by the remaining members of the Board, for the residue of the 

 term then vacant ; and all vacancies occasioned by expiration of the 

 terms of office shall be filled by the Mayor, by and with the advice 

 and consent of the Common Council of said city. 



§ 18. The said Board shall have full and exclusive power to 

 govern, manage and direct the said park ; to lay out and regulate 

 the same ; to pass ordinances for the regulation and government 

 thereof; to appoint such engineers, surveyors, clerks and other offi- 

 cers, except a police force, as may be necessary ; to prescribe and 

 define their respective duties, and authority ; to fix the amount of 

 their compensation ; and generally in regard to said park, they shall 

 possess all the power and authority now by law conferred on, or 

 possessed by the Common Council of said city, in respect to the 

 public squares and places in said city. 



§ 19. It shall be a misdemeanor for any Commissioner to be 

 directly or indirectly, in any way pecuniarily interested in any con- 

 tract or work of any kind whatever, connected with said park, and 

 it shall be the duty of any Commissioner or other person, who may 

 have any knowledge or information of the violation of this provi- 

 sion, forthwith to report the same to the Mayor of the city of 

 Brooklyn, who shall present the facts of the case to any Judge of 

 the Supreme Court of the Second Judicial District. Such Judge 

 shall hear, in a summary manner, such Commissioner in relation 

 thereto, and any evidence he may offer, and if, after such hearing, he 

 shall be satisfied of the truth thereof, and shall so certify to the 

 Mayor, he shall immediately remove the Commissioner thus offend- 

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