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ized to be» taken by the first section of this act as a public park and 

 place, are hereby pledged for the payment of its bonds to be issued 

 by virtue hereof. 



§ 14. In order to pay the interest upon the bonds hereby author- 

 ized to be issued by said city, there shall be added to the general tax, 

 for the city of Brooklyn at large, in the year eighteen hundred and 

 sixty-two, and yea*rly thereafter, and levied and collected therein, 

 as hereinafter specified, such sum of money in each of said years 

 shall be sufficient to pay the interest upon the bonds issued by virtue 

 of this act ; and from and after the year eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 five, there shall be added to the general tax for the city of Brooklyn 

 at large, and levied and collected, as aforesaid, in addition to any 

 amount so required, to pay the interest upon said bonds, a sum 

 equal to one-half of one per cent, upon the total amount of bonds 

 which shall have been issued in pursuance of this act ; and from and 

 after the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, there shall be in 

 like manner levied and collected, in each year, and in addition to the 

 amount required to pay the interest aforesaid, a sum equal to one 

 per cent, upon the total amount of bonds which have been issued in 

 pursuance of this act ; and from and after the year eighteen hundred 

 and eighty-five, there shall be in like manner annually levied and 

 collected, in addition to the interest aforesaid, a sum which, together 

 with the amounts above required to be levied and collected, and the 

 accumulations thereof, will, with its accumulations, be adequate to 

 pay and discharge the bonds to be issued under this act by the 

 maturity thereof, which said several sums shall be, from time to 

 time, and each year, paid over to the Commissioners of the Sinking 

 Fund of the city of Brooklyn, to be held and managed by them, 

 and shall be applied to the payment of the interest upon said bonds 

 as it shall become payable, and to the full and final redemption of 

 said bonds, and for no other purpose. And it shall be the duty of 

 the Mayor and Comptroller of the said city to estimate and ascer- 

 tain the amounts required to be so added to the general tax, by 

 virtue of this section, and to transmit a statement of the same in 

 each year to the Board of Supervisors of the county of Kings, in 

 time to have such amount included in the general tax of said city, 

 for that year ; and it shall be the duty of said Supervisors to cause 

 such amount to be included in such general tax. And said Super- 

 visors shall also annually provide by tax for the payment of the 

 principal and interest of the bonds to be issued by the said county 

 of Kings, by virtue of this act. And in making the levy of taxes 

 in this section prescribed, the said Supervisors shall so apportion 

 and levy the same, as that all sums of money which shall be levied 

 for the purpose of paying principal and interest of the bonds which 

 may have been issued on account of the purchase, improvements and 

 ornamentation of the lands comprising the said Prospect Park, shall 

 be levied and collected exclusively upon and from the taxable prop- 

 erty within the first twelve wards of said city. 



§ 15. The Commissioners appointed by virtue of section four of 

 this act shall have authority to employ surveyors and to use any 

 map on file or belonging to said city, and to cause maps to be made 



