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be awarded therefor, and said Commissioners may make special re- 

 ports in relation to any matters so agreed upon ; and any such special 

 report may be filed, and proceedings may be had to confirm the same, 

 and the same may be confirmed in the same manner and with like 

 effect as is provided herein in relation to other reports of said Com- 

 missioners ; and upon the confirmation of any such special report, the 

 amount of the awards thus confirmed shall be paid in the same man- 

 ner as if such awards had been made in a general report of said Com- 

 missioners, and duly confirmed. 



§ 10. Before proceeding to discharge any of their duties, the 

 Commissioners shall respectively take and subscribe an oath in 

 writing, before some officer, authorized by law to administer oaths, 

 honestly and faithfully to discharge the duties which shall devolve 

 upon them in pursuance of this act, which oath shall be filed in the 

 office of the Clerk of the county of Kings. Said Commissioners 

 shall proceed, as soon as may be after their appointment, to dis- 

 charge the duties of their trust, and to make and complete their 

 estimates, and awards and reports, as herein-before provided ; and 

 every estimate, award and report so made shall be signed by at 

 least a majority of said Commissioners, and filed in the office of the 

 Clerk of the county of Kings, and notice thereof given to the Coun- 

 sel of the Corporation of said city of Brooklyn. Within twenty 

 days after receiving such notice of the filing of any report of said 

 Commissioners, said Corporation Counsel shall give notice by pub- 

 lication for ten days in two daily papers of said city, that he will at 

 the then next ensuing Special Term of the Court aforesaid, and at 

 the time and place to be specified in such notice, present such report 

 for confirmation ; and if said Corporation Counsel shall not, within 

 the time above prescribed, cause such report to be presented for 

 confirmation, then such notice may be given, and said report may 

 be presented for confirmation, as above prescribed, by any party 

 whose lands are to be taken, and to whom compensation is estimated 

 and awarded by such report ; and thereupon all such proceedings as 

 are provided for in the fifth section of an act entitled, " An act to 

 provide for the opening of Washington Park, on Fort Greene, in 

 the city of Brooklyn," passed April twenty-seventh, eighteen hun- 

 dred and forty-seven, shall be had for the confirmation of said 

 report, or for the revisal and correction thereof, until a report shall 

 be made or returned in the premises, which the Court shall confirm ; 

 and any such report, when so confirmed by the said Court, shall be 

 filed in the office of the Clerk of the county of Kings, and shall be 

 final and conclusive upon the said city of Brooklyn, and upon the 

 owners of and persons interested in the lands and premises men- 

 tioned in said report, and also upon all other persons whomsoever ; 

 and upon the confirmation of any such report, and upon payment 

 being made to the owners of the lands in such report mentioned, or 

 upon their assent thereto by deed duly executed, the said lands shall 

 vest forever in the said city of Brooklyn for the uses and purposes 

 in this act mentioned ; and whenever and as often as the title shall 

 have been perfected in said city to the lands embraced in the park 

 and public place provided for in the first section of this act, the 



