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In pursuance of the recommendations in the foregoing report, 

 the Legislature, on the 17th. day of April, 18G0, passed the fol- 

 lowing act, entitled 



"AN ACT 



To lay out a Public Park and a Parade Ground for the city of 



Brooklyn, and to alter the Commissioner's map of said city. 



Passed April 17th, 1860 — three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly do enact as follows : 



Section 1. All the following tracts, pieces or parcels of land in 

 this act described, having been selected and located for a public park 

 and for a parade ground for the city of Brooklyn, by the Commis- 

 sioners appointed for that purpose, by the act entitled " An act to 

 authorize the selection and location of certain grounds for public 

 parks and also for a parade ground for the city of Brooklyn," passed 

 April eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty -nine ; the said tracts, 

 pieces and parcels of land, are hereby declared to be public places, 

 that is to say : All that piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and 

 being in the city of Brooklyn, and town of Flatbush, and bounded 

 and described as follows : — Commencing at the intersection of War- 

 ren street and Washington avenue ; running thence southerly along 

 Washington avenue to the city line at Montgomery street ; thence 

 southwesterly in a straight line to a point one thousand feet 

 easterly in a straight line drawn from the intersection .of Ninth 

 street with the city line ; thence to the intersection of the city line 

 and Ninth street; thence northwesterly along Ninth street to Tenth 

 avenue ; thence northerly along Tenth avenue to the northerly side 

 of Third street ; thence northwesterly along Third street to Ninth 

 avenue ; thence northerly along Ninth avenue to Flatbush avenue ; 

 thence along Flatbush avenue to Vanderbilt avenue ; thence along 

 Vanderbilt avenue to Warren street ; thence easterly along Warren 

 street to Washington avenue, at the place of beginning, is hereby 

 declared to be a public place to be known as Prospect Park, and 

 which jjfoall be a charge upon said city as hereinafter provided. 



§2. All that piece of land situate, lying and being in the town 

 of New Lots, to be taken from the southerly part of the lands be- 

 longing to the heirs of White Howard, deceased, containing about 

 twenty-five acres, is hereby declared to be a public place, to be 

 known as the Parade Ground, and which shall be a charge upon the 

 county of Kings, as hereinafter provided, and shall be under the 

 management and control of the Supervisors thereof. 



§ 3. The aforesaid pieces of land shall, from and after the pas- 

 sage of this act, be public places, and the lands in the first section of 

 this act mentioned, shall be deemed to have been taken by said city 

 of Brooklyn, for public use, as and for a public park, and to have 

 been declared open as a public place, with the same effect as if the 

 whole of the same had been within the city of Brooklyn, and as if they 

 had been taken and declared open under and in pursuance of the 

 provisions of an act entitled " An act to revise and amend the sev- 



