REPORT 



OF THE 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



By the 20th section of the Act of the Assembly of April 

 17th, 1860, entitled " An Act to lay out a Public Park and a 

 Parade Ground for the City of Brooklyn, and to alter the Com- 

 missioners' Map of said city," it is made the duty of the Com- 

 missioners of Prospect Park, in the month of January of every 

 year, to make to the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn 

 a full report of their proceedings, and a detailed statement of 

 all their receipts and expenditures. 



In complying with this provision of the law, the Commis- 

 sioners deem it proper to introduce their first Annual Report 

 with a history of the successive legislative enactments relating 

 to the subject upon which they are called to act. 



On the 18th day of April, 1859, at the solicitation of the 

 citizens of Brooklyn, the Legislature of the State of New- York 

 passed the following 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. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as folloivs : 



Section 1. John Greenwood, J. Carson Brevoort, William Wall, 

 James Humphrey, John A. Cross, Nathaniel Briggs, Abraham J. 

 Berry, Samuel S. Powell, Thomas H. Eodman, Nathan B. Morse, 

 Thomas G. Talmage, Jesse C. Smith, Daniel Maujer, William H. 

 Peck and Luther B. Wyman, or such of them as shall undertake the 

 office of this commission, are hereby appointed Commissioners to 

 select and locate such grounds in the city of Brooklyn, and adjacent 

 thereto, as may, in their opinion, be proper and desirable to be re- 

 served and set apart for Public Parks, and also for a Parade Ground 

 for said city ; and they shall report such selection and location to the 



