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CHAPTER 340, 



Of the Laws of 1861. 



An Act to amend an Act Tpassed April seventeenth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty, entitled " An act to lay out a Public Park and 

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

 missioner's map of said city." 



Passed May 2, 1861 ; three fifths being present. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The act entitled "An act to lay out a Public Park 

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

 missioner's map of said city," passed April seventeenth, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty, is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 



Section 1. The following tract, piece or parcel of land, having 

 been selected and located for a public park for the city of Brooklyn, 

 by Commissioners 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 

 is hereby declared to be a public place, that is to say : All that 

 piece or parcel of land situate, lying or being in the city of Brook- 

 lyn and town of Flatbush, and bounded and described as follows : 

 Commencing at the intersection of the Tenth avenue and Ninth 

 street, and running thence southerly along the northeasterly side of 

 Ninth street, and on a line in continuation thereof, into the town of 

 Flatbush, to a point in said line which is one thousand feet distant 

 from the city of Brooklyn ; thence northeasterly on a line drawn paral- 

 lel with Tenth avenue, until it intersects a line drawn southerly from 

 and in continuation of the westerly side of Washington avenue ; 

 thence northerly along Washington avenue to its intersection with 

 Warren street ; thence westerly along Warren street to Vanderbilt 

 avenue ; thence southwesterly along Vanderbilt avenue to Flatbush 

 avenue ; thence southerly along Flatbush avenue to the easterly side 

 or line of Ninth avenue ; thence southerly along Ninth avenue to 

 Third street ; thence southeasterly along Third street to the easterly 

 line or side of Tenth avenue, and thence southwesterly along Tenth 

 avenue to its intersection with Ninth street at the place of be- 

 ginning. 



§ 2. The said piece of land shall, from and after the passage of 

 this act, 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 it had been taken 

 and declared open under and in pursuance of the provisions of an 



