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places, or in consequence thereof, and the amounts so estimated 

 when duly confirmed, shall be paid as hereinafter in this act provided. 

 But after the cost of the said lands shall have been determined by 

 the confirmation of the final report in relation thereto, it shall be 

 the duty of said Commissioners to apportion such part of said cost 

 as they may deem equitable, upon any lands outside of said park, 

 which they shall deem to be specially benefited thereby, in propor- 

 tion to such benefit. And whenever their report in relation to such 

 apportionment shall be completed, they shall file the same with the 

 Clerk of Kings County, and thereupon proceedings may be had to 

 correct and confirm the same, as in this act provided. And after the 

 confirmation of any final report of said Commissioners making such 

 apportionment, said assessment shall be a lien upon said lands. The 

 one-twentieth part of the amount thus apportioned, shall with inter- 

 est, be chargeable annually upon the lands so assessed for benefit, 

 and shall be included annually in the taxes to be levied thereon, and 

 shall be levied and collected like other taxes upon property ; and the 

 proceeds thereof shall be paid over to the Commissioners of the 

 Sinking Fund of said city, to be by them applied to the redemption 

 of the bonds of said city, to be issued by virtue of this act. But 

 any person interested in the land so assessed may at any time pay 

 the whole amount due thereon, with interest to the said Commis- 

 sioners of the Sinking Fund to be by them applied in the manner 

 hereinbefore mentioned ; and from and after such payment the lien 

 hereinbefore created shall cease. 



§ 6. Payment of the damages awarded by said Commissioners, 

 in any report made in pursuance hereof, shall become due and pay- 

 able, and shall be paid immediately upon the confirmation of said 

 report. 



§ 7. Before proceeding to discharge any of their duties, the Com- 

 missioners 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 pro- 

 ceed, as soon as may be after their appointment to discharge the 

 duties of their trust, and to make and complete their estimates, and 

 awards and reports as hereinafter 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 Counsel of the Corpora- 

 tion of said city of Brooklyn. Within twenty days after receiving 

 such notice of the filing of such report, the Corporation Counsel 

 shall give notice, by publication for ten days in two daily papers of 

 said city, that he will at the 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 Coun- 

 sel 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 hereinafter pre- 

 scribed. 



