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amount included in the general tax of said city for that year ; and it 

 shall be the duty of said Supervisors to cause such amount to be 

 included in such general tax. And in making the levy of taxes in 

 this section prescribed, the said supervisors shall so apportion and 

 levy the same as that all sums of money which shall be levied for 

 the purpose of paying principal and interest of the bonds which may 

 have been issued on account of the purchase, improvement and orna- 

 mentation of the lands comprising the said Prospect Park, shall be 

 levied and collected exclusively upon and from the taxable property 

 within that portion of said city now composing the first twelve wards 

 thereof. 



§ 14. The Commissioners appointed by virtue of section three of 

 this act shall have authority to employ an attorney and surveyors, 

 and to use any map on file or belonging to said city, and to cause 

 such maps to be made as may be necessary ; and said Commissioners 

 shall be allowed a compensation of five dollars per day for their 

 time actually employed in discharging their duties as such Commis- 

 sioners. Before any award or compensation shall be paid for land 

 taken for the park, the Attorney and Counsel for the city of Brook- 

 lyn shall certify that the title thereof is free from encumbrances, and 

 that the city will acquire a perfect title thereto. He shall be allowed 

 such reasonable compensation as shall be proper, to be taxed by the 

 County Judge of Kings county, or one of the Justices of the Supreme 

 Court for the Second Judicial District, and the same, together with 

 the compensation of said Commissioners, shall form a part of the 

 general expense. 



§ 15. The said Park shall be under the exclusive control and 

 management of a Board of Commissioners, to consist of not less than 

 seven nor more than twelve persons, who shall be named and styled 

 " The Commissioners of Prospect Park." A majority of said Board 

 of Commissioners in office for the time being shall constitute a 

 quorum for the transaction of business. (As amended by chap. 409, 

 laws of 1865.) . 



§ 16. James S. T. Stranahan, Thomas McElrath, Edwards W. 

 Fiske, R. H. Thompson, Thomas G. Talmadge, Stephen Haynes, 

 Cornelius J. Sprague, Joseph A. Perry, Abraham B. Baylis, Walter 

 S. Griffith, Seymour L. Husted, Teunis J. Bergen and Conklin Brush, 

 (as amended by chap. 409, laios, 1864), are hereby appointed, 

 and shall constitute the first Board of Commissioners of Prospect 

 Park ; they shall hold office as such Commissioners for five years 

 from the passage of this act, and until their successors shall be 

 appointed and duly qualified. No member of said Board shall 

 receive any compensation for his services. In case of a vacancy, the 

 same may be filled by the remaining members of the Board for the 

 residue of the term then vacant ; and all vacancies occasioned by ex- 

 piration of the terms of office shall be filled by the Mayor, by and 

 with the advice and consent of at least two-thirds of the Common 

 Council of said city. 



§ 17. The said Board shall have the full and exclusive power to 

 govern, manage and direct the said Park, and the public use thereof; 

 to lay out and regulate the same ; to pass ordinances for the regula- 



