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tion and government thereof; to appoint such engineers, surveyors, 

 clerks and other officers, and such police force as may be necessary ; 

 to prescribe and define their respective duties and authority ; to fix 

 the amount of their compensation ; and generally, in regard to said 

 Park, they shall possess all the power and authority now by law 

 conferred on or possessed by the Common Council of said city in 

 respect to the public squares and places in said city. They shall 

 also, in the name of the city or in the name of the Board, at their 

 option, bring any action they may deem proper to recover damages 

 for the breach of any agreement relating to the management or im- 

 provement of said Park, for penalties for the violation of any ordi- 

 nance, for injuries to personal or real property appertaining to said 

 Park, and also to recover possession of any such property. (As 

 amended by chap. 599, laws of 1865.) 



§ 18. It shall be a misdemeanor for any Commissioner to be 

 directly or indirectly in any way pecuniarily interested in any con- 

 tract or work of any kind whatever connected with said Park, and it 

 shall be the duty of any Commissioner or other person who may 

 have any knowledge or information of the violation of this provision 

 forthwith to report the same to the Mayor of the city of Brooklyn, 

 who shall present the facts of the case to any Judge of the Supreme 

 Court of the Second Judicial District, such Judge shall hear in a 

 summary manner such Commissioner or other person in relation 

 thereto, and any evidence he may offer ; and if after such hearing he 

 shall be satisfied of the truth thereof, and shall so certify to the 

 Mayor, he shall immediately remove the Commissioner thus offend- 

 ing. Every Commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of 

 his office, take and subscribe the oath prescribed by the constitution 

 of the State, which oath shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the 

 city of Brooklyn. 



§ 19. Said Board of Commissioners shall, in the month of Jan- 

 uary of every year, make to the Common Council of said city a full 

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

 and expenditures. 



§ 20. Whenever the city of Brooklyn shall have become vested 

 with the title to said Park, as in this act provided, it shall be lawful 

 for the Commissioners of said Park to let, from year to year, any 

 buildings, and the grounds attached thereto, belonging to said city, 

 which may be within the limits of said Park, until the same shall be 

 required for the laying out and regulation thereof, when the said 

 buildings shall be removed, except such as may be used for the pur- 

 poses of said Park. 



§ 21. Whenever the said city shall have become vested with the 

 title to said Park as aforesaid, said Commissioners may sell any 

 buildings, improvements and other materials, being within the limits 

 of said Park, and belonging to said city, which in their judgment 

 shall not be required for the purposes of the said Park, or for public 

 use, the proceeds of which shall be deposited with the City Treasurer, 

 to the credit of the Commissioners, and devoted to the improvement 

 of the Park. 



§ 22. No plan for the laying out, regulation and government of 



