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other cities, where costly structures have been frequently de- 

 stroyed in order to give place to improvements, when a more 

 prudent foresight might have easily prevented the loss. The 

 Board has deemed this matter of sufficient importance to make 

 application to the Legislature for permission to take in several 

 additional acres of land on the westerly side of Flatbush Ave- 

 nue, near its junction with the Ninth Avenue, for the purpose 

 of giving a more elegant and symmetrical approach to this 

 entrance than can now be procured from the present contracted 

 and angular arrangement of those avenues. 



No expense has been incurred during the past year except 

 for legal advice, and for the employment of a park keeper 

 during a portion of the time. 



In conclusion, the Board assures the Common Council, that 

 no effort shall be wanting on its part to make Prospect Park, 

 as speedily and as economically as possible, an honor to our 

 city, and a source of health and of pleasure to its inhabitants. 



Dated January, 1865. 



All of which, is respectfully submitted. 



J. S. T. STRANAHAN, 

 President Board of Corners of Prospect Park. 

 Walter S. Griffith, 



Secretary. 



