An Act to extend the boundaries of Prospect Park in the City of 



Brooklyn. 



Passed April 30, 1866 ; three-fifths being present. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park, in 

 the city of Brooklyn, are hereby authorized, for and in behalf of the 

 said city, to acquire title to all those certain pieces or parcel of 

 land, situated partly in the said city and partly in the town of Flat- 

 bush, beginning at the easterly corner of the Tenth avenue and Ninth 

 street, and running thence southwesterly along Tenth avenue to 

 Fifteenth street ; thence southeasterly along the northeasterly side 

 or line of Fifteenth street, to a point distant one hundred and sixty- 

 one feet and ten inches northwesterly from the intersection of the 

 said line with a line made by extending the easterly side of the 

 Coney Island road as now laid out between Franklin avenue, 

 in the town of Flatbush so called, and Braxton street, northward ; 

 thence southerly upon a curved line of three hundred and ninety 

 feet radius, to a point 'on said curve at which it coincides with 

 and becomes tangent to the said easterly line of the Coney Island 

 road extended as aforesaid ; thence southerly on said extended 

 line to a point in the circumference of a circle of one hundred 

 and ten feet radius, of which the center rests upon the middle 

 line of Sixteenth street at a point distant twenty-seven feet and six 

 inches westerly from and at right angles to said extended line ; 

 thence westerly and following the circumference, of said circle until 

 it again intersects the said extended line ; thence southerly upon 

 said extended line and along the said easterly side of said Coney 

 Island road to a point distant two hundred and seventy feet and 

 three inches northerly from the present northeast corner of said road 

 and Franklin avenue ; thence westerly upon the circumference of a 

 circle of two hundred and forty-five feet radius, having its center at 

 a point in said Coney Island road which is distant twenty-seven feet 

 and six inches westerly at right angles from the easterly side of said 

 road, and following said circumference to its intersection with the 

 northerly line of Franklin avenue ; thence easterly along said avenue 

 to the plank road in the village of Flatbush ; thence northerly on 

 the westerly line of said plank road twenty feet ; thence westerly 

 and parallel with Franklin avenue six hundred and fifty feet ; thence 

 northerly in a direct line to a point which is distant twenty feet 

 westerly at right angles from the northwest corner of a workshop 

 standing on the boundary line of the lands of Cornelia A. Willink, 

 deceased, and Elizabeth Ludlow, and the lands of John Lott, de- 



