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passageway, at least twenty feet wide, from Fifteenth street to the 

 said cemetery, for the common use of all the societies of Friends 

 occupying the same, so long as they shall continue to use it as a 

 cemetery ; and no assessment for benefit, hereinafter directed to be 

 made, shall be levied or collected upon the residue of the property 

 now used as a cemetery, so long as the said ground shall continue to 

 be a cemetery or place of interment. The said Board of Commis- 

 sioners may at any time agree with the said societies of Friends for 

 the purchase of the said property, or any part thereof, and the val- 

 uation of the same, with the damages the said Friends may sustain 

 by reason of their removal therefrom ; and upon such contract 

 being reported to the Comptroller by the said Board, with a proper 

 certificate of their counsel as to title, the Comptroller is hereby au- 

 thorized to pay the same, and may issue such additional bonds as 

 may be necessary to complete the purchase thereof, in the same way 

 and subject to the same redemption as other bonds directed to be 

 issued under this act. And whenever the said purchase shall be 

 completed and the property conveyed to the city, any assessment 

 that may have been laid thereon by Commissioners of Estimate and 

 Assessment under this act shall be canceled, and the said property 

 shall become a portion of Prospect Park, and be under the exclusive 

 control and management of the Board of Commissioners, in the 

 same way and to the same extent as other portions of the said park 

 now are or may at any time be. 



§ 4. The Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad Company is here- 

 by directed to remove its railway tracks from Fifteenth street, and 

 is authorized and directed to lay such tracks upon Sixteenth street, 

 or upon Braxton street, or upon both said streets, at its option, and 

 to continue said tracks through said streets to Ninth avenue ; thence 

 through said avenue to Fifteenth street ; thence through Fifteenth 

 street to Sixth avenue, and thence through said avenue to Ninth 

 street, and also through Ninth street, and also through Ninth avenue 

 from Ninth street to Braxton street, and to operate their road and 

 run their cars over the same. Braxton street and Sixteenth street 

 and Sixth avenue and Ninth avenue shall be opened and graded so 

 far as may be necessary for the purposes of said railroad, whenever 

 the said railroad company shall make application therefor to the 

 proper authorities ; and the grade of Braxton street is established 

 as follows, that is to say : One hundred and fifty feet above high 

 water mark at Ninth avenue ; one hundred and thirty-two feet at 

 Tenth avenue ; one hundred and fifteen feet and six inches at Eleventh 

 avenue ; and ninety-eight feet at the City Line, at its junction with 

 the Coney Island road. 



§ 5. The said Board of Commissioners may apply to the Su- 

 preme Court in the Second Judicial District for the appointment of 

 five Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, relating to the lands 

 and premises hereby authorized to be taken, and the court shall 

 thereupon proceed as directed by an act passed May second, eighteen 

 hundred and sixty-one, entitled " An act to amend an act entitled 

 ' An act to lay out a public park and parade ground for the city of 



