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employ an attorney and surveyor for the purposes of this act, whose 

 compensation shall be included in the general expenses to be in- 

 curred under this act ; and the awards for lands to be taken pur- 

 suant to this act shall be payable upon the certificate of the counsel 

 of the said Board. 



§ 8. No expenses, fees or compensation shall be allowed under 

 this act, unless the same shall have been duly taxed as herein pro- 

 vided, and for the purpose of such taxation the said Commissioners 

 shall return to the said court the several items thereof, and the 

 amount incurred by them respectively, as well as by the said attor- 

 ney and counsel. They shall at the same time give notice in two of 

 the daily newspapers published in the city of Brooklyn, for ten days 

 successively, of their intention to present the same to the said court 

 for taxation at a special term thereof to be therein designated. And 

 any taxpayer of the said city may appear upon such taxation and 

 show cause why the said expenses, fees, or compensation, or any 

 portion thereof, shall not be allowed ; and it shall be the duty of 

 the court to examine the several items thereof, and to tax and adjust 

 the same for such amount as in its judgment shall be just and 

 reasonable. 



§ 9. The payment of all damages to be awarded by the said Com- 

 missioners of estimate and assessment, as well as the general 

 expenses authorized to be paid by this act, shall become due and 

 payable immediately after the confirmation of their report there- 

 upon. And the title of the lands mentioned or referred to in their 

 report upon valuation shall, immediately after the confirmation 

 thereof by the said court, vest for ever in fee simple absolute in the 

 city of Brooklyn, and the said lands shall thenceforth form a part of 

 Prospect Park, and be under the exclusive management and control 

 of the said Board of Commissioners, in the same manner and to the 

 same extent as the other portions of the said park now are or may 

 at any time be under the management or control of the said Board. 



§ 10. For the payment of awards so to be made by the said 

 Commissioners, and for the payment of the said general expenses, 

 fees and compensation, as well as for the payment of the expenses of 

 managing and improving the said park, the bonds of the city shall 

 from time to time be issued in the manner directed by the act re- 

 ferred to in the fifth section of this act ; and such bonds, and also 

 all other bonds which may hereafter be issued under the provisions 

 of the two several acts mentioned or referred, to in the fifth and sixth 

 sections of this act, may bear an interest not exceeding seven per 

 cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. And for the redemption of 

 the said bonds, as well as for the redemption of the bonds issued and 

 to be issued under the provisions of the said acts, with interest, all 

 lands embraced within the boundaries of the said park, including 

 those taken under this act, are hereby specifically pledged. 



§ 11. All the provisions of the act referred to in the fifth section 

 of this act, and of any act amendatory thereof relating to the issue, 

 use and sale of bonds, and the redemption thereof, with the interest 

 to accrue thereon, as well as in relation to the taking and paying for 



