EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



The Commissioners of Prospect Park present this report of 

 their proceedings, for the year 1867, to the Honorable the 

 Mayor and Common Council of the city of Brooklyn, trusting 

 that the results of the operations which they are about to de- 

 tail will prove satisfactory to the Common Council, as well as 

 to our citizens in general. With a full appreciation of the 

 great responsibility of the trust committed to them, they are 

 cheered by the reflection that, while laboring to secure to their 

 fellow citizens the advantages of a beautiful and healthful 

 pleasure ground, which must soon prove as conspicuous for its 

 moral as for its material effects upon our city, they are, at the 

 same time, strengthening that great bond of social sympathy 

 which should always pervade a great commercial community, 

 while it guarantees its permanence and success. 



Their last annual report informed the Common Council of 

 the intention of the Commissioners to apply to the Legislature 

 for authority to annex twelve blocks of ground, at the north- 

 westerly angle of the park, as being, in their judgment, indis- 

 pensably necessary to the completion of the plan in that direc- 

 tion. The reasons for this acquisition were then stated, and 

 need not be here repeated ; they are, in fact, sufficiently obvious 

 from a mere glance at the park map. 



