PAKE OBDINANCE, 



No. 2. 



An Ordinance for the better Government of the Public Parks now 

 tinder the control of the Commissioners of Prospect Park. Passed 

 An gust 1st, 1887. 



The Commissioners of Prospect Park, in the city of Brooklyn, 

 by virtue of the authority conferred upon them by the Act of the 

 Legislature under which they were appointed, and the several acts 

 amendatory thereof, do order and direct as follows : 



1. The superintendents, under the direction of the executive com- 

 mittee of the board, are hereby authorized and directed to assign to 

 police service so many and such men as shall, from time to time, be 

 found necessary for the proper management and good government 

 of the several parks now under charge of the said Commissioners. 



2. The station houses of the said force, wherever they shall be 

 located, may be used as places of temporary detention for persons 

 who may be arrested upon either of the said parks. 



3. A suitable badge and uniform shall be provided for each per- 

 son so to be employed or appointed, and shall be displayed by him 

 at all times when engaged in the discharge of police duty. 



4. Whenever any person so employed or appointed shall display 

 his badge upon either of the said parks, in the discharge of his duty, 

 he shall, for all purposes of maintaining order and enforcing the 

 rules, regulations and ordinances of the Park Commissioners, be in- 

 vested with all the powers and authority conferred upon members of 

 the police force of the Metropolitan Police District, by an act en- 

 titled " An act to establish a metropolitan police district, and to pro- 

 vide for the management thereof, passed April 15th, 1857," and the 

 several acts amendatory thereof. 



