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If further expenditures are incurred and the grounds made more 

 attractive, they will not be sacred to any better uses than hitherto, 

 unless maintained at increased expense by a strong force of police, 

 and thus kept free of vagabonds by day and by night. 



The bones of the martyrs of the Revolution may, with much pro- 

 priety, be transferred to a portion of Prospect Park, which lies near 

 to the Greenwood Cemetery, to some spot within sight of the statue 

 to be erected in honor of the great martyr of our late civil war. 



Por months past the Park Commissioners have had before them 

 a plan for the improvement of Washington Park, the probable cost 

 of which has been estimated at $200,000. If an iron fence is put 

 around the ground according to the requirements of a recent law of 

 the Legislature, the outlay will much exceed this sum ; and the exe- 

 cution of the work has been kept in abeyance, because of a desire of 

 some members of the Board that the sentiments of their fellow- 

 citizens should first be known on the subject. A statement of the 

 foregoing facts and calculations is therefore briefly presented in this 

 report for their consideration. 



Brooklyn, January 28, 1868. 



A. A. LOW. 

 T. J. BERGEN. 

 A. B. BAYLIS. 

 W. S. GRIFFITH. 



