AN ACT 



For the further Extension of Prospect Park in the City of 

 Brooklyn. Passed April 24th, 1868. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Seriate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Commissioners of Prospect Park in the city of 

 Brooklyn are hereby authorized, for and in behalf of the said city, 

 to acquire title to all those certain lots, pieces or parcels of land in 

 said city, which taken together are described as follows : Beginning 

 at the easterly corner of Ninth avenue and Third street, and running 

 thence southwesterly along Ninth avenue to a point between Four- 

 teenth and Fifteenth street, which is upon the circumference of a 

 circle of one hundred and fifty-four feet radius, of which the center 

 is at the intersection of the middle line of Ninth avenue with the 

 middle line of Fifteenth street ; thence westerly and again easterly 

 following said circumference for more than three-fourths of said 

 circle, to its insersection with the northeasterly side of Fifteenth 

 street , thence southeasterly along said northeasterly side of Fif- 

 teenth street to the easterly corner of Tenth avenue and Fifteenth 

 street ; thence northeasterly along Tenth avenue and also along said 

 park to the northeasterly side of Third street ; and thence north- 

 westerly along said street to Ninth avenue at the place of be- 

 ginning. 



§ 2. The lands described in the last preceding section of this act 

 are hereby declared to be a public place, and shall be deemed to 

 have been taken by the city of Brooklyn, and to have been opened 

 for public use as an additional part of Prospect Park ; and from and 

 after the passage of this act the said lands shall be laid down on the 

 Commissioners' map of the said city, as if the same had been orig- 

 inally laid down upon said map, and had been taken and declared 

 open as a park pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled " An act 

 to revise and amend the several acts relating to the city of Brook- 

 lyn," passed April fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty. And all 

 streets, avenues and highways intersecting the said lands or any part 

 thereof, except Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, are hereby closed 

 and discontinued, and are stricken from the said city map so far as 

 they run through or intersect the said lands. 



