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§ :>. The said Commissioners may apply to the Supreme Court 

 in the second judicial district at any special term thereof, upon a 

 notice to be published ten days successively in two newspapers 

 printed in the city of Brooklyn, for the appointment of five Com- 

 missioners of Estimate and Assessment for the purposes of this act ; 

 and the court shall thereupon proceed to their appointment as 

 directed by an act passed May second, eighteen hundred and sixty- 

 one, entitled " An act to amend an act to lay out a public park and 

 parade ground for the city of Brooklyn, and to alter the Commis- 

 sioners' map of said city," passed April seventeenth, eighteen hun- 

 dred and sixty. 



§ 4. The Commissioners so to be appointed shall estimate the 

 value of the lands and premises taken by this act, and the loss and 

 damage to be sustained by the owners or other persons interested 

 therein in consequence of their relinquishing the same to the city. 

 And after their report thereon shall have been confirmed by the said 

 court, they shall apportion and assess not exceeding fifty per cent, 

 thereof, together with not exceeding fifty per cent, of the whole 

 amount of the awards and expenses heretofore reported to and con- 

 firmed by the said court, for all lands heretofore taken and now con- 

 stituting Prospect Park, upon any lands outside of the said park 

 which they shall deem to be benefited by the opening of the said 

 park, in proportion to such benefit. But the land so to be assessed 

 shall include all lands on the east side of Flatbush avenue taken 

 for the said park. And the several amounts awarded or to be 

 awarded to the city upon the widening of streets and avenues adja- 

 cent to said park, for lands taken from said park before making 

 such apportionment, together with the cost of the land so taken east 

 of Flatbush avenue, shall be deducted from the whole amount of 

 awards and expenses above referred to before making the said ap- 

 portionment. No error, irregularity or want of power in regard to 

 any portion of said apportionment and assessment shall invalidate 

 the residue thereof. Of the amount thus to be apportioned only 

 the one-twentieth part shall be annually assessed in each and every 

 year, commencing with the year 1873, for twenty successive years, 

 and be a lien from the time of such annual assessments upon the 

 lands respectively charged therewith, together with interest from 

 the time of the confirmation of the report on assessment, to be com- 

 puted from year to year, upon the respective amounts remaining 

 unpaid at the time of making such annual assessment ; which interest 

 shall be added to said assessment and form part thereof. And the 

 said assessment and interest shall be annually included in the taxes to 

 be levied upon the lands so to be assessed, and shall be levied and 

 collected in the same manner as other taxes upon real estate annually 

 for twenty successive years. The proceeds of such collections shall, 

 immediately after their receipt, be paid over to the Commissioners 

 of the Sinking Fund in. the city of Brooklyn, to be applied to the 

 redemption of all city bonds issued or to be issued for the payment 

 of the purchase and improvement of lands taken for said park. But 

 any person interested in the said lands, or any of them, may at any 



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