AN ACT 



to open and widen portions of sackett, douglass and presi- 

 dent streets, and otherwise alter the commissioners' map 

 of the City of Brooklyn. Passed May 6th, 1868. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. Sackett street, in the city of Brooklyn, is hereby 

 widened from Washington avenue easterly to the southerly limit or 

 boundary line of the said city, to the width of two hundred and ten 

 feet, and shall be opened to that width by adding seventy feet in 

 width to each side of the said street, as now laid down on the Com- 

 missioners' map of the said city. And President street and Douglass 

 street are hereby also widened from New York avenue easterly to 

 the said city line, to the width of one hundred feet ; and shall be 

 opened to that width by adding fifteen feet in width to each side of 

 the said several streets, as now laid down on the said map. 



§ 2. So much of Degraw street as lies easterly from New York 

 avenue, and extends to the said city limits, is hereby narrowed to 

 the width of thirty-five feet, by taking away thirty-five feet in width 

 on the southerly side thereof; and so much of Union street as lies 

 easterly from the said avenue, and extends to said city limits, is 

 hereby also narrowed to the width of thirty-five feet by taking away 

 thirty -five feet in width from the northerly side thereof; which said 

 southerly side of Degraw street, and northerly side of Union street, 

 are hereby abandoned for street purposes, and shall be stricken from 

 the said city map. 



§ 3. No buildings or other erections, except porches, piazzas, 

 fences, fountains, and statuary, shall remain or be at any time 

 placed upon any of the lots, fronting upon either of the said streets 

 so to be widened, within thirty feet from the line or sides of the 

 said several streets respectively. The intervening spaces of land 

 on each side of the said several streets shall be used for court yards 

 only, and may be planted with trees and shrubbery, and otherwise 

 ornamented, at the discretion of the respective owners or occupants 

 thereof. And no building now standing, or that may be hereafter 

 erected, on any lot fronting or to front, on either Union or Degraw 

 streets so narrowed, shall ever be used for any purpose other than 

 a stable, carriage house, conservatory for plants, or green house ; 

 but no livery or railway stable, or car house, shall at any time 

 be erected, or maintained, upon any of the said lots. And at no 

 time shall there be erected, established or carried on, in any man- 

 ner whatever, upon any land to be affected by the said widenings, 

 or either of them, any slaughter house, tallow chandlery, furnace, 

 foundry, nail or other factory, or any manufactory for making 

 starch, glue, varnish, vitriol, oil, or gas, or for tanning, dressing, 

 repairing or keeping skins, hides or leather, or any distillery, 



