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Commissioners of Prospect Park, who shall stand in the place of, 

 and act when required as, the Common Council of the city or the 

 Street Commissioner thereof, would be required to act in the prem- 

 ises ; and they shall employ an attorney and counsel, and all such 

 clerks, surveyors, and other agents as may be required for the pur- 

 poses of this act. 



§ 8. The said Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment shall 

 be allowed to make use of any maps on file in any of the public 

 offices of the said city, and shall each receive five dollars a day for 

 every day actually spent in the discharge of his duty. Which ex- 

 penses and compensation, together with the room hire, stationery, 

 and other necessary expenses of the said Commissioners, as well as the 

 expenses and compensation of all other persons necessarily employed 

 under the foregoing provisions of this act, shall be included in the 

 general expenses to be incurred herein. 



§ 9. Sackett, Douglass and Degraw streets shall be laid out 

 according to a plan to be devised or adopted by the said Park Com- 

 missioners, and shall also be graded, paved, curbed and guttered in 

 such manner as they shall direct ; and may be re-named, and planted 

 with suitable shade trees, or otherwise improved in their discretion. 

 And the said Commissioners may construct such roads and walks 

 thereon, and make use of such pavements and materials of construc- 

 tion therefor as they shall deem best. — As amended by act of 14/A 

 May, 1872. 



§ 10. All expenses incident to the improvements specified in the 

 last preceding section of this act, after having been duly certified by 

 the said Park Commissioners to the said Commissioners of Estimate 

 and Assessment, shall be by the said last mentioned Commissioners 

 apportioned and assessed, in such manner as they shall deem just 

 and equitable, upon property to be, in their judgment, benefited 

 thereby ; but such assessment shall be laid within a district of assess- 

 ment to be fixed by a resolution of the said Park Commissioners. 

 Such assessments shall constitute liens upon the several parcels of 

 property to be charged therewith, and shall be assessed, levied, and 

 collected, with interest, from the confirmation of the report of the 

 said Commissioners, of Assessment thereupon, in the same manner 

 as other local assessments are levied and collected in said city ; pro- 

 vided, however, and it is hereby directed, that one tenth part of said 

 assessments shall be levied and collected annually for ten successive 

 years after the confirmation of the said report. — As amended by act 

 of \lth May, 1872. 



§ 11. After Sackett street shall have been opened, so much thereof 

 as lies eastward of Prospect Park shall be under the exclusive con- 

 trol and management of the said Park Commissioners, and they shall 

 make and enforce proper rules and regulations for the public use 

 thereof. And after it shall have been improved as hereinbefore 

 directed, its subsequent maintenance shall be provided for in the 

 same manner as the public parks now under the charge of the 

 Park Commissioners are provided for. 



§ 12. This act shall take effect immediately. 



