NINTH ANNUAL KEPORT 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK 



To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



The Brooklyn Park Commissioners, in conformity to the 

 requirements of the law which appointed them to office, and 

 which prescribes and regulates their duties, herewith present to 

 the honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the city a 

 report of their proceedings for the year 1868, together with a 

 statement of their receipts and expenditures during the same 

 period. 



Since the last annual report, the Commission, with its official 

 staff, has remained essentially unchanged, except that Messrs. 

 William Marshall and Isaac Yan Anden have been appointed 

 Commissioners, to supply vacancies which have occurred in the 

 Board — the latter to occupy the place made vacant by the death 

 of our late associate, Cornelius J. Sprague, Esq. By the de- 

 cease of this gentleman, park enterprise has lost one of its 

 earliest and firmest advocates, and the city a faithful guardian 

 of its interests. A wise Providence had previously deprived 

 us of the valuable services of Dr. Richard L. Thompson, a 

 former secretary of the Board, and of Ex-Mayor Thomas Gr. 

 Talmadge, a zealous coadjutor in many a plan of city improve- 

 ment ; so that there now remain but three members of the 

 Board of Commissioners who were originally selected to or- 

 ganize and carry forward the important work in which we are 

 engaged. By a recent act of the Legislature, also, the Mayor 

 of the city, as a suitable representative of the city's interest in 



