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The financial statement of the Board for the current year 

 will be found appended to this report, showing the receipts and 

 expenditures on account of each of the parks under their charge, 

 as well as on account of the parade ground. The amount re- 

 ceived from the city for the improvement of Prospect Park 

 was eight hundred and forty thousand dollars, being the pro- 

 ceeds of sales of seven per cent, city bonds. From the rents 

 of houses still standing on the park, with sales of old material, 

 grass, and firewood, together with pound receipts and interest 

 on bank balances, there has also been realized the sum of four- 

 teen thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars. 



The statement further exhibits the entire expenditure of the 

 Commission since its organization upon each of the parks, and 

 the particular fund chargeable therewith. The total expendi- 

 ture on account of Prospect Park for the year was one million 

 and seventy-eight thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars ; 

 and on account of the other city parks, uinety-two thousand two 

 hundred and sixty-two dollars. The largest disbursement was 

 of course for labor, amounting to six hundred and seventy-five 

 thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine dollars ; a sum which, 

 when compared with the number of men employed, shows that 

 there has as yet been no reduction in the price of labor. The 

 materials of construction have required an outlay of one hun- 

 dred and ninety-two thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars, 

 a large proportion of which was for stone, brick, lime, and cement 

 used in the construction of bridges, and the laying of drainage 

 and water pipe. An expenditure of nineteen thousand nine 

 hundred and eighty-seven dollars for trees and shrubs has much 

 increased the very fine and varied stock of our already ex- 

 tensive nursery. Fifteen thousand and fifty-five dollars were 

 spent for drain pipe ; and the Belgian and other pavements 

 have cost seventy-one thousand three hundred and eighteen 

 dollars. 



The Commissioners respectfully refer to the reports of the 

 engineer in charge of the work, and his assistants, for a further 

 and more detailed statement of the several objects of these ex- 

 penditures than can well be presented in the limited pages of 

 this report. The vouchers applicable to each item of the 

 account will be found at the office of the board, regularly filed 

 and numbered for greater convenience. 

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