AN ACT 



to provide for the improvement and maintenance of the 

 Public Parks of the City of Brooklyn. Passed May 1st, 



1868. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Commissioners of Prospect Park, in the city of 

 Brooklyn, shall have full and exclusive power to lay out, regulate, 

 improve and maintain the public parks of the city of Brooklyn, and to 

 govern, manage and direct the same, and the public use thereof; to 

 make ordinances, rules and regulations for their proper management 

 and government ; to appoint such engineers, surveyors, clerks and 

 other officers, and such police force as they may deem expedient, 

 and to prescribe and define their respective duties and authority ; to 

 fix and regulate the compensation to be paid to the several persons 

 so to be employed by them ; to open, widen and grade the northerly 

 side of Ninth avenue, between Montgomery and Union street, and so 

 much of Fifteenth street as was extended to meet the Coney Island 

 road, and laid down on the city map, by an act entitled " An act to 

 extend the boundaries of Prospect Park, in the city of Brooklyn," 

 passed April 30th, 1866 ; to locate, erect and maintain fountains on 

 the said parks, or either of them, as well as upon the streets and 

 avenues which form the boundaries thereof, or intersect the same ; 

 to erect and maintain iron and other fences around the said parks ; 

 to flag and reflag the sidewalks of said streets, roads or avenues on 

 the side which is adjacent to the said parks ; to increase the width 

 thereof, and to set and reset curb and gutter stones, shade trees and 

 lamp posts thereon ; and to determine the particular location of any 

 railroad track which is now or may be hereafter placed upon such 

 road, street or avenue. 



They may also in the name of the city, or of the said Board of 

 Commissioners, at their option, bring any action which they may 

 deem proper, to recover damages for the breach of any agreement, 

 express or implied, relating to or growing out of the management or 

 improvement of the said parks ; for penalties for the violation of any 

 ordinance ; or for injuries to personal or real property appertaining 

 to the said parks ; or to recover the possession of any such property. 



The land taken (and set apart for a Parade Ground for the county 



