TENTH ANNUAL REPORT 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK, 



To the Honorable the Mayor and [Common Council of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



The Brooklyn Park Commissioners respectfully submit to 

 the Common Council of the city this report of their proceed- 

 ings for the year 1869, with a statement of their receipts and 

 expenditures for the same period. 



Their last report referred to the proceedings of Commission- 

 ers who had recently been appointed by the Supreme Court to 

 estimate the value of land added to Prospect Park at its west- 

 ern angle, and suggested the hope that their forthcoming report 

 on damages, would be of such a character as to justify the 

 board in asking the Supreme Court to ratify and confirm the 

 same. The report was soon afterwards presented to the board, 

 and awarded to the owners of land the damages sustained by 

 them, amounting in the whole to one million seven hundred 

 and five thousand two hundred and forty-eight dollars and 

 thirty-two cents. This amount, however, included the expense 

 of the proceedings, together with the expense of the subsequent 

 proceedings to assess property adjacent to the park for special 

 benefit, which yet remains to be done. Although the estimate 

 seemed large when compared with former prices, it was the 

 result of a fair and impartial examination of the claims of the 

 parties in interest, made by five of our most judicious and reli- 

 able citizens ; and there was no question that the property had 

 been greatly increased in value by its immediate contiguity to 

 the park, during the time that its acquisition had been unfor- 



