ELEVENTH ANNUAL 11EP0UT 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



The Brooklyn Park Commissioners herewith submit a Re- 

 port of their proceeding's for the year 1S70, including a detailed 

 statement of their receipts and expenditures for the same 

 period. 



It will be remembered, that in their last Report, and, in- 

 deed, in several prior Reports, the Commissioners urged the 

 propriety, if not the necessity, especially in view of the city's 

 present extended financial engagements, of selling a portion of 

 that section of park land which lies east of Flatbush avenue, 

 and which, in their judgment, it was not expedient to improve 

 for park purposes. A large majority of our taxpayers con- 

 curring in the recommendation, application was made to the 

 Legislature to extinguish the park easement to which the land, 

 was then subject, and, authorize its sale for the benefit of the 

 city. An act was accordingly passed on the 23d of April, 

 1ST0, directing the Commissioners to contract and sell, on be- 

 half of the city, at public auction, and upon such terms and 

 conditions as they should deem expedient, all that part of the 

 park which lies east of Flatbush avenue, excepting and reserving 

 such lands around the reservoir, and along the avenue, not less 

 than two hundred and fifty feet in width, as the Commissioners 

 should think it desirable to retain for public use. 



The act further directed that all moneys received from such 



