AN ACT 



to authorize the improvement and sale op certain portions 

 of Prospect Park, in the City of Brooklyn. Passed 

 April 23, 1870; three-fifths being present. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Brooklyn Park Commissioners are hereby au- 

 thorized for and in behalf of the city of Brooklyn, to contract and 

 sell at public auction, at such times, and on such terms and conditions 

 as they shall deem expedient, all or any part of the land within said 

 park which is bounded westerly by Flatbush avenue, northerly by 

 Vanderbilt avenue, easterly by Warren street and Washington 

 avenue, and southerly by the town of Flatbush ; excepting and re- 

 serving therefrom such lands around the reservoir, and along the 

 line of Flatbush avenue southeasterly from said reservoir, not less 

 than two hundred and fifty feet in width, as shall, in the judgment of 

 said Commissioners, be considered desirable to be retained for 

 public use. 



Sec. 2. For any lands which the said Commissioners shall sell, 

 they may receive in part payment the bonds of the purchaser, for 

 such portion of the purchase money secured by mortgage on the 

 land sold, as they may deem expedient. And whenever any such 

 sales shall have been made, the Mayor, Comptroller, and Clerk of 

 the city of Brooklyn shall, at the request of the said Commis- 

 sioners, affix the corporate seal to good and sufficient deeds of 

 conveyance, with or without covenants of warranty, and such 

 other covenants as the said Commissioners shall from time to 

 require and prepare ; and the said Commissioners shall cause 

 the said deeds to be delivered to the respective purchasers 

 upon the receipt of the consideration stipulated to be paid 

 therefor. 



Sec. 3. All moneys that shall be received upon such sales, after 

 deducting the expenses of sale and conveyancing, with the amount 

 hereinafter authorized to be borrowed, with interest, shall be forth- 

 with paid over by the said Park Commissioners to the Commis- 

 sioners of the Sinking Fund of the said city, to be by them held 

 as part of the general fund created, and to be created, for the re- 

 demption, according to their legal priorities, of all bonds issued for 

 the payment of lands taken for Prospect Park ; and within four 



