TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF T1IK 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK, 



For the tear 1871. 



To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



The Brooklyn Park Commissioners respectfully present this 

 report of their proceedings for the year 1871, and they append 

 a statement of their receipts and expenditures during the same 

 period, with a full detail of active operations on the several 

 parks under their charge, as shown by the reports of their land- 

 scape architects and chief engineer. 



One of the most important, and to our taxpayers by far the 

 most interesting, of the various transactions which engaged the 

 attention of the Board at the time of presenting their last 

 annual report, was the establishment of the city's right to sell 

 a portion of land in Prospect Park situated on the easterly side 

 of Flatbush avenue. As the validity of the act of the Legisla- 

 ture which authorized a sale had been publicly impeached, a 

 cloud was cast upon the title which it became necessary to re- 

 move before the property could be brought into market with 

 any probability of a successful result. And for the purpose of 

 testing the question before our highest legal tribunal, proceed- 

 ings had then been taken by the Commissioners. 



A full statement of the case as presented by the sale to Mr. 

 Armstrong of a lot of land within the disputed territory is con- 

 tained in that report, and need not here be repeated. The 

 Commissioners have now the pleasure of reporting that the 

 results of that litigation have proved entirely satisfactory, and 

 fully justify the position assumed by the Board in regard to 

 the sale of this land. 



