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plan to be devised or adopted by them, and for that purpose they 

 may cause the same to be graded, paved, curbed, and guttered, and 

 shade trees planted thereon, and may lay out and construct such 

 carriage ways, sidewalks, and areas, as they may deem expedient, 

 and such improvements may be made in sections, and from time to 

 time, if they shall so elect. The said Park Commissioners may, in 

 their discretion, purchase or lease one or more gravel pits, for the 

 purpose of its improvement and subsequent maintenance, and pay 

 for the same out of any fund in their hands applicable to the con- 

 struction of Prospect Park. All expenses incident to such improve- 

 ments, or either or any of them, after having been duly certified by 

 the said Park Commissioners to the said Commissioners of Esti- 

 mate and Assessment, shall be by them apportioned and assessed 

 upon the property in their judgment benefited thereby, within the 

 district of assessment so to be fixed by the said Park Commission- 

 ers, and their reports thereon shall be subject to objection and 

 appeal, and to confirmation, in the same manner as their said former 

 assessment reports. (As amended by chap. 726 of the Laws of 

 1872.) 



Sec. 8. The said Park Commissioners may contract in writing 

 for the making of all or any of the said improvements, after inviting 

 proposals for doing the work, and furnishing the materials, by pub- 

 lication for one week in said two daily newspapers, filing a copy of 

 each of said contracts in the office of the treasurer of the county of 

 Kings, within ten days after the making of the same. And they may 

 from time to time, as the work progresses, but not oftener than once 

 a month, issue to the contractors certificates of the amount of work 

 and materials done and furnished under such contracts. The said 

 treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay seventy-five per 

 cent, of such amount to said contractors or their assigns ; and upon 

 the final completion of their said contracts, and upon filing a certifi- 

 cate thereof in the office of the said treasurer, he shall pay to the 

 said contractors, or their assigns, the balance of the several amounts 

 due under their contracts. The said treasurer shall also pay to the 

 surveyor, commissioners, counsel, and other persons to be employed 

 upon the said work, and upon the laying of the said improvement 

 assessments, such amount for services and necessary disbursements 

 as shall be specified in the assessment reports after they shall have 

 been duly confirmed by the court. For the purpose of furnishing 

 the money required to make such payments, the county of Kings is 

 authorized, and the proper officers thereof are hereby directed to 

 issue certificates of indebtedness to the necessary amount, not ex- 

 ceeding three hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest at seven 

 per cent, per annum, payable on or before the expiration of ten 

 years from the date thereof, interest thereon to be paid semi-annu- 

 ally, and to sell the same for not less than the par value thereof. 

 The Board of Supervisors of the county of Kings shall, annually, 

 make provision by tax for the payment of interest to accrue on such 

 certificate, and levy the same on the several parcels of property 

 assessed as part of the general tax ; and in the year preceding the 

 maturity of such certificate, the amount of any assessment remaining 



