REPORT 



OF THE 



BROOKLYN PARK COMMISSIONERS. 



To the Honorable, the Mayor and Common Council of 

 the City of Brooklyn : 



The Brooklyn Park Commissioners, in conformity to 

 the requirements of the law which appointed them to 

 office, and which prescribes and regulates their duties, 

 herewith present to the Honorable, the Mayor and 

 Common Council of the City, a report of their proceed- 

 ings for the year 1868, together with a statement of their 

 receipts and expenditures during the same period. 



Since the last Annual Report, the Commission, with 

 its official staff, has remained essentially unchanged, 

 except that Messrs. William Marshall and Isaac Van 

 Anden have been appointed Commissioners, to supply 

 vacancies which have occurred in the Board — the latter 

 to occupy the place made vacant by the death of our 

 late associate, Cornelius J. Sprague, Esq. By the decease 

 of this gentleman, park enterprise has lost one of its 

 earliest and firmest advocates, and the city a faithful 

 guardian of its interests. A wise Providence had pre- 

 viously deprived us of the valuable services of Dr. 

 Richard L. Thompson, a former secretary of the Board, and 

 of Ex-Mayor Thomas G. Talmadge, a zealous coadjutor in 



