the Court for the purpose, have completed their task to 

 the satisfaction <>t' the Board, at a very moderate expense 

 to the parties interested. 



The Commissioners regret to say that the bill which 

 was introduced into the Legislature last spring for the 

 laying out of streets and avenues throughout the county 

 of Kings, beyond the city of Brooklyn, tailed to become 

 a law. Their views on this important subject; the ad- 

 vantages — municipal, financial, and sanitary — of properly 

 adjusting and connecting the streets and avenues of 

 this rapidly growing suburb of the city, with our own 

 thoroughfares; and the great inconvenience, loss and 

 confusion which must arise from a neglect of this 

 work, were stated in a former report, and need not here 

 be repeated. They take this occasion, however, to 

 add, that the evils of delay are becoming every day more 

 apparent, in consequence of the large amount of property 

 in the country towns which is being mapped out into 

 city lots, and sold for purposes of improvement. Every 

 proprietor who brings his lots into market, and cuts up 

 his farm for sale, seems to lay out his streets and avenues, 

 and arrange his property according to his own fancy or 

 supposed advantage, without reference to the public con- 

 venience, and without knowing, in fact, what the public 

 requirements really are. The Board has always, even at 

 the risk of sometimes appearing to step beyond the exact 

 line of its duty, been solicitous to point out difficulties 

 arising from the loss of valuable improvements, which 

 are too frequently destroyed in the progress of subse- 

 quent advances of the city, and which a more prudent 

 foresight might easily have prevented. The Board can 

 do nothing further at this time than to call the attention 

 of the parties more immediately interested to the subject, 

 and to express the hope that it will receive from the 



