Legislature that decided action which its importance 

 manifestly demands. 



The propriety, if not the absolute necessity, of an ex- 

 tension of Prospect Park at its western angle, so as to allow 

 the principal drive in that direction to be carried out 

 according to the original design, has been repeatedly urged 

 in former reports of the Board, and the Legislature was 

 on more than one occasion applied to . for permission 

 to make the desired acquisition ; but without success. 

 The Commissioners have now, however, the pleasure 

 of stating that an act was passed at the last session, 

 authorizing this extension, and directing the Board to 

 apply to the Supreme Court for the appointment of 

 Commissioners to estimate the value of the land so 

 taken. Messrs. Teunis G. Bergen, Henry W. Slocum ? 

 Crawford C. Smith, Henry C. Murphy, Jr., and Edwin 

 K. Scranton, well known citizens of Brooklyn, were 

 selected by the Court to perform this duty; and it is 

 understood that their report is nearly ready for publi- 

 cation. The land in question consists of twelve blocks of 

 ground, lying between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and 

 Third and Fifteenth streets, and might, when its annexa- 

 tion was first suggested by the Board, have been obtained 

 for a comparatively small price. Its present value, how. 

 ever, has been much increased within the last two years 

 from various causes, especially by its vicinity to the Park, 

 and its acquisition must now necessarily be somewhat 

 costly to the City, but the Board indulge the hope that 

 the forthcoming report of these Commissioners will be of 

 such a character, as to justify the Board in asking the 

 Court to ratify and confirm the same. When these pro- 

 ceedings shall have been completed, Prospect Park will 

 extend over the whole area embraced within its original 

 design, and any further extension of its boundaries, would, 

 in the judgment of the Commissioners, not only tend 



