AN ACT, 



to provide for the improvement and maintenance of the 

 Public Parks of the City of Brooklyn. Passed May 

 1st, 1868. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Commissioners of Prospect Park, in the City of 

 Brooklyn, shall have full and exclusive power to lay out, regulate, 

 improve and maintain, the Public Parks of the City of Brooklyn, 

 and to govern, manage and direct the same, and the public use 

 thereof; to make ordinances, rules and regulations for their proper 

 management and government ; to appoint such engineers, survey- 

 ors, clerks and other officers, and such police force as they may 

 deem expedient, and to prescribe and define their respective duties 

 and authority ; to fix and regulate the compensation to be paid to 

 the several persons so to be employed by them ; to open, widen and 

 grade the northerly side of Ninth Avenue, between Montgomery 

 and Union street, and so much of Fifteenth street as was extended 

 to meet tbe Coney Island Eoad, and laid down on the City Map, by 

 an act entitled "An act to extend the boundaries of Prospect Park, 

 in the City of Brooklyn," passed April 30th, 1866 ; to locate, erect 

 and maintain fountains on the said Parks, or either of them, as 

 well as upon the streets and avenues, which form the boundaries 

 thereof, or intersect the same ; to erect and maintain iron and other 

 fences around the said Parks ; to flag and reflag the sidewalks of 

 said streets, roads or avenues, on the side which is adjacent to the 

 said Parks ; to increase the width thereof, and to set and reset curb 

 and gutter stones, shade trees and lamp posts thereon ; and to de- 

 termine the particular location of any railroad track which is now 

 or may be hereafter placed upon such road, street or avenue. 



They may also in the name of the City, or of the said Board of 

 Commissioners, at their option, bring any action which they may 

 deem proper, to recover damages for the breach of any agreement, 



