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sidr in the City of Brooklyn, or shall negleci to attend the meetings 

 of the Board, for three monthly meetings, consecutively, after having 

 been duly notified of the time and place of meeting, his office shall 

 be deemed to have been vacated ; and after the present number of 

 Commissioners shall for any reason have been reduced to eight, each 

 succeeding vacancy shall be filled for the residue of the term then 

 vacant, by a majority of the ballots of the remaining members of 

 the Board; and upon such ballotings it shall be no objection to a 

 candidate that he has once been a member of the Board. 



§ 5. The said Board shall, in the month of January, of every 

 year, make and render to the Common Council of said City, a full 

 report of their proceedings during the preceeding year, with a de- 

 tailed statement of their receipts and expenditures. And all ordi- 

 nances or rules which they shall at any time adopt for the regula- 

 tion, use and management of the said Parks, shall immediately 

 thereafter be published for at least ten days, in two daily newspa- 

 pers printed in said City. No member of the said Board shall re- 

 ceive any compensation for his services; and it shall be a misde- 

 meanor punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any Commission- 

 er to be in any way, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract 

 for services to be rendered, or materials to be furnished for or on 

 account of the said Parks, or either of them. 



None of the said Commissioners, nor any person, whether in the 

 employ of said Commissioners or otherwise, shall have power to 

 create any debt, obligation or liability, for or on account of the said 

 Board, or the moneys or property under its control, except by the 

 express authority of the Board, conferred at a meeting thereof, duly 

 convened. — Act of May 2d, 1861. Sec. 24. 



$ 0. For the purpose of providing the means of laying out, con- 

 structing and improving Prospect Park, the Mayor, Comptroller, 

 and City Clerk of the said City, are hereby authorized and required 

 to create and issue, at such times and in such amounts as the said 

 Commissioners shall, by resolution direct, the Bonds of the said 

 City, payable within fifty years from the date thereof, and bearing 

 an interest not exceeding seven per cent, per annum, payable semi- 

 annually. The Bonds so to be issued shall not exceed three millions 

 of dollars in amount, including the Bonds already issued for such 

 purposes; and shall be sold by or under the direction of the 

 said Comptroller, at not less than par, either at public or private 

 sale; and the moneys to arise therefrom shall be called the Brook- 

 lyn Park Improvement Fund. All Bonds heretofore issued for the 

 improvement of Prospect Park, shall constitute a portion of the 

 same Fund ; and all the provisions of the Act passed May second, 



