8 REPORT OF THE 



The duties should devolve upon one Commissioner, whose 

 entire time and thought should be devoted to the work, and 

 who should be directly responsible to the Mayor of the city. 



Such management and responsibility, aside from being in 

 direct harmony with the present Charter, would, we are confi- 

 dent, meet the approval of all who have given our parks and 

 their government any attention. 



We would therefore recommend such legislation as may be 

 necessary to accomplish this result. 



Respectfully, 



WM. B. KENDALL, 



President. 



Department of Finance, ) 



Comptroller's Office, City Hall. > 



Brooklyn, December 13, 1882. ) 



To the Honorable the Board of Brooklyn Park Commissioners'. 



Gentlemen : 



In compliance with the resolution passed by your honorable 

 body, July 7, last, and submitted to me July 8 : 



"That the Comptroller be respectfully requested to detail 

 from the service of the Board of Audit, or other force at his 

 command, without expense to this Department, competent 

 expert clerical force to examine and balance the books and 

 report the result of such examination to this Board, 7 ' I imme- 

 diately, after receipt of your request, directed Mr. Win. A. 

 Brown, the Chief Accountant of the Board of Audit, with the 

 help of Mr. Theodore A. Drake, to examine the accounts of 

 your Department up to the date of the commencement of your 

 adminstration of its affairs. You will perceive, from the an- 

 nexed report of Mr. Brown, the result of his labor, also the 

 reason of the apparent delay in its execution. 



