REPORT 



OF THE 



BROOKLYN PARK COMMISSIONERS. 



To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the 

 City of Brooklyn : 



The Brooklyn Park Commissioners respectfully submit 

 to the Common Council of the City this report of their 

 proceedings for the year 1869, with a statement of their 

 receipts and expenditures for the same period. 



Their last report referred to the proceedings of Commis- 

 sioners who had recently been appointed by the Supreme 

 Court to estimate the value of land added to Prospect Park 

 at its Western angle, and suggested the hope, that their' 

 forthcoming report on damages, would be of such a char- 

 acter as to justify the Board in asking the Supreme Court 

 to ratify and confirm the same. The report was soon after- 

 wards presented to the Board, and awarded to the owners 

 of land the damages sustained by them, amounting in the 

 whole to one million seven hundred and five thousand two 

 hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-two cents. This 

 amount, however, included the expense of the proceedings, 

 together with the expense of the subsequent proceedings 

 to assess property adjacent to the Park for special benefit ; 

 which yet remains to be done. Although the estimate-: 



