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And the Commissioners here deem it worthy of notice in 

 passing, that the map annexed to that report is the same 

 design, without material alteration or addition, upon which 

 the landscape architects of the Board have been working 

 from the beginning of their operations, and upon which 

 they still continue to work. 



Being satisfied with the favorable expression of public 

 opinion thus obtained, the Commissioners applied to the 

 Legislature for the additional territory required to carry 

 out their enlarged plan of improvement, at the same time 

 asking for authority to sell so much of the land on the east 

 side of Flatbush Avenue as was not embraced in the plan, 

 in order that they might have means to pay for what they 

 proposed to annex on the other side. They obtained a 

 portion of the land required, but, much to their regret, were 

 refused the fifty acres referred to in a former part of this 

 report, and which constituted one of the prominent features 

 of their design. Their request for permission to sell was 

 also denied, although it had received the approval of the 

 Senate, and is believed to have influenced that body in the 

 passage of the bill for Park extension, which was acted 

 upon by them on the same day. 



After Park areas had been thus far extended, the Com- 

 missioners, hoping that the residue of the land required to 

 carry out the improved plan would yet be conceded to 

 them, deemed it expedient to commence the improvement. 

 They began upon that part of the ground which was ori- 

 ginally selected for a Park, and where their expenditures 

 had been limited in amount : but it proved to be the most 

 difficult, and consequently the most expensive to operate 

 upon. Among other difficulties, it became necessary to ac- 

 commodate the Park grades to those established for the 

 surrounding streets of the City, which grades had recent- 



