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EASTWOOD AECH. 



A financial statement of the receipts and expenditures of 

 the Commission for the current year forms part of this re- 

 port, and is applicable to the construction of all the smaller 

 City Parks, as well as of Prospect Park. It includes, also, 

 a detail of the expenditures upon each Park, with the object 

 of such expenditure. In addition thereto will be found a 

 statement of the fund for the general maintenance of the 

 Parks now under the charge of the Commissioners, which 

 was levied in the tax of the previous year and placed in 

 their hands for that purpose. The amount received on this 

 account, it will be seen, was not sufficient to defray the ex- 

 penses of the year, and the deficiency must necessarily 1 >e 

 made up temporarily from the maintenance fund of the year 

 1870. When the requisition for this fund was made upon 

 the joint Board of Common Council and Supervisors, as au- 

 thorized l>y the law of 1868, it was, of course, in advance 



