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several streets described in the first and second sections of this 

 act. And for the purpose of determining the amount to be 

 paid to the owners of the lands and tenements required to be 

 taken for the purposes of the several changes and improve- 

 ments contemplated by this act, the said Park Commissioners 

 shall cause application to be made to the Supreme Court in the 

 Second Judicial District, at a special term thereof, upon a 

 notice to be personally served upon the counsel of the said 

 city, and to be also published ten days successively in the cor- 

 poration newspapers, for the appointment of three commis- 

 sioners to estimate the expense of such widenings and openings, 

 and the amount of damages to be sustained by the owners of 

 land, and all other persons to be affected thereby, and to appor- 

 tion and assess the same as hereinafter directed, and the court 

 shall thereupon proceed to make such appointment. 



§ 5. Before any assessment for such widening or opening 

 is made, the Commissioners of Prospect Park shall, by resolu- 

 tion, fix a district of assessment, beyond which the assessment 

 therefor shall not extend. 



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§ 6. The commissioners so to be appointed by the court 

 shall, after having been duly sworn, proceed to estimate such 

 expenses and damages ; and in making the estimate, they shall 

 include the damages, if any, to be sustained by any person or 

 persons for being so obliged to build back from the line or sides 

 of any of the said several streets, or for being restricted in the 

 use of the lots fronting on said streets, as specified in the third 

 section of this act ; and after their report thereon shall have 

 been confirmed by the said court, they shall apportion and 

 assess the amount thereof, in such manner as they shall deem 

 just and equitable, upon the lands and premises in their judg- 

 ment benefitted by the improvement, within the district of as- 

 sessment so to be limited, by the said Park Commissioners. 



§ 7. All laws now in force relative to widening, opening, 

 and improving streets and avenues in the city of Brooklyn, 

 subsequent to the appointment of Commissioners of Estimate, 



