THE LAW. 



The following Act of the Legislature in reference to 

 the rt Eastern Parkway and Boulevards " will be found 

 of interest : 



An Act to open and widen Portions of Sackett, Douglass, 

 and President Streets, and otherwise to alter the Com- 

 missioners' Map of the City of Brooklyn. Passed 

 May 6, 1868. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 

 and Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. Sackett street, in the city of Brooklyn, is here- 

 by widened from Washington avenue easterly to the southerly 

 limit or boundary line of the said city, to the width of two 

 hundred and ten feet, and shall be opened to that width by 

 adding seventy feet in width to each side of the said street, as 

 now laid down on the Commissioners' map of the said city ; 

 and President street and Douglass street are hereby also widened 

 from New York avenue easterly to the said city line, to the 

 width of one hundred feet ; and shall be opened to that width 

 by adding fifteen feet in width to. each side of the said several 

 streets, as now laid down on that map. 



§ 2. So much of Degraw street as lies easterly from New 

 York avenue, and extends to the said city limits, is hereby 

 narrowed to the width of thirty-five feet, by taking away thirty- 

 five feet in width on the southerly side thereof ; and so much 



