72 REPORT OF THE 



THE SHORE DRIVE. 



CHAPTER 758, LAWS OF 1894. 



An Act to Provide for the Selection, Laying Out, Construction and 

 Maintenance op a Public Driveway and Parkway, and for the 

 Acquisition of Riparian Rights in Connection Therewith 

 ys any County of this State Which Contains a City 

 the Population of Which City is in Excess of 

 Eight Hundred Thousand, and the Boundaries 

 of Which City are not Conterminous with 

 those of Said County, and also Provid- 

 ing the Means of Payment There- 

 for, and Maintenance There- 

 for and Creating a De- 

 partment of Parks for 

 Said County. 



Became a law May 22, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do 

 enact as follows : 



Section I. In any county of this State which contains a city the population 

 of which city is in excess of eight hundred thousand, and the boundaries of which 

 city are not conterminous with the boundaries of said county, the Mayor of said 

 city, in his discretion, may appoint seven disinterested persons, residents of said 

 county, who shall act as a commission for the purposes hereinafter set forth. 

 Each Commissioner shall qualify by taking the constitutional oath of office and 

 shall serve without pay. Said commission may employ such assistants as may be 

 necessary to its work and may fix their compensations, but the total expenses of 

 such commission shall not exceed five thousand dollars, which said sum, or so 

 much thereof as may be necessary, shall be paid out of the revenue fund of said 

 city, or any other fund which the chief fiscal officer of that city may designate, 

 upon vouchers of the commission approved by the Mayor. 



Section II. It shall be the duty of the commission provided for in the first 

 section of this act to select, to determine and to lay out a public driveway and 

 parkway in such county, with such public places, borders and appurtenances as 

 they shall consider best for the public interest, for such distances, between such 

 points, of such width, and on such lines as it shall determine ; and it shall also 

 have the power, and it shall be its duty to include in the plan of such public 

 driveway and parkway such riparian rights and such land under water which 

 shall adjoin or be appurtenant to any of the lands designated or selected for such 

 driveway or parkway, as they may deem best for the public interests, whether 



