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commercial or otherwise, and shall designate upon said plan the location of such 

 piers, wharves or docks as they may deem proper. Upon the completion of said 

 plan said commission shall file the same, together with a report as to the probable 

 cost of the land and riparian rights, including the land under water to be acquired 

 for such purposes, in the office of the Department of Parks of said city, and a 

 duplicate thereof in the office of the County Clerk of said county, and shall give 

 notice of such filing to the Mayor of said city. 



Section III. Immediately upon the receipt of said notice of the filing of 

 said plan and report, the Mayor of said city shall give notice thereof to the Comp- 

 troller or other chief fiscal officer of said city, to the auditor or other chief audit- 

 ing officer of said city, to the attorney and counsel, or other chief law officer of 

 said city, to the head of the Department of Parks of said city, to the Supervisor- 

 at-Large of said county, or in said case there be no such officer, then to the pres- 

 ident of the Board of Supervisors thereof, and to the County Treasurer of said 

 county, and shall in said notice appoint a time and place at which said officers 

 shall meet to consider said plans and report. Said officers shall meet at such time 

 and place so designated and shall fix upon a time when they shall meet to hear 

 objections to such plan and report, and shall give notice thereof to all parties 

 interested by publication of said notice twice a week for two successive weeks in 

 three newspapers, which shall be designated by them, published in said county. 

 Upon the day so fixed, said officers shall meet to hear objections to said plan and 

 report, and may adjourn from time to time for that purpose, as they may deem 

 best, but no further notice need be given. After hearing any objections to said 

 plan and report they shall consider the same, together with the objections thereto, 

 and if they approve said plan and report, notwithstanding said objections, they or 

 a majority of them shall confirm the same ; they shall cause to be filed with such 

 plan and report a certificate of such confirmation in the office of the Department 

 of Parks of said city. If they refuse to confirm said plan and report, the same 

 shall be returned to the commission hereinbefore provided for, with a statement 

 for the reasons for such action ; whereupon the said commission shall proceed to 

 reconsider their said plan and report and make such amendments therein as to 

 them may seem proper, and shall thereupon file said amended plan and report, in 

 the office of said Department of Parks, and the same proceedings shall be had 

 thereon as are provided for in regard to the original plan and report and until 

 the final confirmation thereof by said commission. Upon the final confirmation 

 of said plan and report, the care, custody and control of any highway or public 

 road, or any part of any highway or public road included in said plan and report, 

 shall immediately vest in the Department of Parks of said city, and it shall be 

 unlawful for any other authority of said city or county or of any town therein to 

 in any manner interfere with, encroach upon, or obstruct said highway or public 

 road, nor shall any streets, roads or highways be laid out across or over said high- 

 way or public road, nor shall any surface or elevated railroad be constructed 

 upon, along or across, either directly or diagonally, such public road or highway; 

 and it shall be the duty of the officer at the head of said Department of Parks of 

 said city to make such rules and regulations concerning the application and use 



