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may be acquired by the proceedings authorized in this act, in case the same can- 

 not be purchased by agreement, the County Treasurer of said county is hereby 

 authorized and directed to issue bonds of said county, bearing interest at a rate 

 not exceeding four per centum per annum, issued in series of one hundred thou- 

 sand dollars each, the first series to become due and payable in the year nineteen 

 hundred, and each succeeding series to become due and payable at yearly inter- 

 vals; and there shall be inserted in the tax budget of said county for the several 

 years for which said bonds are made payable a sufficient sum for the purpose of 

 paying the principal of said bonds as they mature, in each year a sufficient sum to 

 pay such interest as may become due and payable on said bonds. The proceeds 

 from the sale of said bonds shall be paid into the treasury of said county and 

 shall be paid out from time to time for the purposes herein provided, upon vouch- 

 ers certified by the officer at the head of said Department of Parks, and the attor- 

 ney and counsel of said city. 



Section VII. Upon the acquisition of the lands, property, estate and riparian 

 rights required for the development of the plans, said Department of Parks shall 

 proceed to lay out and construct such public driveway and parkway with such 

 public places, borders and appurtenances, wharves and piers, as may be fixed by 

 the plans filed in said Department of Parks ; and the government and control of 

 such public driveway and parkway, and public places, and appurtenances con- 

 nected therewith, shall be vested in said Department of Parks ; and the officer at 

 the head of said Department shall have power to make ordinances, rules 

 and regulations therefor; to appoint such police force as he may deem expedient ; 

 to prescribe and to define their duties and authority, and to fix and regulate their 

 compensation ; to seize and to impound all cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, 

 geese or other animals found running at large on such driveway or parkway ; to 

 impose a penalty not exceeding five dollars, with reasonable expenses, upon any 

 animals so seized, and to enforce the payment thereof in such manner as he may 

 by ordinance direct ; to bring any action in his name as such official to recover 

 damages for the breach of any agreement, express or implied, relating to or grow- 

 ing out of the management or improvement of such public work, for penalties 

 for the violation of any ordinance or for injuries to personal or to real property 

 appertaining to said public work. He shall, in the month of January, in each 

 year, make and render to the Board of Supervisors of said county, and to the 

 Common Council of said city a full report of his proceedings during the preced- 

 ing year, with a detailed statement of his receipts and expenditures. And to 

 provide the means for the purposes mentioned in this section, said County Treas- 

 urer of the county is hereby authorized and directed to issue certificates of said 

 county to an amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bear- 

 ing interest at a rate not to exceed four per centum per annum, to be issued in 

 series to fifty thousand dollars each, payable, respectively, in five, six, seven, eight 

 and nine years from the date of issue. The proceeds from said bonds shall be 

 paid into the treasury of said county, to be drawn upon from time to time, upon 

 vouchers duly verified by the officer at the head of said Department of Parks. 



