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city, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, pay- 

 able semi-annually. The said bonds shall be issued so as to aggregate not more 

 than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and they shall be issued as nearly 

 as may be in separate series of fifty thousand dollars respectively, and so as to 

 fall due and become payable in not less than twenty years, and not more than 

 twenty-five years from their respective dates. The proceeds received from the 

 sale of said bonds shall be paid into the City Treasury, to the credit of a fund to 

 be known as the "Park Purchase Fund," to be expended, from time to time, as 

 may be required, and in accordance with the second section of this act. And no 

 further bonds shall be issued under the provisions of chapter two hundred and 

 forty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, as amended by chapter 

 seventy-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two. 



Section II. With the express specific assent of the Mayor, the Brooklyn 

 Park Commissioner, on behalf of the City of Brooklyn, is hereby authorized, 

 from time to time, to select and locate such land or lands as may, in his opinion, 

 be proper and desirable to be set apart for and used as public park or parks, or as 

 an addition to any public park or parks, and to purchase, acquire and hold the 

 same for such park purposes. If the said Brooklyn Park Commissioner shall be 

 unable to agree with the owner or owners of any real estate required for such 

 purposes, aforesaid, for the purchase thereof, he shall have the right to acquire the 

 same in the manner, and by the like proceedings as are authorized and provided 

 by chapter twenty-three of the New York Code of Civil Procedure, and all other 

 acts amendatory thereof or in addition thereto, and, for that purpose, such acts 

 shall be construed as applicable to the said Brooklyn Park Commissioner, as far as 

 may be, in like manner, as if he were named therein, and such modifications may 

 be made in the formal part of any proceedings in order that the same may apply 

 to the said Commissioner, as shall be approved of by the Supreme Court, and the 

 said Court may make such orders and regulations as to the mode and manner of 

 conducting the proceedings, and all things relative thereto, so as to effectuate and 

 make the same valid for acquiring said lands. The proceeds of the sale of said 

 bonds authorized by section one of this act shall be used solely for the payment 

 for said lands for public park purposes, and the said moneys shall be paid out for 

 any of such purposes, from time to time, as shall be required, upon the requisi- 

 tion of said Park Commissioner, with the written approval of the said Mayor. 



Section III. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby 

 repealed. 



Section IV. This act shall take effect immediately. 



