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the new county parks. 



CHAPTER 461, LAWS OF 1892. 



An Act for the Establishment and Government of a Public Park or 



Parks in the County of Kings, or Adjacent Thereto, and 



Providing that the Same Shall Be a Public 



Work of the County of Kings, and 



to Authorize Said County to 



Proytde for the Means 



Therefor by the 



Issue of Bonds. 



Approved by the Governor May 3, 1892. Passed, three-fifths being present. 



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

 as follows : 



Section I. The Commissioner of Parks of the City of Brooklyn is hereby 

 appointed a commissioner to select and locate such grounds in the County of Kings 

 or adjacent thereto as ma}' in his opinion be proper and desirable to be reserved 

 and set apart for a public park or parks. 



Section II. The said Commissioner, in the performance of the various 

 duties required by this act, is authorized to procure maps and plans of the 

 grounds so selected and located and to employ surveyors for that purpose, and 

 also to employ such clerks and counsel as it may be necessary for him. 



Section III. Notice of his first hearing to hear all parties interested in sites 

 for said park or parks shall be published for ten days successively (except Sun- 

 day) in at least two daily newspapers published in the County of Kings ; and such 

 adjournments shall be had and such inspection of sites suggested as he may deem 

 proper. The said Commissioner shall make such selection and location in view of 

 the present condition and future growth and wants of said county ; and upon his 

 determination of the lands so needed for said park, he shall make a report thereof, 

 together with a map showing the land so selected for the purpose of said Park. 

 After the report of said Commissioner shall have been duly made, it shall be filed, 

 together with said map, in the office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, and 

 notice of such filing and of application for the confirmation of said report at a 

 special term of the Supreme Court shall be given by publication daily (except 

 Sundays) in two newspapers published in the County of Kings, for at least ten 

 days immediately previous to the date of such application ; and upon the hearing 

 of such application all parties interested therein shall be heard, and the Court 

 upon such hearing shall either confirm such report or send the same back to said 



