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the County Clerk of Kings County and with the City Clerk of Brooklyn, in which 

 certificates he shall designate said park by an appropriate name, and thereupon said 

 Commissioner of Parks shall have the exclusive government, management and con- 

 trol, subject, however, to the laws of the State, of said park or parks, with all of 

 the powers and duties now conferred upon him as Commissioner of Parks of the 

 city of Brooklyn, with reference to the parks, squares, parkways and public places 

 in said city, by Chapter Five Hundred and Eighty-three of the Laws of Eighteen 

 Hundred and Eighty-eight, entitled "An Act to revise and combine in a single act 

 all existing special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of Brook- 

 lyn," and especially by title sixteen of said act, entitled " department of parks,''* 

 and all acts amendatory of said Chapter five hundred and eighty-three of the Laws 

 of Eighteen Hundred and Eighty-eight, and of said title sixteen of said act. 



Section IX. The said park or parks shall be exempt from all assessments 

 and taxes, and no streets or avenues shall be laid out, opened or used therein, ex- 

 cept with the written consent of said Park Commissioner first obtained. And in 

 the event of said park including within its limits any street or avenue heretofore 

 opened or used by the public, the same shall not be closed, but shall be under the 

 control, supervision, management and repair of said Park Commissioner, and the 

 town or city having the care and custody of said street or avenue is hereby re- 

 lieved therefrom and of any responsibility in relation thereto. 



Section X. Whenever the County of Kings shall have become vested with 

 the title to said park or parks, as aforesaid, said Park Commissioner may sell any 

 buildings, improvements and other materials being within the limits of said park 

 or parks, and belonging to said county, which in his judgment shall not be re- 

 quired for the purposes of said park, the proceeds of which shall be devoted to 

 the improvement of said park. 



Section XL This act shall take effect immediately. 



