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Commissioners of Prospect Park ;" a majority of said Board of Co £™£ of 

 Commissioners in office for the time being shall constitute a Blotters for 

 quorum for the transaction of business, and no action of said l°™™™ ent 

 Board shall be final or binding, unless it shall receive the 

 approval of a majority of the said Board, whose names shall be 

 recorded in its minutes. 



§ 11. James S. T. Stranahan, Thomas H. Rodman, E. W. commis- 

 Piske, R. 11. Thompson, Thomas G. Talmage, Stephen Haynes, 6ioner8 ' 

 and Cornelius J. Spragne, are hereby appointed, and shall con- 

 stitute the first Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park ; they 

 shall hold office as such Commissioners for three years from the 

 passage of this act. No member of said Board shall receive any 

 compensation for his services, except the President or Treasurer, 

 but each Commissioner shall nevertheless be entitled to receive 

 for his personal expenses, in visiting and superintending said 

 Park, a sum not exceeding- three hundred dollars per annum, 

 lu ease of a vacancy, the same may be filled by the remaining Vacancies, 

 members of the Board, for the residue of the term then vacant ; how fiUed - 

 and all vacancies occasioned by expiration of the terms of office 

 shall be filled by the Mayor, by and with the advice and consent 

 of the Common Council of said city. 



§ IS. The said Board shall have the full and exclusive power Powers of 

 to goveru, manage and direct the said Park ; to lay out and Board - 

 regulate the same ; to pass ordinances for the regulation and 

 government thereof ; to appoint such engineers, surveyors, clerks 

 and other officers, except a police force, as may be necessary; to 

 prescribe and define their respective duties, and authority; to 

 fix the amount of their compensation; and generally in regard 

 to said Park, they shall possess all the power and authority now 

 by law conferred on, or possessed by the Common Council of 

 said city, iu respect to the public squares and places in said city. 



§ 19. It shall be a misdemeanor for any Commissioner to be Misdemea- 

 directly x>r indirectly, in any way pecuniarily interested in any ^issioners 01 " 

 contract or work of any kind whatever, connected with said to be inter- 

 park, and it shall be the duty of any Commissioner or other per- tracts!" C ° n " 

 sons, who may have any knowledge or information of the viola- 

 tion of this provision, forthwith to report the same to the Mayor 

 of the city of Brooklyn, who shall present the facts of the case 

 to any Judge of the Supreme Court of the Second Judicial Dis- 

 trict. Such Judge shall hear, in a summary manner, such Com- 

 missioner in relation thereto, and any evidence he may offer, and 

 if, after such hearing, he shall be satisfied of the truth thereof, sion e? 3 m may 

 and shall so certify to the Mayor, he shall immediately remove be removed. 





