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like manner annually levied and collected, in addition to the 

 interest aforesaid, a sum which, together with the amounts above 

 required to be levied and collected, and the accumulations 

 thereof, will, with its accumulations, be adequate to pay and dis- 

 charge the bonds to be issued under this act by the maturity 

 thereof, which said several sums shall be, from time to time, 

 and each year, paid over to the Commissioners of the Sinking 

 Fund of the city of Brooklyn, to be held and managed by them, 

 and shall be applied to the payment of the interest upon said 

 bonds as it shall become payable, and to the full and final re- 

 demption of said bonds, and for no other purpose. And it shall 

 be the duty of the Mayor and Comptroller of the said city to 

 estimate and ascertain the amounts required to be so added to 

 the general tax, by virtue of this section, and to transmit a state- 

 ment of the same in each year to the Board of Supervisors of the 

 county of Kings, in time to have such amount included in the 

 general tax of said city, for that year ; and it shall be the duty 

 of said Supervisors to cause such amount to be included in such 

 supervisors general tax. And said Supervisors shall also annually provide by 

 to levy tax. tax f QV ^ ie payment of the principal and interest of the bonds to 

 be issued by the said county of Kings, by virtue of this act. 

 And in making the levy of taxes in this section prescribed, the 

 said Supervisors shall so apportion and levy the same, as that 

 all sums of money which shall be levied for the purpose of pay- 

 ing principal and interest of the bonds which may have been 

 issued on account of the purchase, improvement and ornamen- 

 Prospect ° r tation of the lands comprising the said Prospect Park, shall 

 Park to be |j e ] ev ied and collected exclusivelv upon and from the taxable 



on twelve . . „ - L 



first wards, property within the first twelve wards or said city. 



Cornmis- § 15. The Commissioners appointed by virtue of section four 

 employ Svu^ of this act shall have authority to employ surveyors and to use 

 veyors and anv ma p 011 fii e 01 . belonging to said city, and to cause maps to 

 maps. be made as may be necessary ; and said Commissioners shall be 



allowed a compensation of three dollars per day for their time 

 actually employed in discharging their duties as such Commis- 

 sioners ; and all such compensation, and the necessary expenses 

 of the Commissioners in discharging their duties, shall be 

 allowed on taxation by the Court aforesaid, and paid by said 

 city of Brooklyn, and shall be added to and form a part of the 

 cost of the said Park. 



§ 16. The said Prospect Park shall be under the exclusive 

 control and management of a Board of Commissioners, to con- 

 sist of seven persons, who shall be named and styled " The 



