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upon ; and any such special report may be filed, and proceed- . commis- 



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LngS may be had to conlinn (lie same, and tin- snnr ina\ lie cmi 

 firmed in the same manner and with like effect as is provided j',^'.';' r „" ,J0n 

 herein in relation to other reports of said Commissioners ; and 

 upon the confirmation of any such special report, the amount of 

 the awards thus confirmed shall be paid in the same manner as 

 if such awards had been made in a general report of said Com- 

 missioners, and duly confirmed. 



§ 10. Before proceeding to discharge any of their duties, the . Commto- 

 Commissioners shall respectively take and subscribe an oath in tafcenoath. 

 writing, before some officer, authorized by law to administer 

 oaths, honestly and faithfully to discharge the duties which shall 

 devolve upon them in pursuance of this act, which oath shall be 

 filed in the office of the Clerk of the county of Kings. Said 

 Commissioners shall proceed, as soon as may be after their ap- 

 pointment, to discharge the duties of their trust, and to make 

 and complete their estimates, and awards and reports, as here- 

 inbefore provided ; and every estimate, award and report so 

 made shall be signed by at least a majority of said Commis- 

 sioners, and filed in the office of the Clerk of the county of 

 Kings, and notice thereof given to the' Counsel of the Corpora- 

 tion of said city of Brooklyn. Within twenty days after receiv- 

 ing such notice of the filing of any report of said Commissioners, Proceed- 

 said Corporation Counsel shall give notice by publication for ten ^ t0 TQ c °*~ t 

 days in two daily papers of said city, that he will at the then of commis- 

 next ensuing Special Term of the Court aforesaid, and at the time slonei ' s - 

 and place to be specified in such notice, present such report for 

 confirmation ; and if said Corporation Counsel shall not, within 

 the time above prescribed, cause such report to be presented for 

 continuation, then such notice maybe given, and said report may 

 be presented for confirmation, as above prescribed, by any party 

 whose lands are to be taken, and to whom compensation is esti- 

 mated and awarded by such report ; and thereupon all such pro- 

 ceedings as are provided for in the fifth section of an act entitled, 

 "An act to provide for the opening of Washington Park, on 

 Fort Greene, in the city of Brooklyn,"* passed April twenty- 

 seventh, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, shall be had for the 

 confirmation of said report, or for the revisal and correction 

 thereof, until a report shall be made or returned in the premises, 

 which the Court shall confirm ; and any such report, when so 

 confirmed by the said Court, shall be filed in the Office of the 

 Clerk of the county of Kings, and shall be iiiial and conclusive 



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