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taining about twenty-five acres, is hereby declared to be a pub- 

 lic place, to be known as the Parade Ground, and which shall 

 be a charge upon the county of Kings, as hereinafter provided, 

 and shall be under the management and control of the Supervi- 

 sors thereof. 



§ 3. The aforesaid pieces of land shall, from and after the 

 passage of this act, be public places, and the lands in the first 

 section of this act mentioned, shall be deemed to have been 

 taken by said city of Brooklyn, for public use, as and for a 

 Park and public park, and to have been declared open as a public place, 

 declared l w ith the same effect as if the whole of the same had been within 

 open. the city of Brooklyn, and as if they had been taken and declared 



open under and in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled 

 " An act to revise and amend the several acts relating to the 

 city of Brooklyn," passed April fourth, eighteen hundred and 

 fifty, and the acts amendatory thereof, except as herein other- 

 wise provided, and with the same effect as if the same had been 

 Commis- originally laid clown upon the Commissioners' map of the city of 

 ^' map Brooklyn, and from and after the passage of this act, they shall 

 be and form a part of said city of Brooklyn, and of said Commis- 

 sioners' map ; and the parts of all streets, avenues and highways, 

 (except Flatbush avenue and Third street,) laid out as running 

 through said pieces of land, are hereby closed and discontinued 

 and stricken from the said Commissioners' map, so far as the 

 same would run through or intersect said pieces of land, and the 

 land in the second section of this act mentioned shall be deemed 

 to have been taken by the county of Kings, as and for a parade 

 ground. 



commis- § 4. Three discreet and competent persons, being citizens of 

 Estimate the state of New York, shall be appointed to act as Commis- 

 and Assess- siouers of Estimate and Assessment, in relation to the taking 

 appointed, and the value of the land mentioned in the first section of this 

 act ; and three other persons shall also be appointed Commis- 

 sioners of Estimate, in relation to the taking, and the value of 

 the lands mentioned in the second section of this act. All of 

 said Commissioners shall be appointed in the manner provided 

 by an act entitled "An act to provide for the opening of Wash- 

 ington Park, on Fort Greene, in the city of Brooklyn,"* passed 

 April 27, 1841, except that such Commissioners shall be ap- 

 pointed by the Supreme Court of the Second Judicial District, 

 at any Special Term thereof, and all other proceedings in any 



* Appendix A. 



