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In pursuance of the recommendations in the foregoing- 

 report, the Legislature, on the 17th day of April, 1860, 

 passed the following act, entitled 



"AN ACT 



To lay out a Public Park and a Parade Ground for the city of 

 Brooklyn, and to alter the Commissioners' map of said city. 



Passed April 17th, I860 — three-fifths being present. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate 

 and Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. All the following tracts, pieces and parcels of land Boundaries 

 in this act described, having been selected and located for a i4rk. r ° spect 

 public park and for a parade ground for the city of Brooklyn, 

 by the Commissioners appointed for that purpose, by the act 

 entitled "An act to authorize the selection and location of 

 certain grounds for public parks and also for a parade ground 

 for the city of Brooklyn," passed April eighteenth, eighteen 

 hundred and fifty-nine ; the said tracts, pieces and parcels of 

 land, are hereby declared to be public places, that is to say : 

 All that piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the 

 city of Brooklyn, and town of Flatbush, and bounded and 

 described as follows : — Commencing at the intersection of War- 

 ren street and Washington avenue; running thence southerly 

 along Washington avenue to the city line at Montgomery street; 

 thence southwesterly in a straight line to a point one thousand 

 feet easterly in a straight line drawn from the intersection of 

 Ninth street with the city line; thence to the intersection of the 

 city line and Ninth street ; thence northwesterly along Ninth 

 street to Tenth avenue; thence northerly along Tenth avenue to 

 the northerly side of Third street; thence northwesterly along 

 Third street to Ninth avenue; thence northerly along Ninth 

 avenue to Flatbush avenue; thence along Flatbush avenue to 

 Vanderbilt avenue; thence along Vanderbilt avenue to Warren 

 street; thence easterly along Warren street to Washington ave- 

 nue, at the place of beginning, is hereby declared to be a public 

 place to be known as Prospect Park, and which shall be a 

 charge upon said city as hereinafter provided. 



§ 2. All that piece of land situate, lying and being in the Parade 

 town of New Lots, to be taken from the southerly part of the Ground " 

 lauds belonging to the heirs of White Howard, deceased, cou- 



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