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wood by an avenue unequalled for beauty in this country, at a 

 moderate expense, and prove beneficial, as we believe, to the 

 property on the line of improvement. For the purposes of a 

 drive, that avenue will furnish all needful accommodation. 



All which is respectfully submitted, 



Brooklyn, February 3, 1860. 



J. GREENWOOD, 

 THOMAS G. TALMAGE, 

 L. B. WYMAN, 

 THOS. H. RODMAN, 

 JESSE C. SMITH, 

 SAMUEL S. POWELL, 

 JOHN A. CROSS, 

 ABRM. J. BERRY, 

 DANL. MAUJER, 

 J. CARSON BREVOORT, 

 N. B. MORSE, 

 WM. H. PECK. 



To John Greenwood, Esq., 



President of the Board of Park Commissioners: 



Sir : I have been requested to furnish a statistical table of 

 the valuation of real and personal estate, as returned by the 

 Assessors for twenty years last past, together with the average 

 rate of taxation in the territory now comprising the city of 

 Brooklyn, and my opinion has also been solicited as to the 

 probability of its future increase of value for purposes of taxa- 

 tion. 



The annexed tabular statement I have compiled from the 

 records, except for the years 1852 and 1853, the records for 

 those years being imperfect. The statement is in part an esti- 

 mate, but will be found sufficiently accurate for your purpose. 



With regard to the unexampled increase of our city, it has 

 been frequently asserted, and as frequently disputed or doubted, 

 that the population has, for the past forty years, doubled every 

 eighth year. To prove that such is the fact, it is only necessary 

 to have recourse to a few figures, as follows : 



The population of the town of Brooklyn in 1814 was 3,805 ; 

 which doubled in eight years, would, in 1822, be 1,610; the 

 next eight years would, in 1830, be 15,220, (the census for that 



