the city, a small part being in Flatbusb, adjacent to tbe city, and 

 particularly described as follows, viz : Commencing at the inter- 

 section of Douglass street and Washington avenue; running thence 

 southerly along Washington avenue to the city line, at Montgom- 

 ery street ; thence southwesterly in a straight line to the intersec- 

 tion of the city line and Ninth street ; thence northwesterly along 

 Ninth street to Tenth avenue ; thence northerly along Tenth 

 avenue to Third street ; thence northwesterly along Third street 

 to the centre of the block between Eighth and Ninth avenues ; 

 thence northerly in a line parallel with Ninth avenue to Douglass 

 street ; thence easterly along Douglass street to Washington 

 avenue, the place of beginning, containing about two hundred 

 and fifty acres, exclusive of Elatbush avenue and the reservoir, 

 which, together, coutaiu seventeen acres, making the whole area 

 of the park about two hundred and sixty-seven acres. 



This land is designated on the map hereto annexed, by the letter 

 A, as Mount Prospect Park. The estimated present value of 

 this land, with the buildings thereon, is one million of dollars. 



2. The piece of land situated at, and adjacent to the receiving 

 reservoir of the Nassau water works, at Ridgewood, lying partly 

 in the county of Kings and partly in the county of Queens, and 

 designated ou said map by the letter B. 



3. The piece of land situated at what is commonly called Bay 

 Ridge, and designated on the map hereto annexed by the letter C. 



The Commissioners recommend that these three pieces of land 

 be reserved for city parks, for the general benefit of the city of 

 Brooklyn and the county of Kings. 



4. They also recommend that a piece of land, of about twenty- 

 five acres, situated at East New York, in the town of New Lots, 

 to be taken from the southerly portion of the lands of the heirs 

 of White Howard, deceased, be taken and reserved for a parade 

 ground. This land is designated on the map by the letter D. 



That the three following described pieces of land be taken and 

 reserved as local parks, to be paid for on the principle of assess- 

 ment adopted in the case of Washington park, in this city, if no 

 other principle should be deemed more equitable and expedient, 

 viz : 



First. — All that parcel of land, situated on Brooklyn Heights, 

 overlooking the East river, the Bay, the city of New York, and 

 the shores of New Jersey, and lying between Remsen, Montague, 

 and Furman streets and Pierrepont Place, and designated on said 



