"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. 



The People of the State of Neio York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows: 



Section 1. John Greenwood, J. Carson Brevoort, William 

 Wall, James Humphrey, John A. Cross, Nathaniel Briggs, 

 Abraham J. Berry, Samuel S. Powell, Thomas H. Rodman, 

 Nathan B. Morse, Thomas G. Talmage, Jesse C. Smith, Dan- 

 iel Maujer, William H. Peck and Luther B. Wyman, or such of 

 them as shall undertake the office of this commission, are hereby 

 appointed Commissioners to select and locate such grounds in 

 the city of Brooklyn, and adjacent thereto, as may, in their 

 opinion, be proper and desirable to be reserved and set apart 

 for Public Parks, and also for a Parade Ground for said city; 

 and they shall report such selection and location to the Common 

 Council of said city, on or before the first day of November 

 next, and also to the next Legislature, upon the assembling 

 thereof. 



§ 2. The said Commissioners shall receive no compensation 

 for their services, under this act, but they are hereby authorized 

 to procure maps and plans of the grounds so selected and loca- 

 ted, and to employ surveyors for that purpose at an expense of 

 not exceeding the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars; and the 

 same shall be a charge upon the said city of Brooklyn, and shall 

 be paid as other city charges. 



§ 3. The said Commissioners shall make such selection and 

 location, in view of the present condition and future growth and 

 wants of said city; and the first meeting of the Commissioners 

 shall be held on the first Monday of May next, at twelve o'clock 

 at noon, at the Mayor's office, in the City Hall in said city. 



§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately." 



The gentlemen named in the above act entered upon 

 the discharge of their duties, with that earnest interest 

 in the welfare of the city which had previously distin- 

 guished most of them in other public positions. 



