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COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



By the 20th section of the Act of the Assembly of 

 April 17th, 1860, 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," it is 

 made the duty of the Commissioners of Prospect Park, 

 in the month of January of every year, to make to the 

 Common Council of the City of Brooklyn a full report 

 of their proceedings, and a detailed statement of all their 

 receipts and expenditures. 



In complying with this provision of the law, the 

 Commissioners deem it proper to introduce their first 

 Annual Report with a history of the successive legisla- 

 tive enactments relating to the subject upon which they 

 are called to act. 



On the 18th day of April, 1859, at the solicitation of 

 the citizens of Brooklyn, the Legislature of the State of 

 New- York passed the following act, entitled 



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