FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 



OF THE 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



To the Common Council of the City of Brooklyn: 



The Board of Commissioners of Prospect Park respect- 

 fully submit to your honorable body their Fifth Annual 

 Report, regretting that circumstances beyond their control 

 have interfered with a more ample development of the 

 important object of their appointment} than they are now 

 able to present. 



A former report of the Board intimated to the Common 

 Council that it could not actively enter upon the discharge 

 of its duties until after the report of the Commissioners of 

 Estimate and Assessment had been completed, and that 

 such report had been delayed by a litigation growing out 

 of the application to appoint the said Commissioners. 



This report was subsequently filed in the Office of the 

 County Clerk, but before any proceedings could be taken 

 for its confirmation, it was deemed necessary to suspend 

 further action until an application could be made to the 

 Legislature to correct certain informalities in the act, so 

 that the final confirmation of their report did not take place 

 until October, 1SG4. 



The lands embraced in their report extend over a space 

 of nearly three hundred and twenty (320) acres, and the 



