REPORT 



COMMISSIONERS OF PROSPECT PARK. 



To tlie Honorable, the Mayor and Common Council of tin 

 ( 'it >f of Brooklyn : 



The Commissioners of Prospect Park present this lit'] tori 

 of their proceedings, for the year 18G7, to the Honorable, 

 the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Brooklyn; 

 trusting, that the results of the operations which they arc 

 about to detail, will prove satisfactory to the Common 

 Council, as well as to our citizens in general. With a full 

 appreciation of the great responsibility of the trust com- 

 mitted to them, they are still cheered by the reflection, that 

 while they are laboring to secure to their fellow citizens the 

 advantages of a beautiful and healthful pleasure ground, 

 which must soon prove as conspicuous for its moral, as for 

 its material effects upon our city ; they are, at the same 

 time, strengthening that great bond of social sympathy, 

 which should universally pervade a great commercial com- 

 munity, if we would have a sure guarantee of its perma- 

 nence and success. 



Their last Annual Report informed the Common Council 

 of the intention of the Commissioners to apply to the 

 Legislature, for authority to annex twelve blocks of ground, 

 at the northwesterly angle of the Park, as being, in their 

 judgment, indispensably necessary to the completion of tie- 



