sufficiently developed, to enable them to act with entire 

 confidence therein. 



In immediate connection with the subject of approaches 

 to the Park, arises the question of laying out streets and 

 avenues over that extensive tract of land which lies south- 

 erly from and beyond the limits of the Park, and which 

 must, at no distant day, become the abode of a vast multi- 

 tude of people. The importance of attending to this matter 

 at this time, is the more obvious, from the fact that this 

 tract will soon form a portion of our City, and hence the 

 necessity of projecting its streets and avenues in such a 

 manner as to connect them with our own, consistently with 

 public convenience, and with due regard to the promotion 

 of the public health. 



It is of no less importance to our neighbors, that the mis- 

 takes and confusion should be avoided which are necessarily 

 incident to the laying out of the suburbs of a large town by 

 individuals, who do not usually act in concert, or with any 

 comprehensive consideration of their common interests. 

 When a plan shall have been prepared, with the advan- 

 tages of a thorough study of all the topograpical conditions 

 of the district, and of its general relations to the City, on 

 the one side, and to the adjoining country on the other, and 

 with a due consideration of the various requirements which 

 may be expected to arise, as its population increases ; and 

 such plan shall have been made a public record, owners of 

 property will of course, conform their transfers of land and 

 the erection of houses, to the line of streets and avenues 

 there laid down, while the corporate authorities will be 

 thereby guided in the opening, working ami grading of 

 streets and avenues, and the introduction of water and sew- 

 erage thereon. The Commissioners, cannot therefore, with- 

 hold the expression of their unqualified approval of the pro- 

 ject of a law, which they are informed will engage the atten- 



