tion of ill** Legislature at its eoming session, to provide for 

 the laying out of streets, avenues and ]>nl>lie places, through- 

 out the County of Kings, outside of the City of Brooklyn. 



Since the las! Report <>t' the Board, operations on the 

 Park have steadily progressed. Commencing the year with 

 a moderate force, it lias Keen gradually increased as the 

 season would permit. Proceedings to acquire title to about 

 two hundred acres of land, which were authorized to be 

 taken by the law of 1866, having been completed, the 

 Commissioners entered upon the land and organized an 

 additional force of laborers to operate thereon. An ab- 

 stract of all the returns of the laboring force made to the 

 Comptroller during the year 1867, will be found appended to 

 this report, showing the whole force engaged, as well as its 

 general distribution among the different departments of 

 labor, at the expiration of every two weeks. 



The extent of ground which has been under treatment, 

 and on which more or less progress towards completion has 

 been made, is a little over two hundred and fifty acres. 

 For the drainage and water supply of this ground, over 

 twelve miles of pipe have been laid, at depths varying from 

 three to twenty-three feet. The improvement of fifty-seven 

 acres of the surface, besides that assigned for roads, walks, 

 and waters, has been fully completed. Nineteen thousand 

 feet in length of carriage and bridle road have been ad- 

 vanced in construction, of which over six thousand feet have 

 been finished. 



The construction of over seventeen thousand feet in length 

 of walk has been advanced, and about five thousand feet 

 of it concluded. Excavation has been commenced for the 

 Ponds over a surface of more than fifty acres, and the work 

 is complete over about six acres. About twenty thousand 

 cubic yards of masonry, twenty-four thousand feet of curb 

 stone, and seventy-one thousand feet of Belgian Pavement 



