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to the Greenwood Cemetry, to some spol within sight of the statue to 

 be erected in honor of the greal martyr of our late civil war. 



For months nasi the Park Commissioners have had lie fore them n plan 

 for the improvement of Washington Park, the probable cosl of which 

 has been estimated at $200,000. It' an iron fence is pu1 around the 

 ground according to the requirements of a recenl law of the Legislature, 

 I In- outlay will much exceed this sum ; and the execution of the work 

 has been kept in abeyance, because of a desire of some members of the 

 Hoard that the sentiments of their fellow citizens should first be known 

 on the subject; a statement of the foregoing facts and calculations 

 is therefore briefly presented in this report for their consideration. 



Brooklyn, January 28, 1868. 



A. A. LOW. 



T. J. BERGEN. 



A. B. BAYLIS. 



\Y. S. GRIFFITH. 



