AN ACT 



to provide foe the improvement and maintenance of the public 

 Pares of the City of Brooklyn. Passed May 1st, 1868. 



Tlie People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly^ do enact as follows: 



Section 1. The Commissioners of Prospect Park, in the City of 

 Brooklyn, shall have full and exclusive power to lay out, regulate, im- 

 prove and maintain, the Public Parks of the City of Brooklyn, and to 

 govern, manage and direct the same, and the public use thereof ; to 

 make ordinances, rules and regulations for their proper management 

 and government ; to appoint such engineers, surveyors, clerks and 

 other officers, and such police force as they may deem expedient, and 

 to prescribe and define their respective duties and authority ; to fix 

 and regulate the compensation to be paid to the several persons so to 

 be employed by them ; to open, widen and grade the northerly side of 

 Ninth Avenue, between Montgomery and Union street, and so much of 

 Fifteenth street as was extended to meet the Coney Island Road, and 

 laid down on the City Map, by an act entitled " An act to extend the 

 boundaries of Prospect Park, in the City of Brooklyn," passed April 

 30th, 1866; to locate, erect and maintain fountains on the said Parks, 

 or either of them, as well as upon the streets and avenues, which 

 form the boundaries thereof, or intersect the same ; to erect and 

 maintain iron and other fences, around the said Parks ; to flag and 

 reflag the sidewalks of said streets, roads or avenues, on the side which 

 is adjacent to the said Parks, to increase the width thereof, and to set 

 and reset curb and gutter stones, shade trees and lamp posts thereon ; 

 ami to determine the particular location of any railroad track which is 

 now or may lie hereafter placciLupon such road, street or avenue. 



They may also in the name of the City, or of the said Board of Com- 

 missioners, at their option, bring any action which they may deem 

 proper, to recover damages for the breach of any agreement, express 



