amount of damages i<> be sustained by the owners of property, or other 

 persons to be affected thereby, and to apportion and assess the same as 

 hereinafter described, and the Court shall thereupon proceed to make 

 such appointment. 



§ 3, The Commissioners so to be appointed, shall, after having been 

 duly sworn, proceed to estimate such expenses and damages ; and after 

 their report thereon shall have been confirmed by the said Court, they 

 shall apportion and assess the same, upon the lands and premises bene- 

 fitted by the said improvements within the district of assessment, to 

 be fixed by the Park Commissioners, in the same maimer as the Board 

 of Assessors ol the said city are by law directed to make similar assess- 

 ments. And all laws now in force relative to the opening and widening 

 of streets or avenues in the City of Brooklyn, subsequent to the appoint- 

 ment of Commissioners of estimate and the proceedings thereon, and 

 the duties of the several persons to he employed therein, substituting 

 the said Park Commissioners in place of the Common Council and Street 

 Commissioner of said city, and substituting also the Commissioners of 

 Estimate and Assessment in place of the Board of Assessors of the said 

 city, and including the levy and collection of the assessments for such 

 improvements and the lien thereof so far as they are not inconsistent 

 with the provisions of this act, shall apply to and regulate all duties 

 arising out of, or proceedings that may be had or taken under this act. 

 But such proceedings shall continue to be under the direction of the 

 said Park Commissioners, who shall act when required as the Common 

 Council and Street Commissioner of said city would be required to act 

 in relation thereto, and who shall employ an attorney and counsel 

 and all such surveyors, clerk, appraisers, and other agents as may be 

 required for the purpose of the said proceedings. 



£ 4. The Commissioners of Prospect Park now in office shall con- 

 tinue to hold office for four years after the expiration of their present 

 term of office, and until others are appointed in their places, and from 

 and after the passage of this Act, the Mayor of Brooklyn shall be ex- 

 officio a Commissioner of Prospect Park. They shall together consti- 

 tute a Board of Commissioners to be hereafter known as " The Brook- 

 lyn Park Commission," a majority of whom, for the time being, shall 

 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. If any of the 

 said Commissioners shall not reside in the City of Brooklyn, or shall 

 neglect to attend the meetings of the Board, for three monthly meetings, 

 consecutively, after having been duly notified of the time and place 

 of meeting, his office shall be deemed to have been vacated ; and after 

 the present number of Commissioners shall for any reason have been 

 reduced to eight, each succeeding vacancy shall be filled for the residue 



