of the term then vacant, by a majority of the ballots of the remaining 

 members of the Board; and upon such ballotings it shall be no objection 

 to a candidate that he has once been a member of the Board. 



§ 5. The said Board shall, in the month of January, of every year, 

 make and render to the Common Council of said City, a full report of 

 their proceedings during the preceding, year, with a detailed state- 

 ment of their receipts and expenditiires. And all ordinances or rules 

 which they shall at any time adoj^t for the regulation, use and manage- 

 ment of the said Parks, shall immediately thereafter be published for 

 at least ten days, in two daily newspapers printed in said City. No 

 member of the said Board shall receive any compensation for his ser- 

 vices ; and it shall be a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprison- 

 ment, for any Commissioner to be in any way, directly or indirectly, 

 interested in any contract for services to be rendered, or materials to 

 be furnished for or on account of the said Parks, or either of them. 



None of the said Commissioners, nor any person, whether in the em- 

 ploy of said Commissioners or otherwise, shall have power to create 

 any debt, obligation or liability, for or on account of the said Board, 

 or the moneys or property under its control, except by the express au- 

 thority of the Board, conferred at a meeting thereof, duly convened.— 

 (Act of May 2d, 1SG1— Sec 24.) 



§ 6. For the purpose of providing the means of laying out, con- 

 structing and improving Prospect Park, the Mayor, Comptroller, and 

 City Clerk of the said City, are hereby authorized and required to 

 create and issue, at such times and in such amounts as the said Com- 

 missioners shall, by resolution direct, the Bonds of the said City, pay- 

 able within fifty years from the date thereof, and bearing an interest 

 not exceeding seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually. The 

 Bonds so to be issued shall not exceed three millions of dollars in 

 amount, including the Bonds already issued for such purposes ; and 

 shall be sold by or under the direction of the said Comptroller, at not 

 less than par, either at public or private sale ; and the moneys to arise 

 therefrom shall be called the Brooklyn Park Improvement Fund. All 

 Bonds heretofore issued for the improvement of Prospect Park, shall 

 constitute a portion of the same Fund ; and all the provisions of the 

 Act passed May second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled " An 

 Act to lay out a Public Park and Parade Ground for the City of Brook- 

 lyn, and to alter the Commissioners' Map of said City, passed April 

 seventeenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one," which relates to the re- 

 demption of Bonds, and payment of awards, and improvements, and 

 the creation and management of a sinking fund applicable thereto, shall 



