A2T ACT 



for the further extension of prospect park ix the clty of 

 Brooklyn. Passed April 24th, 1868. 



The People of (/" State of New York, repesented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Commissioners of Prospect Park in the City of Brook- 

 lyn, are hereby authorized for and in behalf of the said city, to acquire 

 title to all those certain lots, pieces or parcels of land in said city, which, 

 taken together, arc described as follows : Beginning at the easterly cor- 

 ner of Ninth avenue and Third street and running thence south-westerly 

 along Ninth avenue to a point between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street, 

 which is upon the circumference of a circle of one hundred and fifty-four 

 feet radius, of which the centre is at the intersection of the middle line of 

 Ninth avenue with the middle line of Fifteenth street; thence westerly 

 and again easterly following said circumference for more than three- 

 fourths of said circle, to its intersection with the north-easterly side of 

 Fifteenth street ; thence south-easterly along said north-easterly side of 

 Fifteenth street to the easterly corner of Tenth avenue and Fifteenth 

 street; thence north-easterly along Tenth avenue and also along said 

 park to the north-easterly side of Third street ; and thence north-west- 

 erly along said street to Ninth avenue at the place of beginning. 



§ 2. The lands described in the last preceding section of this act, are 

 hereby declared to be a public place, and shall be deemed to have been 

 taken by the City of Brooklyn, and to have been opened for public use, 

 as an additional part of Prospect Park; and from and after the passage 

 of this act the said lands shall be laid down on the Commissioner's Map 

 of the said city as if the same had been originally laid down upon said 

 map, and had been taken and declared open as a Park pursuant to the 

 provisions of an act entitled " An act to revise and amend the several 

 acts relating to the City of Brooklyn," passed April fourth, eighteen 

 hundred and titty. And all streets, avenues and highways intersecting 

 the said lands or any part thereof, except Ninth avenue and Fifteenth 

 street, are hereby closed and discontinued and are stricken from the said 

 city map so far as they run through or intersect the said lands. 



