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§ 3. The said Commissioners may apply to the Supreme Court in the 

 second judicial district at any special term thereof, upon a notice to be 

 published ten days successively in two newspapers printed in the City of 

 Brooklyn for the appointment of five commissioners of estimate and 

 assessment, for the purposes of this act ; and the Court shall thereupon 

 proceed to their appointment as directed by an act passed May second, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled " An act to amend an Act to 

 lay out a Public Park and Parade Ground for the City of Brooklyn, and 

 to alter the Commissioners' Map of said city," passed April seventeenth, 

 eighteen hundred and sixty. 



§ 4. The commissioners so to be appointed shall estimate the value 

 of the lands and premises taken by this act, and the loss and damage to 

 be sustained by the owners or other persons interested therein, in conse- 

 quence of their relinquishing the same to the city. And after their 

 report thereon shall have been confirmed by the said court, they shall 

 apportion such part thereof, together with such part of the whole amount 

 of awards and expenses heretofore reported to and confirmed by the said 

 court, for all lands heretofore taken and now constituting Prospect Park, 

 as they may deem just and proper, upon any lands outside of the said 

 park which they shall deem to be benefitted by the opening of the said 

 park, in proportion to such benefit. One twentieth part of the amount 

 thus apportioned, shall be annually assessed in each and every year, for 

 twenty successive years, upon the lands respectively charged therewith, 

 together with interest from the time of the confirmation of the report on 

 assessment, to be computed from year to year, upon the respective 

 amounts remaining unpaid, at the time of making such annual assess- 

 ment ; which interest shall be added to said assessment and form part 

 thereof. And the said assessments and interests shall be annually 

 included in the taxes to be levied upon such lands, and shall be levied 

 and collected in the same manner as other taxes upon real estate annu- 

 ally for twenty successive years. The proceeds of such collections, 

 shall, immediately after their receipt, be paid over to the Commissioners 

 of the Sinking Fund in the City of Brooklyn, to be applied to the redemp- 

 tion of all city bonds, issued and to be issued, for the payment of the 

 purchase and improvement of lands taken for said park. But any person 

 interested in the said lands or any of them, may at any time pay to the 

 said commissioners of the sinking fund, the amount so to be assessed 

 thereon with interest to the time of payment ; and thereupon his said 

 lands shall be discharged from the said assessment. 



§ 5. The Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment heretofore ap- 

 pointed in pursuance of an act entitled " An act to extend the boun- 

 daries of Prospect Park in the City of Brooklyn," passed April thirtieth. 



