AN ACT 



to open wd widen portions of sackett, douglass and president 



Streets, and otherwise alter the Commissioner's' .Map of 

 the City of Brooklyn. Passed May 6tii, 1868. 



The People of the State of Neio York, presented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Sectiox 1. Sackett street, in the City of Brooklyn, is hereby widened 

 from Washington Avenue easterly to the southerly limit or boundary 

 line of the said City, to the width of two hundred and ten feet, and 

 shall be opened to that width by adding seventy feet in width to each 

 side of the said street, as now laid down on the Commissioners' Map of 

 the said city. And President street and Douglass street are hereby also 

 widened from New York Avenue easterly to the said City line, to the 

 width of one hundred feet ; and shall be opened to that width by adding 

 fifteen feet in width to each side of the said several streets, as now laid 

 down on the said map. 



§ 2. So much of Degraw street as lies easterly from New Y r ork Ave- 

 nue, and extends to the said City limits, is hereby narrowed to the width 

 of thirty-five feet, by taking away thirty-five feet in width on the south- 

 erly side thereof; and so much of Union street as lies easterly from the 

 said Avenue, and extends to said City limits, is hereby also narrowed to 

 the width of thirty-five feet by taking away thirty-five feet in width 

 from the northerly side thereof; which said southerly side of Degraw 

 street, and northerly side of Union street, are hereby abandoned for 

 street purposes, and shall be stricken from the said City Map. 



§ 3. No buildings or other erections, except porches, piazzas, fences 

 fountains, and statuary, shall remain or be at any time placed upon any 

 of the lots, fronting upon either of the said streets, so to be widened, 

 within thirty-five feet from the line or sides of the said several streets 

 respectively. The intervening spaces of land on each side of the said 

 several streets, shall be used for court yards only, and may be planted 

 with trees and shrubbery, and otherwise ornamented, at the discretion 

 of the respective owners or occupants thereof. And no building now 



