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standing, or that may be hereafter erected, on any lot fronting or to 

 front, on either Union or Degraw streets so narrowed, shall ever be used 

 for any purpose other than a stable, carriage house, conservatory for 

 plants, or green house ; but no livery or railway stable, or car house, 

 shall at any time be erected, or maintained, upon any of the said lots. 

 And at no time shall there be erected, established or carried on, in any 

 manner whatever, upon any land to be affected by the said widenings, 

 or either of them, any slaughter house, tallow chandlery, furnace, foun- 

 dry, nail or other factory, or any manufactory for making starch, glue, 

 varnish, vitriol, oil, or gas, or for tanning, dressing, repairing or keeping 

 skins, hides, or leather, or any distillery, brewery, or sugar bakery, lime 

 kiln, railway or other stable, or depot, or any other manufactory, trade, 

 business or calling, which may be in any wise dangerous, noxious, or 

 offensive, to the neighboring inhabitants. 



§4. The Commissioners of Prospect Park are hereby directed to take 

 proceedings, within sixty days after the passage of this Act, to open, 

 grade, and otherwise improve the said several streets, described in the 

 First and Second Sections of this Act. And for thepurpose of determin- 

 ing the amount to be paid to the owners of the lands and tenements re- 

 quired to be taken for the purposes of the several changes and improve- 

 ments contemplated by this Act, the said Park Commissioners shall 

 cause application to be made to the Supreme Court, in the Second Ju- 

 dicial District, at a Special Term thereof, upon a notice to be personally 

 served upon the Counsel of the said City, and to be also published ten 

 days, successively, in the Corporation newspapers, for the appointment 

 of three Commissioners to estimate the expense of such widenings and 

 openings, and the amount of damages to be sustained by the owners of 

 land, and all other persons to be affected thereby, and to apportion and 

 assess the same, as hereinafter directed, and the Court shall thereupon 

 proceed to make such appointment. 



§ 5. Before any assessment for such widening or opening is made, the 

 Commissioners of Prospect Park shall, by resolution, fix a district of 

 assessment, beyond which the assessment therefor shall not extend. 



§ 6. The Commissioners so to be appointed by the Court, shall, after 

 having been duly sworn, proceed to estimate such expenses and dam- 

 ages ; and in making the estimate, they shall include the damages, if 

 any, to be sustained by any person or jiersons, for being so obliged to 

 build back from the line or sides of any of the said several streets, or 

 for being restricted in the use of the lots fronting on said streets, as 

 specified in the Third Section of this Act ; and after their report there- 

 on shall have been confirmed by the said Court, they shall apportion 

 and assess the amount thereof, in such manner as they shall deem just 



