AN ACT 



To PROVIDE FOR WIDENING THE CONEV Isi.A \ l> Pl.ANK ROAD IN THE 



Count's of Kings, and foe the subsequent management 

 Thereof. Passed May 15th, 1868. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Prospect 

 Park, in the City of Brooklyn, by resolution adopted at a legal meet- 

 ing held by them, to order and direct the widening and extension 

 of the Coney Island Plank Road in Kings County, or any part thereof, 

 (hut such widening not to exceed forty feet,) in such maimer as they 

 shall judge expedient ; to fix a district or limit of assessment within 

 which the property benefitted shall he assessed to defray the expense of 

 such improvement, and to cause a proper survey and map of such pro- 

 posed improvement and assessment district to he made. Previous 

 notice of the time and place of such meeting, stating therein the inten- 

 tion of such Commissioners to take action under this Section, shall be 

 published fourteen days, successively, in all the daily newspapers printed 

 and published in the City of Brooklyn, and they shall hear parties in- 

 terested at the time and place specified, and at any subsequent time or 

 times to which the meeting shall be adjourned, in relation to the subject, 

 and such adjournments are hereby authorized. 



§ 2. The said Commissioners shall cause application to be made to the 

 Supreme Court of the Second Judicial District, and said Court may select 

 and appoint three disinterested persons, who shall be residents of said 

 County, to estimate and assess the expense of said improvement, and 

 tin' amount of damages, including the value of land taken, and benefits 

 to be sustained and derived therefrom, by the owners of such lands and 

 buildings, as may he effected thereby, and by the Coney Island Plank 

 Road Company; which said persons, after being duly sworn before 

 some officer authorized to administer oaths, faithfully to perform the 

 duties devolved upon them, shall diligently proceed with the same ; and 

 after the completion of such estimate and assessment, shall make a de- 



