REPORT 



Department of Parks. 



Department of Parks. ) 



Room No. 12, City Hall, V 



Brooklyn, January 7, 1890. ) 



To the Honorable the Common Council: 



Gentlemen : 



In compliance with the terms of the Charter, the Commis- 

 sioners of the Department of Parks hereby furnish your 

 Honorable Body with a full report of their proceedings for 

 the year 1889, embracing a detailed statement of their re- 

 ceipts and expenditures for that time. 



The total amount available for Park purposes for 1889, 

 outside of the $500,000 appropriated by the Legislature in 

 1888, for new parks and improvements in and about Pros- 

 pect Park, was $443,186.65 ; of this amount, $401,304.57 was 

 voted by the Board of Estimate, $9,500.00 by the Board of 

 Supervisors of Kings County, $3,800.00 by the Common 

 Council for Sunday Music, and $28,582.08 being balances 

 over from 1888. 



From this amount there has been paid out $322,892,60, 

 leaaving a balance in the City Treasury and the National 

 City Bank of $120,294.05. 



