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Subsequently you appointed as a member of the Fourth 

 Ward Mr. George Metcalfe, in place' of Mr. Talbot Root, who 

 was unable to serve. You also appointed as a member of the 

 Fifth Ward Mr. Henry Seguine of Rossville, to take the place of 

 Mr. George Metcalfe, assigned to the Committee of the Fourth 

 Ward, on account of his change of residence from the Fifth 

 Ward to the Fourth Ward, and you also appointed the Rev. David 

 funor t<> represent the Huguenot Association on the Committee 

 from the Fifth Ward. 



Pursuant to a call, the Committee met at the First National 

 Bank Building, St. George, Staten Island, on the 20th day of 

 November; Mr. Chas. II. Blair in the chair. Cornelius G. Kolff 

 was elected Secretary of the Committee. 



After a full discussion of the work to be performed by the 

 Committee, it was agreed that the committees representing the 

 different wards would meet for the purpose of formulating a plan 

 for the establishment of parks in their respective wards; and after 

 a number of meetings of the different Ward Committees were held, 

 a conference of all the Ward Committees was held, at which the 

 plans submitted by the different Ward Committees were ex- 

 amined, discussed, and in some instances were changed to meet 

 the requirements of harmony in the plan for the establishment 

 of parks, embracing the whole Borough . 



On the 11th day of December a meeting of the whole com- 

 mittee was held, and at this meeting each Ward Committee pre- 

 sented its report, accompanied by maps showing the sites se- 

 lected for parks, parkways, and public play-grounds; and after a 

 full discussion the reports were adopted and the Secretary of the 

 Committee was requested to embrace all of the reports, made in 

 a report to be made by the Committee of the Whole. This report 

 was submitted to your Committee at a meeting held in the First 

 National Bank Building on the 19th day of December, 1902, and 

 is now submitted to you, together with the resolutions passed at 

 this meeting, and accompanied by the separate reports made 

 by each committee from the five wards, to which are annexed 

 maps showing more fully the location and dimensions of the dif- 

 ferent sites. 



The report and resolutions adopted at the meeting ot the 

 iyth of December, 1902, anil which we now have the honor of 

 submitting to you, are as follows : 



