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ference with other minds, will hereafter be presented for dis- 

 cussion and adoption. That which is of immediate importance 

 is to determine to keep the lands, and suitably improve them. 

 The details of improvement will wait to be matured and pre- 

 sented hereafter ; and while the name which has been attached 

 to the sketch, " University Park," appears to the Committee 

 not otherwise than appropriate and pleasantly significant, it 

 will remain of course for the Commission to accept it, or to 

 substitute for it any other which is preferred. " Reservoir 

 Park " hardly seems sufficient. " The Far-view Park " has 

 occurred to one or two, as associating it with while dis- 

 tinguishing it from the Prospect Park to which it is adjacent. 

 But this is a matter of minor detail. 



In accordance with the views thus cursorily presented, the 

 Committee offer the following Resolutions, and urge the adop- 

 tion of them by the Board : 



Resolved, That, in the judgment of the Board of Park Com- 

 missioners, it is in the highest degree desirable for the city to 

 retain that part of the East Side Lands remaining unsold, and 

 lying between the Eastern Parkway and the city line, to 

 acquire also, if it can be done at a reasonable price, an addi- 

 tional piece of adjoining land, of say four or five acres, lying 

 beyond the city line ; and to improve the whole tract as a 

 public park. 



Resolved, further, That, in conference with the Mayor, and 

 the Corporation Counsel, the necessary steps be immediately 

 taken by the President and the Executive Committee of this 

 Board to secure such local or general legislation as may be 

 found needful for the accomplishment of this important public 

 purpose. 



Besolved, finally, That discussion of particular plans for 

 the improvement of these lands for park purposes be post- 

 poned, till the Board shall have been authorized and em- 

 powered to enter upon them, and to treat them for the uses 



