OUTER BELT PARK COMMISSION. 



President Henry G. Foreman, of the County Board, recom- 

 mended in a message submitted on August 3, 1903, that the Board 

 authorize the appointment of an Outer Belt Park Commission. 



On the same date the Board by resolution granted the author- 

 ity for the appointment of a Commission of twenty-nine members 

 to take up the matter of providing a satisfactory system of out- 

 lying preserves and connecting parkways and to do all things 

 necessary to accomplish that end. 



The numerical composition of the Commission was pre- 

 scribed as folloivs: Ten citizens representing the city and the 

 county, the Mayor of Chicago and four aldermen, three members 

 of each park commission, and four members and the President of 

 the County Board. 



President Foreman on January 18, 1904, made the appoint- 

 ments and they were concurred in by the County Board. 



At the first meeting of the Commission, held on April 21, 

 1904, Henry G. Foreman was chosen temporary chairman and 

 William C. Graves, temporary secretary, and the chair was au- 

 thorized to appoint a Committee on Organization, the chair to be 

 a member thereof. A motion zvas passed that the County Board 

 be requested to print the address of the president in pamphlet 

 form for general distribution. The County Board on April 25 

 ordered the address so printed. 



