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days after the expiration of the said ten days, he shall proceed to sell such of the said several parcels of lands Sale of lands upon which the said assessments shall remain unpaid sessments. at public auction, for the lowest term of years for which any person will take the same, and pay the amount remaining due, with ten per cent. interest added thereto, the said collector first giving thirty days' notice Notice thereof. of the time and place of sale, by affixing the same in at least four conspicuous places in the town of Flatbush, and also at the City Hall, in the city of Brooklyn.

certificates to purchasers.

§ 9. Upon such sale being made, the said collector Collector to give shall give certificates of sale to the purchasers, and shall also execute and deliver conveyances of the lands so purchased, unless the same shall have been redeemed within two years from the time of sale, by the payment to the purchaser or to the said Comptroller, for his use, of the sum paid by him, with interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum.

10. This act shall take effect immediately. (a)

(a) Section 10, amended by Chap. 265, Laws 1875.

To execute conveyances if redeemed.

lands are not

Commissioners of Assessment to estimate value of lands taken.

of awards, etc.,

tion of report.

How apportioned.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An Act for the further extension of Prospect Park, in the city of Brooklyn," passed April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

Passed April 28, 1870, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 4 of an act entitled, "An Act for the further extension of Prospect Park, in the city of Brooklyn," passed April twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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4. The Commissioners so to be appointed shall estimate the value of the lands and premises taken by this act, and the loss and damage to be sustained by the owners, or other persons interested therein in consequence of their relinquishing the same to the city; and after their report thereon shall have been confirmed Apportionment by the said court, they shall apportion such part thereafter confirma- of, together with such part of the whole amount of awards and expenses heretofore reported to and confirmed by the said court, for all lands heretofore taken and now constituting Prospect Park, as they may deem just and proper, upon any lands outside of the said park which they shall deem to be benefited by the opening of the said park, in proportion to such benefit. the amount thus apportioned, only one-twentieth part shall be annually assessed in each and every year, for twenty successive years, and be a lien, from the time of such annual assessment, upon the lands respectively charged therewith, together with interest from the time of the confirmation of the report on assessment, to be computed from year to year upon the respective amounts remaining unpaid at the time of making such annual assessment, which interest shall be added to said annual assessment and form part thereof. And the said assessments and interest shall be annually included in the taxes to be levied upon such lands, and shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes upon real estate, annually for twenty successive years.

Assessment to run twenty years.

Tax therefor to be collected annually.

Proceeds; how paid over and applied.

The proceeds of such collections shall, immediately after their receipt, be paid over to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund in the city of Brooklyn, to be applied

to the redemption of all city bonds issued and to be issued for the payment of the purchase and improvement of lands taken for said park. But any person interested in the said lands, or any of them, may at any time pay to the said Commissioners of the Sinking Fund the amount so to be assessed thereon, with interest to the time of payment, and thereupon his said lands shall be discharged from the said assessment.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Compensation of Commissioners, and how paid.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An Act in relation to the Coney Island plank road, in the County of Kings," passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

Passed May 2, 1870; three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The second section of the act entitled, "An Act in relation to the Coney Island plank road, in the County of Kings," passed May eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, is hereby amended by adding after the word "vacated," in the last line of the said section, the following words: "The Commissioners appointed under this section shall be severally entitled to receive four dollars a day for each day necessarily employed in the discharge of their duties; and their comStationery, sur pensation, with stationery and other necessary expenses, and the compensation of the surveyor, counsel and other persons to be employed under the foregoing sections of this act, or of the act hereinbefore referred to, shall, when properly taxed by one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, form part of the general expenses of the said improvement."

veyors and counsel fees to be included.

No assessment

Plank Road

Company for

cost of improvement.

§ 2. Nothing in the said act, or the act passed May to be made upon fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled, "An Act to provide for widening the Coney Island piank road, in the County of Kings, and for the subsequent management thereof," shall be construed to authorize the assessment of any portion of the cost or expenses of the improvements authorized to be made by the last mentioned act upon the franchise, rights or privileges of the Coney Island Plank Road Company. The said company may extend and maintain its gates across said road as widened.

Company may extend gates. across road as widened.

§3. This act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT to provide for the further improvement of Prospect, Tompkins and Washington Parks, in the city of Brooklyn.

Passed May 2, 1870, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Issue of addibonds for Park improvement.

tional City

SECTION 1. In order to provide for the further improvement of Prospect Park in the city of Brooklyn, the Mayor, Comptroller and City Clerk of that city are hereby authorized and required to make and issue, at such times and in such amounts as the Brooklyn Park Commissioners shall by resolution direct, the bonds of the said city payable within fifty years from the date thereof, and bearing an interest not exceeding seven per Rate of interest, cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, which bonds shall not exceed two millions of dollars in amount, and not more than five hundred thousand dollars of said amount shall be issued during the year eighteen hundred and seventy, nor more than five hundred thousand dollars in any one year thereafter.

and when payable.

Sale of bonds
by Comptroller.

from.

Acts applicable payment of

to issue and

bonds.

§ 2. The bonds so to be issued shall be sold by or under the direction of the Comptroller, at not less than par, either at public or private sale; and the moneys to arise therefrom shall form part of the Brooklyn park Disposition of improvement fund now provided by law, and be forth- moneys there– with paid over to the Brooklyn Park Commissioners. All the provisions of the act passed May two, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled, "An act to lay out a public park and parade ground for the city of Brooklyn and to alter the Commissioners' map of said city," passed April seventeen, eighteen hundred and sixty, which relate to the redemption of bonds authorized by that act, and the creationand management of a sinking fund applicable thereto, shall apply to and regulate all bonds that may be issued for the purposes of this act; and for the payment of all such bonds with interest to accrue thereon, all lands within the boundaries of the said park, lying west of Flatbush avenue, are hereby specfically pledged.

Park lands

pledged there

for.

§ 3. The Brooklyn Park Commissioners are hereby Improvement of authorized and directed to improve Tompkins Park in Tompkin's style corresponding with the other city parks, but at an

a

Park.

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