In re Commissioners of Central Park
New York Supreme Court
MOTION to confirm the report of the commissioners appointed to acquire land for the widening and laying out of the Bloomingdale road, or Broadway, between Fifty-ninth and One hundred and Fifty-fifth streets in the city of New York; the road to be of a general width of one hundred and fifty feet.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Ingraham, J.
The objection taken to these proceedings, on the ground that the act is unconstitutional, cannot be sustained. The power, it is alleged, to make the application, which by the act is vested in the Commissioners of the Central Park,. should have been given to the common council, and the objectors claim the act on that account to be unconstitutional. The common council never had authority, since 1807, to lay out any streets or public places in that part of the city which was *302embraced in the map of the commissioners, filed under the act of 1807. Their power was below the…
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- In re CarpenterNew York County Court, Ulster County · 1895
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