Excerpt from Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park: January, 1863 The Board of Commissioners of the Central Park, in compliance With the provisions of the statute, respectfully present this report of its proceedings for the year ending with the 3lst day of December, 1862. The year opened With the public mind engrossed With the operations of the General Government, the interest in Which has continued, to its close, paramount and all absorbing. The effect of these operations upon the condition of operative industry has been very apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.