. Relazione della Commissione Bronx River Parkway: Nominato sotto il capitolo 669 delle leggi del 1906. E a Bronx Park, e quelle grandi istituzioni, il giardino botanico di New York e il parco zoologico di New York, che si trovano nel BronxPark, e alla parte della contea di Westchester attraverso cui il thestream corre. Che il Consiglio sentiva la necessità dall'outsetof azione immediata se il fiume doveva essere salvato, e concluse che la sua conservazione era importante non solo per la città di NewYork ma per la contea di Westchester. Nella ricerca di un precedente per l'azione per salvare il fiume, theBoard ha trovato che esso

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. Report of the Bronx River Parkway Commission : appointed under chapter 669 of the laws of 1906. e to Bronx Park, and those great institutions, the New York Botanical Garden andthe New York Zoological Park, which are located in the BronxPark, and to the portion of Westchester County through which thestream runs. That the Board felt the necessity from the outsetof immediate action if the river was to be saved, and concludedthat its preservation was important not only to the City of NewYork but to Westchester County. In looking for a precedent for action to save the river, theBoard found that it was not necessary to go abroad where suchaction is quite usual, but that here at home enlightened communi-ties had already commenced to take such steps, as for instance inthe case of the Wissahickon, in Philadelphia, and of the CharlesRiver, in Boston, and it also found on investigation that through-out the Union municipalities were awakening to the necessity oftaking concerted action in order to preserve tracts of unusual nat-ural beauty from destruction and to maintain them for public use.. Under the terms of the Act, the commission was required—ifit should decide in favor of creating a reservation to preserve theBronx River—to prepare a map or plan of said proposed reserva-tion, showing the lands necessary to be taken, and to include inits report an estimate of the cost of taking the lands necessaryto constitute such reservation, and to report its views as to howsuch cost should be met. Having unanimously decided that the reservation should becreated, the Board instructed its engineer to prepare a map or planfollowing certain boundaries as to extent which were indicated bythe Commission. The area taken being limited by the considerationof the cost which the acquisition of the land to be taken wouldentail, but always including such amount of land as was neces-sary to carry out the purpose of the Act under which the Com-mission was appointed. This map or plan was not comp

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