“AN ACT to authorize the construction of a railroad on Green Point avenue, and other streets and avenues, in the city of Brooklyn.

Passed April 26, 1806.  The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

Section 1.  It shall be lawful for the corporation to be formed by… Jonathan Ware,… and their associates, under and pursuant to the act entitled ‘An act to authorize the formation of railroad corporations and to regulate the same,’ passed April second, eighteen hundred and fifty, to construct and operate, with horse power only, a railroad with a double track, as hereinafter provided, and to convey passengers thereon, for compensation, through, upon and along the following streets and avenues in the city of Brooklyn, viz: commencing on Green Point avenue, with a double track, to Orchard street, thence through and along Orchard street to Van Cott avenue; thence through and along Van Cott avenue to Union avenue; thence through and along Union avenue to Hayward street; thence through and along Hayward street to Wythe avenue; thence through and along Wythe avenue to Franklin avenue; thence through and along Franklin avenue to Warren street; thence through and along Warren street to Vanderbuilt street; thence through and along Vanderbuilt avenue to Flatbush avenue; thence through and Flatbush avenue to Ninth avenue; thence through and along Ninth avenue to Twenty-first street and Greenwood cemetery, together with the necessary connections, turnouts and switches for the proper working and accommodation of said road on said route; or routes; provided the Prospect Park commissioners consent to the use of said Ninth avenue; if not, along the Eighth avenue to the points above named…”

Reference Data:

Laws of the State of New York, Vol. 2, by New York (State), 1866, pages 1829-30