Section 1. Hunting park transferred to commissioners
The care and management of The Hunting Park, in the City of Philadelphia, is hereby transferred and committed to the commissioners of Fairmount Park, who shall be, and they are hereby authorized and required to take charge of the same, and lay out, enclose, plant and adorn the same; and who shall possess and exercise the like powers and authorities, in every particular, over the said Hunting Park, as now by existing laws, or hereafter by such as may be passed, they now have, or may hereafter come to have, over Fairmount Park, in the City of Philadelphia. 1871, May 15, P.L. 873, Sec. 1. Section 2. It shall and may be lawful for said commissioners to survey, locate, lay out and establish an avenue, which shall not be less than one hundred feet in width, which shall extend from Hunting park to Fairmount park, connecting the two parks with each other, at such points as the commissioners aforesaid may think best; and all and singular the provisions of existing laws relating to Fairmount park, concerning the mode of acquiring possession of land and of the title to land, are hereby to the land and property necessary, in the judgment of said commission, to be required in order to the laying out and establishment of said avenue; the said avenue shall be laid out, paved and adorned as a park road by said commissioners, and shall be under their police control and supervision.