The construction of a subway under the Boston Common was held no diversion of land deeded for a training field and cow pasture; Codman v. Crocker, 203 Mass. 146, 89 N. E. 177, 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 980.
Running a street through a park dedicated by an owner to the public is unlawful; Price v Thompson, 48 Mo. 361; otherwise of a pleasure drive in a park reserved by the state; Com. v. Beaver Borough, 171 Pa. 542, Atl. 112 ; and of a speedway ; Holtz v. Diehl, 26 Misc. 224, 56 N. Y. Supp. 841. See Riverside v. MacLain, 210 III. 308, 71 N. E. 408, 66 L. R. A. 288, 102 Am. St. Rep. 164.
The erection of buildings in a park is un lawful : As barracks ; Appeal of Meigs, 62 Pa. 28, 1 Am. Rep. 372; school buildings ; Board of Education v. Kansas City, 62 Kan. 374, 63 Pac. 600; a jail; Flaten v. Moorehead; 51 Minn. 518, 53 N. W. 807, 19 L. R. A. 195. a city hall with a jail; Church v. Portland, 18 Or. 73, 22 Pac. 528, 6 L. R. A. 259 ; build ings ; Fessler v. Town of Union, 68 N. J. Eq. 657, 60 Atl. 1134; a town hall ; 45 L. J..Ch. N. S. 839; otherwise of a museum and li brary ; id.; or a building for the public ; Ross v. Long Branch, 73 N. J. L. 292, 63 Atl. 609. Monuments may be erected therein; Hoyt v. Gleason, 65 Fed. 685; and water pipes may be laid ; Howe v. Lowell, 171 Mass. 575, 51 N. E. 536. Part of a park may be used for agricultural purposes ; Huff v. Macon, 117
Ga. 428, 43 S. E. 708 ; and trees planted; Guttery v. Glenn, 201 Ill. 275, 66 N. E. 305; Burnet v. Bagg, 67 Barb. (N. Y.) 154.
It is held that individual dedications will be more .strictly construed than those made by the public; Spires v. Los Angeles, 150 Cal. 64, 87 Pac. 1026, 11 Ann. Cas. 465 ; River side v. MacLain, 210 Ill. 308, 71 N. E.• 408, 66 L. R. A. 288, 102 Am. St. Rep. 164.
The title in the municipality is said to be held in "a kind of trust relation to the peo ple" ; Codman v. Crocker, 203 Mass. 146, 89 N. E. 177, 25 L. R. A. (N. S.) 980.
A state may commit the management of property turned over to it by congress to park commissions rather than to the munici pality within whose limits it Is situated; Kerrigan v. Poole, 131 Mich. 305, 91 N. W. 163. Such commissioners may apportion the expenses of metropolitan parks among the towns in the park district; In re De las Casas, 180 Mass. 471, 62 N. E. 738. Its rules are valid only in so far as they are reason able under the conditions existing at. the time they are attacked ; Whitney 'v. Com., 190 Mass. 531, 77 N. E. 516.
As to the right of the municipality to make regulations for the preservation of order in a park or public square, see POLICE POWER; LIBERTY OF SPEECH.
See, generally, DEDIcArrorr; EMINENT Do MAIN ; RAILROAD.