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The following resolution was offered: 
Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, 
pursuant to its resolution of July 11, 1912, hereby approves the 
form of contract, plans, specifications and estimate of cost in the 
sum of ten thousand dollars ($to,ooo) for excavating, filling, 
grading and top-soiling in the northwest corner, and at the south- 
erly end of the esplanade, in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 
Borough of Brooklyn, together with all other work incidental 
thereto, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, 
Borough of Brooklyn, the cost to be paid from a Corporate Stock 
Fund entitled “ C. D, P.-200J, Department of Parks, Boroughs of 
Brooklyn and Queens. Grading and Improvement of Botanic 
Garden and Arboretum,” and further provided 
If no bids are received for such work within such estimated 
cost the amount of stich estimated cost upon the bids so received 
may be reconsidered in its discretion by the Board of Estimate 
and Apportionment provided that any of said bids is within the 
amount authorized or available for such work. 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
A ffirmative-—The Mayor, the Comptroller, the President of 
the Board of Aldermen and the Presidents of the Boroughs of 
Manhattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx, the Acting President of the 
Borough of Queens, and the President of the Borough of Rich- 
mond—16. (City Record 42: 4053. 6 May I914.) 
APPENDIX 5 
The abstract of proceedings of the Park Board, for the week 
ending April 4, 1914 (City Record 42: 3228-3229. 9 Ap 1914) 
contains the following record of action taken on April 2, con- 
cerning the Brooklyn Botanic Garden: 
“The agreement executed December 28th, 1909, between the City of 
New York by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment and the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, was modified so as to take in an additional 
strip of land; and said modification was ay recommended to the 
Board of eta and Apportionment for adoption 
