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Amendment of the act of 1897 
Wuereas, Said chapter 618 of the Laws of 1906 has been 
amended by chapter 178 of the Laws of 1911, entitled “ An Act to 
amend chapter 509 of the Laws of 1897, entitled ‘An Act to pro- 
vide for the establishment of a botanic garden and arboretum on 
park lands in the City of Brooklyn, and for the care of the same,’ ‘6 
generally; and 
First amendment of original agreement of 1909 
WuereEas, Said agreement, entered into on the 28th day of 
December, 1909, was amended on September 9, 1912, in pursuance 
of authority granted by said chapter 178 of the Laws of 1911; 
and 
Provisions of the act of Ig1I 
Wuereas, Chapter 178 of the Laws of rgri in section IT, au- 
thorizes the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The City 
of New York in its discretion on the recommendation of the Board 
of Commisioners of Public Parks of the said City, to enter into 
an agreement on behalf of said City with the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences for the establishing and maintaining by the 
said Institute of a botanic garden and arboretum, upon such 
terms and conditions as may be agreed to, on “any of the lands 
lying between Washington avenue and Flatbush avenue acquired 
or that may hereafter be acquired by the City of New York and 
bounded northerly by the land formerly dividing the old City of 
Brooklyn from the late Town of Flatbush, easterly by Washington 
avenue and southerly and westerly by Flatbush avenue,” as an 
addition to the land immediately adjacent and which is now main- 
tained as a botanic garden and arboretum under the original 
agreement between the said City and the said Institute datec 
December 28, 1909, and 
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Recommendation for addition of new land. Boundaries thereof 
Wuereas, The said Board of Commissioners of Public Parks 
of the City of New York, on the 2d day of April, in the year 1914, 
passed the following resolution: 
