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Financial Matters 
Municipal Appropriation for Maintenance—The City appro- 
priation for maintenance was $37,124.50, a decrease of $511.67 
from the appropriation for 1914, notwithstanding the fact that 
the cost of maintenance during 1914 was $4,181.18 in excess of 
the City appropriation for that year. The amount required for 
_ maintenance in 1915 was $40,174.76, the excess of expenditure 
over City appropriation ($3,049.76) being contributed, as in 1914, 
from private funds. Of this excess, $2,245.35 was for day 
laborers on the grounds, and $447.22 for part time of an assistant 
secretary of the Garden. 
Corporate Stock Balances—Unincumbered balances remaining 
on previous appropriations of corporate stock (exclusive of build- 
ing appropriation), and totaling $6,054.65, were applied to the 
grading, drainage, and construction of new walks on our south 
addition and elsewhere. As in the case of maintenance, City ap- 
propriations were inadequate to meet the needs of the Garden, 
and private funds were contributed to the amount of $3,489.56, 
including two thirds of the commission of the landscape archi- 
tects in connection with the new walks. 
New Issue of Corporate Stock—The circumstances leading to 
the authorization of a new issue of corporate stock of the City 
of New York, to an amount not to exceed $100,000, are recorded 
earlier in this report (pp. 26-29), and a copy of the resolution of 
the Board of Estimate and Apportionment is appended hereto as 
Appendix 6. 
Private Funds.—lIn addition to the contribution of $100,000 
previously noted (p. 28), and not including the Japanese Garden, 
the total amount expended for Garden purposes from private 
funds during the year was $15,309.06, exceeding by $3,792.21 the 
amount for 1914, and being the largest annual total of such funds 
since the establishment of the Garden. In addition to $2,692.57, 
required to meet the deficit in salaries and wages, $2,508.93 was 
expended for the erection of an iron fence to enclose the newly 
acquired south addition, and in the construction of entrance turn- 
stiles and exit gates at four of our entrances, all of which items 
should properly be met by the City, and were absolutely necessary 
in order properly to protect City property. 
