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The following resolution was offered: 
Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, 
pursuant to its resolution of July II, 1912, hereby approves the 
form of contract and specifications as amended, the plans and 
estimates of cost for the completion of the laboratory building 
and greenhouses for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Borough of 
Brooklyn, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, 
Borough of Brooklyn, as follows: 
General construction, estimated cost, one hundred and thirty- 
six thousand dollars ($136,000). 
Heating and ventilating work, estimated cost, twenty thou- 
sand dollars ($20,000). 
Plumbing work, estimated cost, fourteen thousand dollars 
$14,000), subject to the approval of the specifications 
for Heating and Ventilating Work and Plumbing Work 
é by the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. 
—the cost to be charged as follows: 
One half to the corporate stock fund entitled “C:D.P. 200-M, 
Department of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn, Improvement of 
Botanic Garden,” and one half to the fund entitled “S. 566, 
Suspense Account, Contribution for Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
Improvement Fund”; provided that in the event that the aggre- 
gate sum of the lowest bids received for the three items is 
equal to or less than the aggregate sum of the three items herein 
approved (although the amount of the lowest bid for one or more 
items may exceed the amount approved for said item or items), 
then the awards for the three items, provided all are awarded, 
may be made without further approval by the Board of Estimate 
and Apportionment, and provided further, that in the event that 
the aggregate sum of the lowest bids received for the three items 
exceeds the aggregate sum of the three items herein approved, 
no award for any item shall be made and the amount of such 
estimated cost upon the bids so received may be reconsidered in 
its discretion by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, or 
by any official designated by the Board, provided that any of the 
bids is within the amount authorized and available for said work. 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
Affirmative—The Mayor, the Comptroller, the Acting Presi- 
