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suant to its resolution of July 11, 1912, hereby approves of the 
form of final contract and the estimate of cost, in the sum of 
seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), for the services 
of McKim, Mead and White as Architects, for the preparation 
of complete plans and specifications and the supervision of the 
completion of the proposed Laboratory Building and Greenhouses 
in the Botanic Garden, Borough of Brooklyn, under the juris- 
diction of the Department of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn, the 
compensation to be at the rate of four per cent. (4 per cent.) of 
the total cost of the work, plus an additional and cumulative com- 
pensation for the reimbursement to the aforesaid architects for 
the expense of employing an engineering specialist who shall be 
approved by the Commissioner of Parks, two and one half per 
cent. (214 per cent.) of the total cost of the heating and ventilat- 
ing work, plumbing, electrical and refrigerating work, power 
plants and power apparatus, the cost to be divided and charged 
against the following funds: five thousand seven hundred and 
eighty-nine dollars and thirty-one cents ($5,789.31), against 
“C.D.P. 200L, Department of Parks, Boroughs of Brooklyn and 
Queens, Construction and Equipment of a Laboratory Building 
and Greenhouses in the Botanic Garden and Arboretum”; eight 
hundred and fifty-five dollars and thirty-five cents ($855.35) 
against “C.D.P. 200-M, Department of Parks, Borough of 
Brooklyn, Improvement of Botanic Garden”; eight hundred and 
fifty-five dollars and thirty-four cents ($855.34) against the ac- 
count “S. 566—Suspense Account, Contribution for Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden Improvement Fund.” 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
A ffirmative—The Mayor, the Comptroller, the President of 
the Board of Aldermen, the Presidents of the Boroughs of Man- 
hattan, Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens and the Acting Presi- 
dent of the Borough of Richmond—io0. (City Record 43: 8645- 
8646. .12 November, I9I15.) 
