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APPENDIX 11 
BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT | 
RESOLUTION PASSED DECEMBER 12, 1902, IN THE MATTER OF 
ACQUIRING FOR THE City oF New Yorxk TITLE TO THE 
LAND COMPRISING THE SouTH ADDITION TO THE 
BrRooOKLYN Botanic GARDEN.* 
(From Minutes of Meeting of December 12, 1902.) 
Whereas, on July 22, 1902, the Board of Aldermen of the City 
of New York, by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected 
voting in favor thereof, passed the following resolutions : 
Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of New 
York as follows :— 
“That, in pursuance of the provisions of section 442 of the 
Greater New York Charter, the following resolution of the Board 
of Estimate and Apportionment, adopted by that Board on the 
20 day of June, 1902, be and the same hereby is approved, viz: 
“Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of 
the City of New York, in pursuance of the provisions of section 
442 of the Greater New York Charter, deeming it for the public 
interest to alter the map or plan of the City of New York by locat- 
ing and laying out an addition to Prospect Park, and closing and 
discontinuing certain streets for the construction of an approach 
to the Willink entrance to Prospect Park, in the Twenty-ninth 
Ward, Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, does hereby 
favor and approve of the same so as to locate and lay out the 
said approach as follows: 
“1, Locating and laying out an addition to Prospect Park. 
“ Beginning at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Mal- 
bone Street, as the same are laid down on the map of the City: 
“1, Thence northerly along the eastern line of Flatbush Avenue 
for 477.28 feet, more or less, to the southern line of East Side 
Lands; 
*TInformation as to the acquisition of title by the City of other land 
comprised in the garden was given in the Garden ReEcorp 2: 98-100. 
July, 1913. 
