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I recommend the adoption of the attached resolution granting the 
request. 
Respectfully, 
ILDEN ADAMSON, 
Director. 
The following resolution was offered: 
Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, pur- 
suant to its resolution of July 11, 1912, hereby approves the 
form of proposed preliminary and final contracts with McKim, 
Mead and White, for architectural services in connection with the 
construction of the Children’s Garden House in Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden, at an estimated cost of seventy dollars ($70) for the pre- 
liminary, and two hundred and eighty dollars ($280) for the final 
contract (or five per cent. 5%) of the total cost of construction, 
less the amount paid under the preliminary contract, to be charged 
as follows: One half to the corporate stock fund entitled “C.D. P. 
200M—Improvement of Botanic Gardens,” and one half to the 
fund entitled “ S566—Suspense Account, Contribution for Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden Improvement Fund.” 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
A firmative —The Comptroller, the President of the Board of 
Aldermen, and the Presidents of the Boroughs of Manhattan, 
Brooklyn, The Bronx, and Queens, and the Acting President of 
the Borough of Richmond—13. (City Record 44: 3488. 9 May 
1916.) 
APPENDIX 7 
BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT 
RESOLUTION ADOPTED Fripay, May 26, 1916, APPROVING THE 
IssUING OF AN OrpEN MarkKET ORDER IN THE SUM OF $648 
FOR EXTENSION OF IRRIGATION SYSTEM 
Department of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn—Authority to Issue 
Open Market Order (Cal. No. 70) 
The Secretary presented a communication dated May 4, 1916, 
from the Commissioner of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn, request- 
ing authority to issue open market order in the sum of $648 for 
the purpose of furnishing labor and materials for installing an ir- 
