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said work to be done under the jurisdiction of the Commissioner 
of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn, and to be charged as follows: 
One half to the corporate stock fund entitled “C. D. P. 20ooM— 
Improvement of Botanic Gardens,” and one half to the fund en- 
titled ‘“S566—Suspense Account, Contribution for Brooklyn Bo- 
tanic Garden Improvement Fund.” 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
Affirmative —The Mayor, the Deputy and Acting Comptroller, 
the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Acting President of 
the Borough of Manhattan and the Presidents of the Boroughs 
of Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond—16. (City 
Record 44: 4288-4289. 6 June, 1916.) 
APPENDIX 8 
BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT 
RESOLUTION ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 22, 1916, AUTHORIZING Pay- 
MENT OF CLAIM OF OLMSTED Bros. 
(On September 15, 1916 (Cal. No. 74), the certificate of the 
Deputy and Acting Comptroller was presented and the 
matter laid over until this meeting.) 
The secretary presented the following certificate of the Deputy 
and Acting Comptroller: 
September 1, 1916. 
To THE HoNnorRABLE, THE BoarD oF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT: 
Gentlemen: Under and pursuant to the provisions of section 246 of the 
Greater New York Charter I hereby certify that an application has been 
presented by Olmsted Brothers for the payment of $458.30, alleged to be 
e them for professional services as landscape architects, and disburse- 
ments made, in connection with a contract between the Department of 
Parks, Borough of Brooklyn, and Louis J. Sieling, dated April 29, 1915; 
that said services were rendered and disbursements were made, during the 
year I915, in good faith at the instance of the Department of Parks, Bor- 
ough of Brooklyn; that no action has been instituted on the claim upon 
which this application is based; that a service contract for the work in 
question was submitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment’ for 
their approval, but the same was never approved by the Board, and in 
accordance with a communication from the corporation counsel under date 
of August 2, 1916, relative to this application, the claim for the services 
