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rendered and moneys disbursed is illegal and invalid as against the city 
of New York; but notwithstanding, in my judgment, it is equitable and 
proper for the city to pay the claim in the sum of $458.30, inasmuch as the 
city has received a benefit and derived an advantage which in money value 
is equal to said sum and that said sum of $458.30 is the amount which 
should be paid in full satisfaction of the claim from the appropriate fund 
available for the purpose. 
Respectfully, 
Dp D. FISHER, 
Deputy and Acting Comptroller. 
The following resolution was offered: 
Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, 
pursuant to the provisions of section 246 of the Greater New 
York Charter, being chapter 601 of the Laws of 1907, as amended, 
hereby determines that the City has received a benefit from, and is 
justly and pee obligated to pay Olmsed Brothers, without 
interest, the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and 
thirty cents Gira) for work, labor and services rendered, and 
for moneys disbursed, as landscape architects in connection with 
a contract between the Department of Parks, Borough of Brook- 
lyn, and one Louis J. Sieling, for the construction of walks in the 
southerly extension of Brooklyn Botanical Garden entered into 
on or about April 29, 1915; that the said sum shall be paid in full 
satisfaction of their claim for such services and disbursements ; 
that the interest of the city will be best subserved by the payment 
of said claim in that amount and such payment shall only be made 
upon the execution by the said claimants, of a full release in 
favor of the city, in such form as shall be approved by the cor- 
poration counsel, and the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized 
to pay said claim in the sum of four hundred and fifty-eight 
dollars and thirty cents ($458.30), out of the appropriate fund 
available for the purpose. 
Which was adopted by the following vote: 
Affirmative —The Mayor, the Deputy and Acting Comptroller, 
the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Presidents of the 
Boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx, the Acting 
President of the Borough of Queens and the President of the 
Borough of Richmond—16. (City Record 44: 7187. 4 October, 
1916.) 
