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The proposed cases are each 87 inches by 56 inches, are double faced 
with fourteen shelves 
Three informal bids have been received for furnishing these cases. 
The proposed order is for the amount of the lowest bid, which was several 
hundred dollars lower than the second bid, but which must be accepted 
within a limited period. 
There are ample pan in pa accounts to which the proposed order is 
to be charged to meet the c 
The proposed purchase i is a proper one and the cost is properly charge- 
able ae the funds stat 
I recommend the ees of the attached resolution granting the 
eee 
Respectfully, 
TitpeN ADAMSON, 
Director. 
The following resolution was offered: 
Resolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, pur- 
suant to its resolution of July 11, 1912, and subject to the pro- 
visions of section 419 of the Greater New York Charter, hereby 
approves the expenditure of the sum of nine hundred and eighty 
dollars ($980) for furnishing and delivering two (2) metal her- 
barium cases for use in the laboratory building at the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden; the 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. 20oM—Improvement of Botanic Garden,” and one 
half to the fund entitled “S-566—Suspense Account, Contribu- 
tion 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, and the Presidents of the Boroughs of Man- 
hattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, the Acting President of the 
Borough of Queens, and the President of the Borough of Rich- 
mond—16. (City Record 44: 8940. 19 Dec., 1916.) 
