Lands to be 
set apart. 
Objects of 
the Garden 
Laying out of 
the Garden. 
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LAWS OF NEW YORK STATE CONCERNING 
THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
Laws of NEw York, 1897. CHAP. 5009. 
AN ACT to provide for the establishment of a botanic 
garden and arboretum on park lands in the city of 
Brooklyn, and for the care of the same. 
Became a law May 18, 1&97, with the approval of the 
Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
Accepted by the city. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in 
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 
Section 1. The park commissioner of the city of Brook- 
lyn is hereby authorized and required to set apart and 
appropriate all of that portion of Prospect park bounded 
northerly by the Eastern parkway, easterly by Washington 
avenue, southerly by the line formerly dividing the city 
of Brooklyn from the late town of Flatbush, and westerly 
by Flatbush avenue, excepting only such lands as have 
been reserved for the Prospect hill reservoir, as have 
been leased to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
and as have been set apart and designated by the mayor 
and park commissioner of the city of Brooklyn as a site 
for the Brooklyn Public library, for the establishing and 
maintaining thereon of a botanic garden and arboretum 
for the collection and culture of plants, flowers, shrubs and 
’ trees, the advancement of botanical science and knowledge, 
and the prosecution of original researches therein and in 
kindred subjects; for affording instruction in the same, and 
for the prosecution and exhibition of ornamental and deco- 
rative horticulture and gardening, and for the entertain- 
ment, recreation and instruction of the people, and the said 
lands so set apart and appropriated shall be used for no 
other purposes than those authorized by this act. 
§ 2. ‘The said park commissioner or his successor or 
successors is hereby authorized and directed to cause said 
lands, bounded and described in section one of this act, to 
