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be laid out as a botanic garden and arboretum, and as 
a proper approach to the Museum building of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, by a competent landscape 
gardener, and on plans approved by the said park com- 
missioner or his successor or successors, and said proper 
approach to the Museum building shall be subject to the 
approval of the board of trustees of said institute. And 
means for the proper construction, planting, equipment, 
and maintenance of said garden and arboretum shall be pro- 
vided in the same manner as for the support and mainten- 
ance of other park lands in the city of Brooklyn or its 
successor. 
§ 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act 
are hereby repealed. 
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately. 
Laws oF NEw York, 1906. CHAPTER 618. 
AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and nine of the 
laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled 
“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 24, 1906, 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: 
Secrion 1. Chapter five hundred and nine of the laws of 
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled “An act to pro- 
vide for the establishment of a botanic garden and arboretum 
on park lands in the city of Brooklyn and for the care of 
the same,” is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 
§ 1. The park commissioner of the city of Brooklyn 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 
Approach to 
Museum 
building. 
Means, how 
provided. 
Repeal. 
Ie 1807; 
ch. 509, 
amended. 
Site for botanic 
garden and 
arboretum. 
