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trom 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 commis- 
sioner of the city of Brooklyn as a site for the Brooklyn 
Pate oe public library ; for the establishing and maintaining: there- 
the Garden. on of a botanic garden and arboretum for the collection and 
culture of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, the advance- 
ment of botanical science and knowledge, and the prosecu- 
tion of original researches therein and in kindred subjects ; 
for affording instruction in the same, and for the prosecu- 
tion and exhibition of ornamental and decorative horticul- 
ture and gardening, and for the entertainment, 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. 
with Beckin = § 2. Whenever the Brooklyn institute of arts and 
Institute of sciences, incorporated by chapter one hundred and seventy- 
Sciences; £m two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, shall have 
raised or secured by private subscription the sum of fifty 
thousand dollars within one year from the passage of this 
act, the principal of which or the income thereof to be set 
apart and used by the said institute for the purchase of 
plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, to be set out in said 
botanic garden or arboretum, the board of estimate and ap- 
portionment of the city of New York, on the recommenda- 
tion of the board of commissioners of public parks of said 
city of New York is hereby authorized in its discretion to 
enter into an agreement} on behalf of said city with the 
said Brooklyn institute of arts and science* for the 
establishing and maintaining by said institute of a botanic 
garden and arboretum upon such terms and conditions as 
may be agreed to, on any or all the lands mentioned in sec- 
Tiana tion one of this act, excepting thereout the lands desig- 
desienated- nated as a site for a public library by chapter five hundred 
ce Bot. cae ieecord 1%: 7-10, Ja. 1012; 
*So in original, 
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