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Queens! is hereby authorized and required to set apart 
and appropriate all 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,? 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 bo- 
tanical science and knowledge, and the prosecution of origi- 
nal researches therein and in kindred subjects; for afford- 
ing instruction in the same, and for the prosecution and 
exhibition of ornamental and decorative horticulture “and 
gardening, and for the entertainment, recreation and in- 
struction of the people.® 
§ 2. Whenever the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences, incorporated by chapter one hundred and seventy- ¥ 
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, or for other purposes in 
connection with said botanic garden and® arboretum, the 
board of estimate and apportionment of the city of New 
York on the recommendation of the board of commissioners 
of public parks of the 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 
. Section ie here , formerly read: “The park commissioner of 
i city of Brooklyn.’ 
. Words Cand as have been set apart and designated by the 
le or and park co eae of the city of Brooklyn as a site for 
the pe public library,’ omitted. 
Words “and the said lands so set apart and appropriated 
shall be ees for no other purposes than those authorized by this 
£ words. am ae set out in,” omitted. 
. Former 
Objects of 
the Garden. 
Agreement 
with Hest 
Ins oe of 
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Shanes con- 
ditions. 
