Lands excepted 
from site 
ated. 
Plans. 
Construction of 
buildings 
thorized. 
Issue of 
Cor rporate eel 
of city for 
permanent 
improvements 
authorized. 
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and Sciences 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 section one of this act, excepting 
thereout the lands designated as a site for a public library, 
by chapter five hundred and fifty-three of the laws of nine- 
teen hundred and five, and also excepting therefrom such 
lands as have been designated and set apart by the board 
of park commissioners and the board of estimate and ap- 
portionment of the said city of New York as a site for an 
astronomical observatory in pursuance of chapter six 
hundred and thirty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred 
and six:® and on any of the lands lying between Wash- 
ington avenue and Flatbush avenue acquired or that may 
hereafter be acquired? by the city of New York and bounded 
northerly by the line formerly dividing the old city of 
Brooklyn from the late town of Flatbush, easterly by Wash- 
ington avenue and southerly and westerly by Flatbush 
avenue. ‘The plans for the said botanic garden and arbore- 
tum shall be subject to the approval of the said board of 
park commissioners. And said board of commissioners is 
thereupon hereby authorized to construct and equip, upon 
the lands designated in said agreement and according to 
plans to be approved by them and by the trustees of said 
institute, sttitable planthouses for the care and culture ot 
tender or other plants, indigenous or exotic, and rooms 
for instruction in botany, the use of same upon completion 
to be transferred to said Brooklyn Institute of Arts an 
Sciences for the purposes stated in this act, and for the 
purpose of providing means therefor, and of providing 
means for grading, soil additions, and other permanent im- 
yrovements in said garden and arboretum® it shall be the 
duty of the comptroller of the city of New York, upon 
being thereto requested by the said commissioners, and 
— 
6. Words “and also excepting therefrom * * * and _ six,” 
new. 
7. Words “or that may hereafter es pasa 
8. Words “and of providing mea ne arboretum,” 
new. 
