BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXI NOVEMBER, 1932 NO. 6 
LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND INFORMATION 
BEARING ON THE 
ESTABLISHMENT, ORGANIZATION, 
AND ACTIVITIES 
OF THE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
1897-1932 
LAWS OF NEW YORK STATE CONCERNING THE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
Laws oF New York, 1897. CHap. 509 
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, 1897, with the approval of the Governor 
(Frank S. Black). 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 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 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 
Lands to be 
set apart. 
