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The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows: 
SECTION 1. 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,” 
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 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, 
and as have been set apart and designated by the mayor and 
park commissioner of the city of Brooklyn as a site for the 
Brooklyn public library, 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 botanical science and knowledge, and the prosecution of 
original researches therein and in kindred subjects; for affording 
instruction in the same, and for the prosecution and exhibition 
of ornamental and decorative horticulture 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. 
§ 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, to be set 
out in said botanic garden or arboretum, the board of estimate 
and apportionment of the city of New York, on the recomme nda- 
tion of the board of commissioners of public parks of said city 
of New York is hereby authorized in its discretion to enter into 
L. 1897, 
ch, 509, 
amended. 
Site for botanic 
garden and 
arboretum. 
Objects of 
the Garden. 
Sciences; con- 
ditions. 
