Lands excepted 
from site 
designated. 
South addition. 
Plans. 
Construction of 
buildings 
authorized. 
Issue of 
corporate stock 
of city autho 
ized. 
Intoxicating 
liquors not to 
be sold. 
Management 
and control. 
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an agreement on behalf of said city with the said Brooklyn 
‘nstitute of arts and science! for the establishing and main- 
taining 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 nineteen hundred and 
five, and on any of the lands lying between Washington avenue 
and Flatbush avenue 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 Washington 
avenue and southerly and westerly by Flatbush avenue. The 
plans for the said botanic garden and arboretum 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, suitable planthouses for the care and 
culture of tender or other plants, indigenous or exotic, and rooms 
for instruction in botany, the use of same upon completion to be 
transferred to the said Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences 
for the purposes stated in this act; and for the purpose of pro- 
viding means therefor it shall be the duty of the comptroller 
of the city of New York, upon being thereto requested by the 
said commissioners, and upon being authorized thereto by the 
board of estimate and apportionment and the board of aldermen 
of said city, to issue and sell corporate stock of the city of New 
Vork in the manner now provided by law aggregating the sum 
of one hundred thousand dollars. 
§ 3. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold or allowed on the 
grounds set apart as above provided. For police purposes and 
for the maintenance of proper roads and walks, the said grounds 
shall remain subject at all times to the control of said board of 
commissioners of the department of parks; but otherwise, after 
the completion of said planthouses and rooms, and the con- 
struction of proper roads and walks therein by the department 
of parks, the said grounds and buildings shall be under the 
management and control of said Brooklyn institute of arts and 
1 So in original. 
