al 
sciences. Said grounds shall be open and free to the public 
daily, including Sundays, subject to such restrictions only as to 
hours as the proper care, culture and preservation of the said 
garden may require; and its educational and scientific privileges 
shall be open to all alike, male and female, upon such necessary 
regulations, terms and conditions as shall be prescribed by the 
board of trustees of said institute and approved by said board 
of commissioners of the department of parks. 
§ 4. The board of estimate and apportionment and the board 
of aldermen of the city of New York on the making of an agree- 
ment * as provided in section two of this act, are hereby authorized 
on the recommendation of the said board of park commissioners, 
in their discretion, to appropriate annually a sum or sums of 
money, for the care and maintenance by said institute of said 
botanic garden and arboretum and of the planthouses and rooms 
for instruction erected thereon. 
§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately, 
Laws oF NEw York, 1911. Cuap. 178 
AN Act to amend 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,”’ generally, 
—— 
Accepted by the City. 
Became a law May 20, 1911, with the approval of the Governor 
(John A. Dix). Passed by a two-thirds vote. 
Lhe 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,”’ 
as amended by chapter six hundred and eighteen of the laws of 
nineteen hundred and six, is hereby amended so as to read 
as follows: 
* See pages 275, 284, and 289 infra. 
Grounds to be 
open free, 
when and to 
whom, 
Educational 
and scientific 
privileges. 
Annual ap- 
propriation for 
maintenance. 
L. 1897, ch. 509, 
as amended by 
L. 1906, ch. 618, 
nended. 
