Site for botanic 
garden and 
arboretum. 
Objects of 
the Garden. 
Agreemen 
with Brooklyn 
Institute of 
Arts and 
Sciences; con- 
ditions. 
212 
$1. The park commissioner of the city of New York, having 
jurisdiction of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens * is hereby 
authorized and required to set apart and appropriate all 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,’ 
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, 
homed 
recreation and instruction of the people. 
§ 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 
yy 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,® or for 
other purposes in connection with said botanic garden and? 
arboretum, the board of estimate and apportionment of the city 
of New York on the recommendation of the board of commis- 
sioners of public parks of the said city of New York is hereby 
authorized in its discretion to enter into an agreement * on behalf 
3 Section to here formerly read: ‘The park commissioner of the city of 
Brooklyn.” The park departments of the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens 
are now (1932) under separate commissioners. 
“ond as have been set apart and designated by the mayor and 
‘The words 
park commissioner of the city of Brooklyn as a site for the Brooklyn public 
omitted 
library,’ : 
6 “and the said lands so set apart and appropriated shall be used 
tt 
> The words 
for no other purposes than those authorized by this act,’’ omitted. 
6 The words ‘‘to be set out in,’ omitted. 
(7 ee |) 
7 Formerly ‘‘or. 
8 See pages 275, 284, and 289 infra. 
