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of said city with the said Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 
for the establishing and maintaining 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 bundred and fifty-three of the 
laws of nineteen hundred and five, and also excepting therefrom 
such lands as have been designated and set apart by the board 
of park commissioners and the board of estimate and apportion- 
ment of the said city of New York as a site for an astronomical 
observatory in pursuance of chapter six hundred and thirty-seven 
of the laws of nineteen hundred and six;® and on any of the 
lands lying between Washington avenue and Flatbush avenue 
acquired or that may hereafter be 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 com- 
missioners. 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 said Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences for the purposes stated in this act: 
and for the purpose of providing means therefor, and of providing # 
means for grading, soil additions, and other permanent improve- 
ments in said garden and arboretum ! 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 York in the manner now provided by law.” 
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and of providing means . . . and arboretum,” new. 
aggregating the sum ok one hundred thousand dollars, 
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