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of trustees of said institute and approved by said board of 
commissioners of the department of parks. 
§ 5. 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 paragraph 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. 
2.'° This act shall take effect immediately. 
AGREEMENT OF DECEMBER 28, 1909, BETWEEN THE 
CITY OF NEW YORK AND THE BROOKLYN 
INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
CONCERNING THE BROOKLYN 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
THis AGREEMENT made and concluded on the 28th day of 
December, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, between THE 
City or NEw York, acting by its Board of Estimate and Appor- 
tionment, party of the first part, and the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, party of the second part, WITNESSETH: 
Authorizing Legislation 
WHEREAS, by an act of Legislature of the State of New York, known 
as Chapter 618 of the Laws of 1906, iene “An Act to amend Chapter 
509 of the Laws of 1897,” entitled “ Act to provide for the establish- 
ment of a botanic garden and cee on ee? lands in the City of Brooklyn, 
and for the care of the same,” the party of the first part, acting by its Board of 
Estimate and Apportionment, is expressly authorized to enter into a contract, 
on the recommendation of the Board of Commissioners of Public Parks of said 
City of New York, with the said Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
party of the second part, for the establishing and maintaining by said Institute 
of a botanic garden and arboretum on any or all of certain lands described and 
set forth in said act, anc 
Private Endowment 
WHEREAS, the party of the second part has raised or secured by private 
subscription, the sum of Fifty thousand dollars within one year from the 
1 Formerly § 4. 
16 So in the original. 
Annual ap- 
Bee ae for 
aintenance 
