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BOARD OF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT 
CITY OF NEW YORK 
Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of chapter 618 of the Laws of 
1906, as amended by chapter 178 of the Laws of 1911, the Board of Estimate 
and Apportionment hereby approves of the seended agreement Seas 
by the Park Board of The City of New York, between The City of New 
York, acting by the Board of Estimate and Apportion ment, and ae Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences, relative to the establishment and maintenance 
of a Botanic Garden and Arboretum on park lands in the Borough of Brooklyn, 
under the jurisdiction of said Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the Mayor 
be and is hereby authorized to execute said agreement on behalf of The C ity 
of New York. 
A true copy of resolution adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment, July 11, 1912 
JosepH HAAG, 
Secretary. 
AGREEMENT OF AUGUST 17, 1914, BETWEEN THE 
CITY OF NEW YORK AND THE BROOKLYN IN- 
STITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, AMENDING 
THE AGREEMENT OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1912, 
WHICH AMENDED THE AGREEMENT 
OF DECEMBER 28, 1909, TOUCHING 
THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC 
GARDEN * 
BoarpD oF ESTIMATE AND APPORTIONMENT, City or NEw York 
Tris AGREEMENT, made and concluded on the 17th day of 
August, in the year nineteen hundred and fourteen, between The 
City of New York, acting by its Board of Estimate and Appor- 
tionment, party of the first part, and the Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, acting by its Board of Trustees, part of the 
second part, witnesseth: 
* This amendment was executed in triplicate, and one copy deposited 
with the secretary of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, one with 
the Comptroller of the City of New York, and one with the treasurer of 
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 
the terms of this Agreement the area of about eight acres of land lying 
opposite the Willink Entrance to Prospect Park, and since known as the 
“South Addition,”’ was assigned to the Botanic Garden, This extended the 
Botanic Garden land southward to Malbone St. (now Empire Boulevard). 
The other terms of the Agreement remained essentially unaltered. 
