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avenue and southerly and westerly by Flatbush avenue,” as an 
addition to the land immediately adjacent and which is now main- 
tained as a botanic garden and arboretum under the original 
agreement between the said City and the said Institute dated 
December 28, 1909, and 
Recommendation for Addition of New Land. Boundaries thereof 
WHEREAS, The said Board of Commissioners of Public Parks 
of the City of New York, on the 2d day of April, in the year 1914, 
passed the following resolution: 
‘ Resolved, That, pursuant to chapter 178 of the Laws of Oise 
and in consideration of the existing agreement between The City 
of New York and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for 
the establishment and maintenance of a botanic garden and arbo- 
retum on park lands in the Borough of Brooklyn, the Board of 
Commissioners of Public Parks of The City of New York hereby 
recommends to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the 
said City that the park lands bounded as follows: Beginning on 
the easterly side of Flatbush avenue at a point where the line 
formerly dividing the old City of Brooklyn from the late town 
of Flatbush intersects the said easterly side of Flatbush avenue 
and running in a northeasterly direction along the line formerly 
dividing the old City of Brooklyn from the late Town of Flatbush 
746 feet 4 inches, more or less, to the westerly side of Washington 
avenue; thence in a southerly direction along the westerly side 
of Washington avenue 569 feet 1134 inches, more or less, to the 
northwesterly side of the Brighton Beach railway lands; thence in 
a southwesterly direction along the northwesterly side of the 
Brighton Beach railway lands 545 feet 334 inches, more or less, 
to the northerly line of Malbone street; thence westerly along the 
northerly side of Malbone street for a distance of 110 feet, more or 
less, to the easterly side of Flatbush avenue; thence in a north- 
westerly direction along the easterly side of Flatbush avenue 486 
feet 1 inch, more or less, to the point of beginning, be added 
to the existing botanic garden and arboretum established under 
chapter 618 of the Laws of 1906, as amended by chapter 178 of 
the Laws of 1911, and maintained under an agreement between 
the said City of New York and the said Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, under the date of December 28, 1909, as 
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