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Agreement to Modify or Annul 
And it is further understood and agreed by and between the 
parties hereto that this agreement may be wholly cancelled or 
annulled, or from time to time be modified as may be mutually 
agreed in writing between said parties, or their successor or 
successors, anything herein contained to the contrary in anywise 
notwithstanding. 
In witness whereof the party of the first part has caused this 
agreement to be executed by its Mayor, pursuant to a resolution 
of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment adopted at a meet- 
ing held on the 12th day of June in the vear of our Lord nineteen 
hundred and fourteen, and the said party of the second part has 
caused the same to be executed by its President and Treasurer, 
and its official seal affixed thereto, pursuant to a resolution of 
the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences adopted at a meeting held on the 12th day of June, in 
the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fourteen. 
Ciry or NEw York. 
(Signed) GrorRGE MCANENY, 
Acting Mayor. 
Tur BRooKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
(Signed) A. AuGustus HEALEY, 
President. 
(Signed) DaninL V. B. HEGEMAN, 
Treasurer. 
Approved as to form 
(Signed) C. V. OLENDORF, 
Acting Corporation Counsel. 
ACQUISITION AND COST OF THE LAND COMPRIS— 
ING THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
The City of New York Record of Real Estate, as published in 
the City Record for May 6, 1913, gives on page 4159 a partial 
list of the property now comprised in the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden. The boundaries are given as Eastern Parkway, Flat- 
bush and Washington Avenues, and Malbone Street (now Empire 
Boulevard), and the area as 39.9 acres. This is the area of the 
