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Irom time to time appropriations from corporate stock, tax 
notes, or other sources are made for permanent improvements. 
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Annual appropriations are made in the tax budget for part o 
current expenses. During the twenty-five years since the work 
of the Garden was initiated, on July 1, 1910, the City has appro- 
priated a total of $298,434.29 for initial construction and per- 
manent improvements, such as buildings, grading, walks, fences, 
Its twenty-five annual tax budget appropriations for 
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et cetera. 
maintenance, including personal service and other codes, ma 
total of $1,741,230.64. Thus, the appropriations of the City for 
Permanent Improvements and for Annual Maintenance amount to 
a total of $2,039,664.93. 
WHAT THE GARDEN Is DOING For THE City 
3ut the City appropriations alone, including the assignment of 
the land, would never have made possible the work of the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden. Nor was it ever intended that they should, 
The initial Agreement, of December 28, 1909, between the City 
and the Board of Trustees provided for a cooperative partnership, 
in which the cost of the enterprise was to be shared by the City 
and the Board, and the Board was charged with the entire duty 
The members of the Board 

and responsibility of administration. 
contribute their time and services without compensation, and make 
and secure generous contributions of private funds to supplement 
those of the City. The total amount of private funds provided by 
the Board during the Garden’s first quarter century is as follows: 
$1,088,939,49 
233,245.96 
216,516.93 
79,354.19 
Permanent Endowment ..........0. 000.0 cece eee 
Permanent Improvements ...............2--0005 
Scientific and Educational Work ............... 
General Maintenance ........... 2.00. cece cece ee 

Total Private Funds Provided, 1910-1935 ..... $1,618,056.57 
In short, by its total contributions of $2,000,000 plus, the City 
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has secured contributions of private funds of more 
$1,600,000.00, or over three-quarters as much as the City ap- 
propriation, All that the Board of Trustees was required to pro- 
vide by the terms of its <lgreement with the City was $50,000.00. 

