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APPENDIX 1x 
AGREEMENT OF SEPTEMBER 9, 1912, BETWEEN Hee ate OF 
NEW ee AND THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE O S) 
AND SCIENCES, AMENDING Tee AGREEMENT or 
DECEMBER 2 28, 1909, TOUCHI Cr sme Ie KLY 
BOTANIC GARD siEN 
THIS AGREEMENT, made and concluded on the oth day of Sep- 
tember, in the year nineteen hundred and twelve, rae n The City of 
York, acting by its Board of Estimate and Apportionment, party 
of the first part, and the Brooklyn Institute fe Arts and Sciences, party 
of the second part, witnesseth: 
WHEREAS, The City of New York, acting by its Board of Estimate 
part, entered into an agreement on the 28th day of December, in the 
year 1909, for the establishment and maintenance of a Botanic Garden 
and Arboretum on park lands in the Borough of Brooklyn, City of New 
York, and for the care of the same, i Papakea with the terms and 
conditions as expressed in said agreement, and under eee granted 
to the said City of New York by eae 618 of the Laws of 1906; and 
WHEREAS, Said chapter 618 of the Laws of 1906 has been amended 
ay Ses 178 of the Laws of 1911, entitled “An Act to amend Chapter 
cae of 1897, entitled ‘An Act to provide for the establish- 
c Garden and Arboretum on Park Lands in the City of 
Brooklyn, and tel the care of the same,’” generally; and 
WHEREAS, The Commissioner of the Department of Water Supply, 
Gas and Electricity having certified to the Commissioners of the Sinking 
Fund, er date of August 5, 1911, that two parcels of Prospect Heights 
Reserv ep See hereinafter described are no longer needed for reservoir 
purposes ; 
WHEREAS, The Board of Park Commissioners of The City of 
New York, on December 14, I91I, recommended to the Commissioners 
of ihe Sinking end that the same two parcels of land hereinafter de- 
scribed be transferred to the custody of the Department of Parks for 
use as a Botanic Garden and Arboretum; an 
WHEREAS, The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund of The City 
of New York, on January 10, 1912, transferred the eed two parcels of 
of Brooklyn for use as a Botanic Garden and Ree through the 
passing of the following redolunOut 
RESOLVED, That, pursuant to the provisions of Section 205 of the 
Greater New York Charter, as amended, the Commissioners of the Sinking 
Fund hereby assign to the Department of Parks, Borough of Brooklyn, 
cee balecsiget was executed in triplicate, and one copy deposited 
with as aes f the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, one wit 
the Comptroller of the City of New York, and one with the Treasurer of 
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts otal Science ba 
