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the Board of Park Commissioners was “authorized to construct 
and equip * * * suitable plant houses * * * and rooms 
for instruction in botany.” For the purpose of providing means 
therefor, the Comptroller of the City of New York was di- 
rected, upon the request and authorization of the Board of 
Park Commissioners and the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment and the Board of Aldermen respectively, “to issue and 
sell corporate stock of the City of New York * * * ag- 
gregating the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.” The 
City was also authorized to provide for the annual maintenance 
of the Garden. 
This bill was approved by the Park Department of the 
City, passed by the Legislature, approved by Mayor McClellan, 
and was signed by Governor Higgins on May 24, 1906, be- 
coming Chapter 618 of the Laws of 1906. In the spring of 
1907 a form of agreement between the City and the Institute 
was prepared in pursuance of the law, was approved by the 
Board of Park Commissioners of the City in December of that 
year, and sent by that Board to the Board of Estimate and 
Apportionment. On June 24, 1909, the Board of Estimate and 
\pportionment voted unanimously to establish the Garden, and 
on December 28, 1909, a contract was entered into between the 
City and the Institute upon the authority of the Board of Esti- 
mate and Apportionment of the City and the Board of ‘Trustees 
of the Institute. The full text of this agreement and contract 
was published in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Rrcorp, volume 
I, pages 7-16, January, 1912. 
A topographical survey of the Botanic Garden lands was 
made in the spring of 1910, by D. Barta & Co., and Olmsted 
Brothers, Landscape Architects of Brookline, Mass., prepared 
during the summer a general plan for the Garden. ‘The Board 
of Estimate and Apportionment and the Board of Aldermen 
appropriated, in June, 1910, $25,000 “for the construction of 
plant houses,” and also $25,000 “for the construction of rooms 
for instruction in botany.” On February 3, 1910, Prof. C. 
Stuart Gager was appointed director of the Garden, the ap- 
pointment to take effect on July 1; and on July 15, Messrs. 
