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this act may l)e held at any time upon a notice of five days, signed by any five 

 of tile incorporators named in the first section of tliis act, fixing a time and place 

 for such meeting, a copy whereof shall be mailed to each of said incorporators at 

 his usual post-oflRce address, and twelve of such incorporators sliall be a quorum 

 for the purpose of organization, adoption of by-laws, and election of officers. No 

 manager of said corporation shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any con- 

 tract concerning its property or affairs. 



Sec. 5. Said corporation may raise money l)y the issue of bonds, secured 

 by a mortgage on any or all of its property not acquired from said city or state. 



Sec. 6. Said corporation may take, purchase, and hold real and personal 

 estate necessary for the purpose of its incorporation, and shall possess the general 

 powers and be subject to the restrictions and liabilities prescribed in Article II 

 of Chapter 23 of the Consolidated Laws entilicd "General CorjJDration Law," 

 being chapter 38 of the Laws of 1909. 



Sec 7. The commissioners of the sinking fund of the said city arc authorized 

 in their discretion to allot, set apart, and ap])ropriate for the use of said corpora- 

 tion, any of the lands belonging to said city north of One Hundred and Fifty- 

 fifth street, but not in the Central Park, and such appropriation niaj- be revoked 

 if, after the expiration of five years from the passage of tiic act, a zoological 

 garden is not established thereon; said grounds thus set apart and appropriated 

 shall be used for no purpose whatsoever excejit those aforesaid. As soon as any 

 lands are set apart the Mayor of the said city of New York, and the President 

 of the Department of Parks of said city, shall become and be ex-oflcio members 

 of the board of managers of said corporation. If at any time tlie animals now 

 composing the menagerie at Central Park shall be removed therefrom by the 

 authorities having charge thereof, said authorities may make an arrangement 

 with the incorporators named in this act or the corporation formed by them for 

 leasing or sale of such animals to such incorporators or corporation, and said 

 incorporators or corjioration shall have a preference over any other person or 

 corporation in respec-t thereto upon the sanu" terms which said authorities could 

 make with any such other ])erson or corporation, or upon such other terms as to 

 such authorities may seem proper, but nothing liercin provided shall be construed 

 as giving the connnissioners of the Department of Public Parks authority to sell, 

 lease, transfer, or in any other wise dispose of said animals or otiicr property 

 connected with or belonging to said menagerie. 



Sec 8. Admission to the said gardens shall be free to the pul)lic for at least 

 four days, one of which shall be Sunday, in each week, subject to sucli rules and 

 regulations as shall be prescribed by said corjwration. 



Sec 9. This act shall take effect inunediately. 



NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



AMD THE 



NEW YORK AQUARIUM 

 CHAPTER 441. LAWS OF 1902. 



AN ACT to authorize a further appropriation to the New York Zoological 

 Society for the support of the New York Aquarium. 

 As amended by Chapter 339 of the Laws of 1910. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assemblij, 

 do enact as follows: 



Chapter four hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, 

 entitled "An act to authorize a further appropriation to the New York Zoological 

 Society for the support of the New York Aquarium," is hereby amended to read 

 as follows: 



