TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 169 
Became a law May 26, 1917, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three- 
fifths being present. 
Accepted By THE City. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
do enact as follows: 
Secrion 1. Chapter four hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen 
hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An act to incorporate the New York Zoo- 
logical Society and to provide for the establishment of a zoological garden in 
the City of New York,” as amended by chapter two hundred and forty of the 
laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended by adding thereto 
a new section to read as follows: 
7-a. The board of estimate and apportionment in the City of New York 
may, in its discretion, set apart and appropriate upon such conditions as it may 
deem expedient for the extension and development of the work and objects of 
the said New York Zoological Society, the whole or any part of that portion of 
Bronx Park in the City of New York, lying to the south of Pelham avenue and 
Pelham parkway, for the use of the said New York Zoological Society, the said 
lands so to be appropriated to be described particularly in the order of the 
board of estimate and apportionment hereby authorized. The said board of 
estimate and apportionment may also, in its discretion at the time of setting 
apart and appropriating said lands or any part thereof to the New York Zoo- 
logical Society, and “annually thereafter, in addition to any sum or sums which 
it may have appropriated for the support and maintenance of the New York 
Zoological Park, appropriate to the use of said society, such sum or sums in 
its discretion for the care and maintenance of the additional lands that may be 
allotted to the said society under the authority hereby conferred, as it may deem 
best. 
2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 
AND 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 239 of the Laws of 1910. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 
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: 
