ACT PROVIDING FOR GROUND IMPROVEMENTS 
[NoPHE ZOOLOGICAL, PARK. 
CHAPTER 432. 
Aw Act to provide for the improvement of that portion of Bronx Park 
in the City of New York allotted to and set apart for the New York 
Zoological Society. 
Accepted by the City. Became a law April 13, 1900, with the approval 
of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. 
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 
Assembly, do enact as follows: 
SEcTION I. The Department of Parks for the Borough of the Bronx 
in the city of New York, when the New York Zoological Society shall have 
raised or expended the sum of two hundred thousand dollars for the de- 
velopment of that portion of Bronx Park allotted to it by the city of New 
York by agreement dated March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and 
ninety-seven, and when the Board of Estimate and Apportionment in the 
exercise of its discretion shall have consented and concurred, is hereby 
authorized to make such improvements upon the portion of Bronx Park 
allotted to the said New York Zoological Society as shall be necessary to 
fully provide for and complete sewerage and surface drainage, additional 
service roads, water supply, asphalt or other surface for existing and other 
walks, stone steps, terraces and coping and balustrades, the resurfacing 
and extending of roads and paths, and additional roads and paths, bridges, 
guard rails, fences, gates, wire netting, and barbed-wire overhang to boun- 
dary fence, wire flood-gate at Pelham Avenue bridge, the improvement of 
the waterfall in the Bronx River, regulating, grading, filling and fertilizing 
grounds, and stocking and planting with trees, shrubs, and plants, and 
the necessary materials and other substances required in carrying out the 
same, entrances and shelter pavilions, carriage sheds, public restaurants, 
drinking fountains, boat houses, work shops, a green house for propagating 
and storage purposes, the construction and equipment of a building for 
carnivorous animals, and the construction and equipment of a building for 
primates, together with such other buildings, structures, and improvements 
as may be deemed necessary by the board of managers of the said New 
York Zoological Society, and be approved by said Commissioner of Parks 
for the Borough of the Bronx. 
Sec. 2. Prior to the expenditure of any amount hereunder, plans and 
specifications for the several improvements, buildings, structures, and other 
items of expenditure herein contemplated, shall be prepared by said New 
York Zoological Society, and approved by the Commissioner of Parks for 
the Borough of the Bronx, and all work herein specified shall be under 
the supervision of said Commissioner. The construction and equipment 
of the buildings hereinabove provided for, when undertaken, shall be 
prosecuted under the supervision of the architects chosen by the board of 
