GRANT OF SOUTH BRONX PARK 
LO” DEE 
Hew Dork Zoological Society. 
At a special meeting of the Commissioners of the Sinking 
Fund, City of New York, held on March 24, 1897, a resolu- 
tion was passed allotting South Bronx Park for the use 
of the New York Zoological Society upon conditions entirely 
satisfactory to the Society. 
The full text of the resolution is as follows : 
WHEREAS, by chapter 435 of the Laws of 1895, entitled ‘‘An act to in- 
corporate the New York Zoological Society and to provide for the establish- 
ment of a Zoological Garden in the City of New York,’’ it is provided that 
the Commissioners of the Sinking fund of the City of New York are 
authorized in their discretion to allot, set apart and appropriate, for the use 
of said corporation, any of the lands belonging to said city north of 155th 
Street, but not in Central Park, 
RESOLVED, that the said Commissioners of the Sinking Fund do hereby 
allot, set apart and appropriate for the use of said corporation, a tract of 
land in the southern portion of Bronx Park, embracing an area of about 261 
acres, and consisting of so much of said park as lies south of Pelham 
Avenue, upon the following terms and conditions, to wit: 
First. That said grounds thus set apart and appropriated, shall be used 
for no other purpose whatsoever except for the purposes of said Zoological 
Garden as the same are specified in the act aforesaid, and that said appro- 
priation of said lands hereby made shall be revoked if, after the expiration 
of three years from the date of the commencement of the work by the Park 
Department for the necessary improvement of the grounds as referred to 
and described in the sixth paragraph of this Resolution, a Zoological 
Garden is not established upon said tract of lard. 
Second, That the original equipment of buildings and animals for said 
Zoological Garden shall be paid for from funds contributed by the New 
York Zoological Society, and that said Society shall, before it enters into 
occupation of the allotted land and within one year from the date of this 
Resolution, raise one hundred thousand dollars by subscription, and within 
three years from the date of the commencement of the work by the Park 
Department for the necessary improvement of the grounds as referred to and 
described in the sixth paragraph of this Resolution, the further sum of at 
least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. If the said Society shall fail 
or neglect to raise said funds within the periods respectively fixed therefor, 
