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PARKS 



and election shall be as above provided; and members 

 may from time to time be added to the scientific direc- 

 tors by a majority vote of the scientific directors, 

 approved by a majority vote of the whole board of 

 managers. The board of managers shall elect from 

 their number a president, secretary and treasurer, none 

 of whom or of the board of managers, save the secre- 

 tary and treasurer, shall receive any compensation for 

 his services. Nine corporators shall constitute a quorum 

 at any meeting of the incorporators, but a less number 

 may adjourn. 



Section 5. Whenever the said corporation shall have 

 raised, or secured by subscription, a sum sufficient in 

 the judgment of the board of commissioners of the 

 department of public parks in the City of New York, 

 for successfully establishing and prosecuting the ob- 

 jects aforesaid, not less, however, than two hundred 

 and fifty thousand dollars within seven years from the 

 passage of this act, the said board of commissioners is 

 hereby authorized and directed to set apart and appro- 

 priate upon such conditions as to the said board may 

 seem expedient, a portion of the Bronx Park, or of such 

 other of the public parks in the City of New York 

 north of the Harlem River in charge of the said depart- 

 ment of parks as may be mutually agreed upon between 

 the said board of commissioners and the board of man- 

 agers of said corporation in lieu of Bronx Park, not 

 exceeding two hundred and fifty acres, for establishing 

 and maintaining therein by the said corporation a bo- 

 tanical garden and museum, including an herbarium 

 and arboretum, and for the general purposes stated in 

 the first section of this act. And the said board of 

 commissioners is thereupon hereby authorized and 

 directed to construct and equip within the said grounds 

 so allotted, according to plans approved by them, and 

 by said board of managers, a suitable fireproof building 

 for such botanical museum and herbarium, with lecture 

 rooms and laboratories for instruction, together with 

 other suitable buildings for the care and culture of 

 tender or other plants, indigenous or exotic, at an 

 aggregate cost not exceeding the bonds hereinafter 

 authorized to be issued by the City of New York; the 

 use of said buildings upon completion to be transferred 

 to said corporation for the purposes stated in this act. 

 And for the purpose of providing means therefor, it 

 shall be the duty of the comptroller of the City of New 



PROVISIONS OF THE CHARTER OF THE 



Section 1613. It shall be the duty of the commis- 

 sioner for the Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond 

 to maintain the meteorological and astronomical observ- 

 atory, the Museum of Natural History, the Metropoli- 

 tan Museum of Art in Central Park, the aquarium in 

 Battery Place, and such other buildings as now are or 

 may thereafter be erected in such parks or in any other 

 park, square or public place under his jurisdiction by 

 authority of the board of aldermen. It shall be the 



York, upon being thereto requested by said commis- 

 sioners, and upon being authorized thereto by the board 

 of estimate and apportionment, to issue and sell at not 

 less than their par value bonds or stock of the mayor, 

 aldermen and commonalty of the City of New York, in 

 the manner now provided by law, payable from taxa- 

 tion, aggregating the sum of five hundred thousand 

 dollars, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three 

 and one-half per centum per annum, and to be re- 

 deemed within a period of time not longer than thirty 

 years from the date of their issue. 



Section $-a. The board of estimate and apportion- 

 ment of 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 develop- 

 ment of the work and objects of the said New York 

 Botanical Garden, the whole or any part of that por- 

 tion of Bronx Park in the City of New York situated 

 between the southern boundary of the land in Bronx 

 Park heretofore appropriated for the use of the said 

 New York Botanical Garden by the board of commis- 

 sioners of the department of public parks, and the 

 northern side of Pelham Avenue; the land so to be 

 appropriated to be described more particularly in the 

 board of estimate and apportionment hereby author- 

 ized. Chapter 473, Laws of 1914. 



Section 6. The grounds set apart, as above provided, 

 shall be used for no other purposes than authorized by 

 this act, and no intoxicating liquors shall be sold or 

 allowed thereon. For police purposes and for the main- 

 tenance of proper roads and walks, the said ground 

 shall remain subject at all times to the control of the 

 said board of commissioners of the department of 

 parks; but otherwise, after the suitable laying out of 

 the same and the construction of proper roads and 

 walks therein by the department of parks, the said 

 grounds and buildings shall be under the management 

 and control of the said corporation. The said grounds 

 shall be open and free to the public daily, including 

 Sundays, subject to such restrictions only as to hours 

 as the proper care, culture and preservation of the said 

 garden may require; and its educational and scientific 

 privileges shall be open to all alike, male and female, 

 upon such necessary regulations, terms and conditions 

 as shall be prescribed by the managers of those depart- 

 ments. 



CITY OF NEW YORK FOR MAINTENANCE 



duty of the commissioner for the Boroughs of Brooklyn 

 and Queens to maintain the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, and such other buildings as now are or 

 may hereafter be erected in any park, square or public 

 place under his jurisdiction by authority of the board 

 of aldermen. It shall be the duty of the commissioner 

 for the Borough of the Bronx to maintain the New 

 York Botanical Garden and the buildings appurtenant 

 thereto, and such other institutions or buildings as may 



