BOTANICAL GARDENS 



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be established or erected in any park, square or public 

 place in his jurisdiction by authority of the board of 

 aldermen. It shall be the duty of the several commis- 

 sioners to provide the necessary instruments, furniture 

 and equipments for the several buildings and institu- 

 tions within their respective jurisdictions, and, with 

 the authority of the board of aldermen, to develop and 

 improve the same, and to erect additional buildings; 

 but the maintenance of all such buildings and institu- 

 tions shall be subject to the provisions of the acts incor- 

 porating said institutions, or either of them, and the 

 acts amendatory thereof, and to the powers of said 

 corporations thereunder, and of the boards by such 

 acts created or provided for; and shall also be subject 

 to and in conformity with such contracts and agree- 

 ments as have heretofore been made with such institu- 

 tions respectively, and are in force and effect when this 

 act takes effect, or as may be hereafter made by the 

 authority of the board of aldermen, and no moneys 

 shall be expended for such purposes unless an appropri- 

 ation therefor has been made by the board of estimate 

 and apportionment and the board of aldermen. Out of 

 the moneys annually appropriated for the maintenance 

 of parks each commissioner may apply such sum as 

 shall be fixed by the board of estimate and apportion- 

 ment for the keeping, preservation and exhibition of 



the collections placed or contained in buildings or insti- 

 tutions now situated or hereafter erected in the parks, 

 squares or public places under the jurisdiction of such 

 commissioner. 



Section 625. The commissioner for the Borough of 

 the Bronx is hereby authorized and directed to carry 

 out the existing contract made by and between the 

 department of parks of the corporation heretofore 

 known as the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the 

 City of New York and the board of managers of the 

 corporation known as the New York Botanical Garden 

 pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 285 of the laws 

 of 1891, entitled "An act to provide for the establish- 

 ment of a botanic garden and museum and arboretum 

 in Bronx Park in the City of New York and to incor- 

 porate the New York Botanical Garden for carrying on 

 the same," as amended by Chapter 103 of the laws of 

 1894, which contract provides for the allotting and set- 

 ting apart for the uses of said garden of two hundred 

 and fifty acres of land or less in the northern part of 

 Bronx Park as shown upon a certain map thereof num- 

 bered 568, and signed by Messrs. Vaux and Parsons, 

 and filed with the former department of public parks 

 of the corporation known as the mayor, aldermen and 

 commonalty of the City of New York. 



