GRANT OF SOUTH BRONX PARK 



TO THE 



flew JI)ork 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 land. 



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, 



