TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 169 



Became a law May 26, 1917, with the apjiroval of the Governor. Passed, three- 

 fifths being present. 



Accepted Bv the City. 



The People of the Stale of j\'ew York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as folloxcs: 



Sectiox 1. Chapter four hundred and thirty-five of the laws of eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-five, entitled "An act to incorporate the New York Zoo- 

 logical Society and to provide for the establishment of a zoological garden in 

 the City of New York," as amended by chapter two hundred and forty of the 

 laws of nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby further amended by adding thereto 

 a new section to read as follows: 



7-a. The board of estimate and apportionment in 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 development of the work and objects of 

 the said New York Zoological Society, the whole or any part of that portion of 

 Bronx Park in the City of New York, lying to the south of Pelham avenue and 

 Pelham parkway, for the use of the said New York Zoological Society, the said 

 lands so to be appropriated to be described particularly in the order of the 

 board of estimate and apportionment hereby authorized. The said board of 

 estimate and apportionment may also, in its discretion at the time of setting 

 apart and appropriating said lands or any part thereof to the New York Zoo- 

 logical Society, and annually thereafter, in addition to any sum or sums which 

 it may have appropriated for the support and maintenance of the New York 

 Zoological Park, appropriate to the use of said society, such sum or sums in 

 its discretion for the care and maintenance of the additional lands that may be 

 allotted to the said society under the authority hereby conferred, as it may deem 

 best. 



2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



AND THE 



NEW YORK AQUARIUM 



CHAPTER 441, LAWS OF 1902. 



AN ACT to authorize a further appropriation to the New York Zoological 

 Society for the support of the New York Aquarium. 



As amended by Chapter 239 of the Laws of 1910. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, 

 do enact as folloxcs: 



Chapter four hundred and forty-one of the laws of nineteen hundred and two, 

 entitled "An Act to authorize a further appropriation to the New York Zoological 

 Society for the support of the New York Aquarium," is hereby amended to read 

 as follows: 



