200 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



It is to be assumed that our board of trustees has in mind some 

 similar provision in whatever contract or agreement shall be made 

 between the Association and the city when the proper time arrives, 

 and also that the committee responsible will explain to subscribers 

 that the building when erected will, by reason of its location on 

 city land, be owned by the city and not by the Association. 



because of the very heavy obligations to which the City is committed for 

 other important purposes. 



" The members of this Board, however, are fully alive to the binding 

 nature of the agreement between the Museum and the City, namely, that 

 the City shall continue to add building space as the collections and exhibi- 

 tions increase, according to the contract of 1878, and trust that oppor- 

 tunity may soon come when building by the City may be renewed. 



" In view of this emergency the Board desires to make record that if 

 private funds are contributed for the erection of the building the accept- 

 ance of such donation shall not be regarded as a precedent to relieve the 

 City of its obligations to continue the extension of the building in the 

 future." 



