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taining of the Museum, collection and library of said Association, and to 

 prescribe the terms and conditions regulating the use of such land by said 

 Association.' 



" I therefore respectfully recommend that the Commissioners of the 

 Sinking Fund adopt a resolution assigning to the Staten Island Association 

 of Arts and Sciences, the plot of land in the First Ward of the Borough 

 of Richmond, City of New York, bounded and described as follows : . • • — 

 said premises to be used as a site for the erection of a Museum building 

 by the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, said premises with 

 buildings and other improvements thereon to revert to the City whenever 

 it shall cease to be so used. 



" Respectfully, 



" Albert E. Hadlock, 



" Deputy and Acting Comptroller. 



" Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of section 8, chapter 850 of 

 the Laws of 191 1, the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund hereby assign 

 to the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences the plot of land in 

 the First Ward, Borough of Richmond, City of New York, bounded as 

 follows : 



"Beginning at the corner formed by the intersection of the northerly side 

 of Wall Street with the easterly side of Stuyvesant Place ; running thence 

 easterly along the northerly side of Wall Street 108 feet; running thence 

 northerly and parallel with the easterly side of Stuyvesant Place 115 feet; 

 running thence westerly and parallel with the northerly side of Wall Street 

 108 feet to the easterly side of Stuyvesant Place ; running thence southerly 

 along the easterly side of Stuyvesant Place 115 feet to the point or place 

 of beginning, — said land to be used as a site for the erection of a Museum 

 building by the said Association, and the premises, with the building and 

 other improvements thereon, to revert to the City of New York when- 

 ever it shall cease to be so used. This assignment being made upon the 

 express condition that the erection of the Museum building shall be com- 

 menced within two years from date, otherwise to be of no force or efifect. 



" The report was accepted, and the resolution adopted, all the members 

 present voting in the afifirmative." 



Announced Program 



Dr. Arthur HoUick gave an illustrated lecture on Some Evidences of 

 the Ice Age on and in the Vicinity of Staten Island. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, MARCH 17, I917 



The meeting was held in the assembly room of the Museum, 154 Stuy- 

 vesant Place, New Brighton. 



