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ident, Secretary and Treasurer, none of whom or of the Board 
of Managers, save the Secretary and Treasurer, shall receive 
any compensation for his services. Vine corporators shall 
constitute a quorum at any meeting of the incorporators, but 
a less number may adjourn. 
Src. 5. Whenever the said corporation shall have raised, 
or secured by subscription, a sum sufficient in the judgment 
of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public 
Parks in the City of New York, for successfully establishing 
and prosecuting the objects aforesaid, not less, however, than 
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars within seven years 
from the passage of this act, the said Board of Commissioners 
is hereby authorized and directed to set apart and appropriate 
upon such conditions as to the said Board may seem expedient, 
a portion of the Bronx Park, or of such other of the public 
parks in the City of New York north of the Harlem River in 
charge of the said Department of Parks as may be mutually 
agreed upon between the said Board of Commissioners and 
the Board of Managers of said corporation in lieu of Bronx 
Park, not exceeding two hundred and fifty acres, for estab- 
lishing and maintaining therein by the said corporation a 
botanical garden and museum, including an herbarium and 
arboretum, and for the general purposes stated in the first sec- 
tion of this act. And the said Board of Commissioners is 
thereupon hereby authorized and directed to construct and 
equip within the said grounds so alloted, according to plans 
approved by them and by said Board of Managers, a suitable 
fire proof building for such botanical museum and herbarium, 
with lecutre rooms and laboratories for instruction, together 
with other suitable buildings for the care and culture of ten- 
der or other plants, indigenous or exotic, at an aggregate cost 
not exceeding the bonds hereinafter authorized to be issued 
by the City of New York; the use of said buildings upon 
completion to be transferred to said corporation for the pur- 
poses stated in this act. And for the purpose of providing 
means therefor, it shall be the duty of the Comptroller of the 
