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for the Director’s and the gardeners’ houses, and to submit 
the plan thus revised to the Park Commissioners on June 21, 
1897. 
At the meeting of the Commissioners of Parks, held June 
21st, the following resolution was adopted: 
Resolved, That the plans now before this Board, as pre- 
pared and submitted by the Board of Managers of the New 
York Botanical Garden, showing proposed buildings to be 
erected on the grounds allotted for the use of the New York 
Botanical Garden in Bronx Park, be and the same hereby are 
approved, reserving the right, however, to determine as to a 
driveway entrance at Scott Avenue, and the width thereof. 
Ata meeting of the Park Commissioners, held July 19, 
1897, the following resolutions were adopted : 
Fesolved, That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment 
be, and hereby is, respectfully requested to authorize the 
Comptroller to issue bonds to the amount of Five Hundred 
Thousand Dollars ($500,000), in the manner provided by 
Chapter 285 of the Laws of 1891 as amended by Chapter 
717 of the Laws of 1896, in such sums as may be from time 
to time required for the purpose of erecting Museum and 
other buildings on the lands allotted for the use of the New 
York Botanical Garden in Bronx Park. 
Fesolved, That the plans, specifications and forms of con- 
tract this day received for the erection of a Museum Build- 
ing, power house, stable, closet group and greenhouses in 
Bronx Park for the purpose of the New York Botanical Gar- 
den be approved, and the specifications and form of contract 
ordered printed, and when printed and approved as to form 
by the Council to the Corporation, and funds shall be avail- 
able therefor, that an advertisement be inserted in ‘* The City 
Record” inviting proposals for doing the work. 
ftesolved, That the selection by the Board of Managers of 
the New York Botanical Garden of R. W. Gibson and Lord 
& Burnham Company as architects of buildings to be erected 
on the grounds set apart for the use of said Garden in Bronx 
Park, be and hereby is approved, and that the compensation 
