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& Burnham Company, architects, at the office of the Building 
Department, which on December 30th approved the plans, and 
issued the necessary permit for the erection of the building. 
From the Mayor’s message of January 1, 1898, it appears 
that City bonds to the amount of One Hundred and Twenty- 
five Thousand Dollars ($125,000) have been issued towards 
the erection of the Museum Building. 
During the summer a plan showing the system of water 
supply pipes, taken from the General plan of the Garden, 
was submitted to the Chief Engineer of the Department of 
Public Works, with a request that permission be granted to 
place a connection with the 36-inch water main, running 
through the grounds, at a point in front of the site of the 
Museum Building, and on September 14, 1897, the plan was 
approved by him without modification, and the following 
permit received : 
The bearer has permission to place a six-inch connection on the 
36-inch main in Bronx Park, east of Bedford Park Station, Harlem 
Railroad, without shutting off the main. 
£0. H. Brrpsatt, 
Chief Engineer. 
At a meeting of the Committee on Plans, held November 
4, 1897, the Secretary was directed to address the following 
letter to the Commissioners of Public Parks: 
I am instructed by the Committee on Plans of the Board of Man- 
agers of the New York Botanical Garden to request your honor- 
able Board to include in the estimates for appropriations for the 
Department of Parks for 1898, the sum of $20,000.00, for the 
laying of water pipes and sewer pipes in the grounds set apart and 
provided for the use of the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx 
ark. 
The money provided by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment, under the act of incorporation, is applicable only to build- 
ings. 
The following answer was received, dated December 6, 
1897: 
At a meeting of the Board of Parks, held on the 8th ult., the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment was requested to include in 
