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the appropriation the sum of $20,000.00 to provide for sewer and 
water pipes in Bronx Park, as requested in your communication of 
the same date. Pursuant to such action, a request for the appro- 
priation of the sum named was duly communicated to the Board of 
Estimate and Apportionment. 
Respectfully, Wittram Leary, 
Secretary. 
Being informed that $50,000.00 additional appropriation 
for the parks north of the Harlem had been made by the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment, but that the item for 
water pipes and sewer pipes for the Botanical Garden had 
not been specified, your Committee requested the Board of 
Estimate and Apportionment to specify this item, in order 
that the money might be available when needed; but your 
Committee is informed that the Board decided that it did not 
have the power to do so. 
At a meeting of the Committee on Plans, held November 
4, 1897, the Secretary was instructed to transmit the follow- 
ing letter to the Commissioners of Public Parks: 
I am instructed by the Committee on Plans of the Board of 
Managers, New York Botanical Garden, to request you to construct 
driveways and paths of the Garden north and east of the Southern 
Boulevard, in accordance with the general plan filed with your 
honorable Board on June 12th, 1897. 
Iam further instructed to say that in the opinion of the Com- 
mittee it is most desirable that the driveways and paths in the 
vicinity of the site of the museum building should be promptly con- 
structed. 
The following letter, dated Nov. 17th, 1897, was received 
in reply: 
At a meeting of the Board of Parks, held on the 15th inst., the 
matter of the request of your Board of Managers, as contained in 
your communication of the 15th inst., respecting the construction 
of driveways and paths in the Botanical Garden grounds north and 
east of the Southern Boulevard in Bronx Park, was considered and 
approved, the work to be done at such time as funds may become 
available for the purpose. 
Respectfully, Witiiam Leary, 
Secretary. 
