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§ 5- Said corporation may take and hold by purchase, grant, lease, 

 gfift, devise or bequest, either absolutely or in trust, real or personal 

 property, necessary or proper for the purposes of its incorporation and 

 for the endowment of the same or any branch thereof. 



§ 6. The natural science association of Staten Island and its board of 

 trustees are hereby authorized to assign and convey all the property, 

 real or personal, owned and held by it, and the said property when so 

 transferred to, shall vest in and be held and used for the said Staten 

 Island association of arts and sciences, as its successor, for the uses and 

 purposes set forth in section two of this act. When the transfer of this 

 property hereby authorized shall be completed and an affidavit made to 

 that effect by the president of the natural science association of Staten' 

 Island and sworn to before a justice of the supreme court, shall 

 be filed in the office of the secretary of state, the corporate existence of 

 the said natural science association of Staten Island shall cease and 

 determine. 



§ 7. The commissioners of the sinking fund of the city of New York 

 may authorize the president of the borough of Richmond to provide 

 such room or rooms in the borough building, in the borough of Rich- 

 mond, city of New York, as may not otherwise be in use, and they 

 may otherwise provide and set apart land in said borough for the erec- 

 tion of a suitable building or buildings thereon, for the keeping and 

 maintaining of the museum, collection and library of the Staten Island 

 association of arts and sciences, subject to all the conditions in section 

 two hundred and seventeen, chapter four hundred and forty-six, of the 

 laws of nineteen hundred and one, and for the purpose of providing 

 means for the erection of said building or buildings it shall be the duty 

 of the comptroller of the city of New York, upon being authorized 

 thereto by the board of estimate and apportionment, to issue and sell 

 corporate stock of the city of New York, in the manner now provided 

 by law, sufficient for the same; and the board of estimate and apportion- 

 ment may include in the annual budget for the maintenance and care of 

 said museum, collection and library of the Staten Island association of 

 arts and sciences a sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and the 

 board of trustees of the said Staten Island association of arts and sci- 

 ences are empowered to enter into a contract with the proper officials 

 of the city of New York, looking to the leasing of such rooms and 

 building or buildings, and the care of its museum, collection and library 

 as herein provided. 



§ 8. The museum, collection and library of the said Staten Island 

 association of arts and sciences shall be open and free to the public at 

 all reasonable times on such terms of admission as shall be approved 



