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Mr. James Matruews, ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 
oard of Estimate and Apportionment, 
Municipal one New York City: 
Dear Sir* I f your letter of December 28, 
together with a eertined: copy a ae ene ees by the 
Board of Estimate and Peperonment on December 21, 1917, 
approving the by the Board of ne 
of the New York Beanical Garden. 
ours pees 
ned) N. L. Brirron, 
paciee Chief 
(Cal. 132.) 
WHEREAS the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, at a 
meeting held on January 29, 1915, adopted a resolution setting 
for the New York 
factory to the Board should be made for the accommodation of 
picnic parties at suitable places, the aggregate area required for 
this purpose not to exceed ten acres, an 
HEREAS the President of the Borough of The Bronx has 
transmitted to the Board a communication addressed to him by 
the Director-in-Chief of the New York Botanical Garden de- 
piers four areas set apart for use as picnic grounds and shown 
a diagram attached to said letter, from which communication 
it appears that these areas have been used during the summer o 
1917 in order to test their suitability and have been found satis- 
factory and well adapted to the purpose. 
Therefore, be it resolved that the four picnic grounds set aside 
accompanying such communication, both of which were trans- 
mitted to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment by the 
President of the Borough of The Bronx, be and the same hereby 
are approved as satisfactory. 
