Officers 
Quorum of the 
Corporation 
Original 
Endowment 
Grounds in 
Bronx Park 
250 Acres 
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shall be elected annually, pursuant to the by-laws of 
the corporation. The number of elective managers 
may be increased by vote of the corporation, whose 
terms and election shall be as above provided; and 
members may from time to time be added to the 
Scientific Directors by a majority vote of the Scientific 
Directors, approved by a majority vote of the whole 
Board of Managers. The Board of Managers shall 
elect from their number a President, Secretary and 
Treasurer, none of whom or of the Board of Managers, 
save the Secretary and Treasurer, shall receive any 
compensation for his services. Nine corporators shall 
constitute a quorum at any meeting of the incorpor- 
tors, but a less number may adjourn. 
SEc. 5. Whenever the said corporation shall have 
raised, or secured by subscription, a sum sufficient in 
the judgment of the Board of Commissioners of the 
Department of Public Parks in the City of New York, 
for successfully sel rebar: and prosecuting the 
objects aforesaid, not less, however, than two hundred 
and fifty thousand abe within seven years from 
the passage of this act, the said Board of Commis- 
sioners is hereby authorized and directed to set apart 
and appropriate upon such conditions as to the said 
Board may seem expedient, a portion of the Bronx 
Park, or of such other of the public parks in the City 
of New York north of the Harlem River in charge of 
the said Department of Parks as may be mutually 
agreed upon between the said Board of Commissioners 
and the Board of Managers of said corporation in lieu 
of Bronx Park, not exceeding two hundred and fifty 
acres, for establishing and maintaining therein by the 
said corporation a botanical garden and museum, 
including an herbarium and arboretum, and for the 
general purposes stated in the first section of this act. 
And the said Board of Commissioners is thereupon 
hereby authorized and directed to construct and equip 
