DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 79 



THE MUSEUM BUILDING. 



CHAPTER 577. LAWS OF 1894. 



An Act to Amend Chapter Eighty-nine of the Laws of Eighteen 



Hundred and Ninety-one, Entitled "An Act to Provide for 



the Erection of Museum Buildings on Park Lands in the 



City of Brooklyn, and to Authorize Leases Thereof 



to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences." 



Became a law May 9, 1894, with the approval of the Governor. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do 

 enact as follows : 



Section I. Section one of chapter eighty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred 

 and ninety-one, entitled, "An Act to provide for the erection of museum build- 

 ings on park lands in the City of Brooklyn, and to authorize leases thereof to the 

 Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences," is hereby amended so as to read as 

 follows : 



Section I. The Mayor and the Park Commissioner of the City of Brooklyn are 

 hereby authorized to construct, erect and maintain on park lands, bounded by 

 Flatbush avenue, the Eastern Parkway and Washington avenue, in the City of 

 Brooklyn, a suitable fire-proof building or buildings, for the purpose of establish- 

 ing and maintaining therein, under proper rules and regulations, to be approved 

 by the said Mayor and Commissioner, museums of art and science, by the Brook- 

 lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, incorporated by chapter one hundred and 

 seventy-two of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, at an aggregate cost not 

 exceeding a sum of which the annual interest, at the rate of interest at which a 

 fund or bond shall be issued is twelve thousand dollars, and the Mayor, Comp- 

 troller and City Clerk of said city, are hereby authorized to prepare and issue 

 bonds of the City of Brooklyn, to be known as Museums of Art and Science bonds, 

 signed, sealed and countersigned in the same manner as other bonds of said city, 

 and bearing interest at a rate not to exceed four per centum per annum, payable 

 semi-annually, to be issued in such form and for such lengths of time as the said 

 Mayor and Comptroller, in their judgment, may determine, and the said bonds 

 shall be exempt from taxation, and the proceeds received from the sale of said 

 bonds and all premiums thereon shall be paid to the City Treasurer of the City of 

 Brooklyn to the credit of a fund, which is hereby created, to be known as the 

 Museum of Art and Science Fund, and shall be paid out, from time to time, as 

 required, for the purpose of constructing, erecting and maintaining said building 

 or buildings, upon the requisition of the Mayor and Park Commissioner of said 

 city ; but no bonds shall be issued for the erection of said museum building unless 

 the said Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences shall have duly certified to the 

 said Mayor and Comptroller that the funds of the said Institute in hand are ap- 



