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commissioner may apply such sum as shall be fixed by the 

 board of estimate and apportionment for the keeping, preserva- 

 tion and exhibition of the collections placed or contained in 

 buildings or institutions now situated or hereafter erected in the 

 parks, squares or public places under the jurisdiction of such 

 co : missioner. 



§625. The commissioner for the borough of The Bronx is 

 hereby authorized and directed to carry out the existing con- 

 trac made by and between the department of parks of the 

 corporation heretofore known as the mayor, aldermen and com- 

 monalty of the city of New York and the board of managers of 

 the corporation known as the New York Botanical Garden pur- 

 suant to the provisions of chapter two hundred and eighty-five 

 of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An 

 act to provide for the establishment of a botanic garden and 

 museum and arboretum in Bronx park in The City of New York 

 and to incorporate the New York Botanical Garden for carrying 

 on the same," as amended by chapter one hundred and three of 

 the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, which contract 

 provides for the allotting and setting apart for the uses of said 

 garden of two hundred and fifty acres of land or less in the 

 northern part of Bronx Park as shown upon a certain map 

 thereof numbered five hundred and sixty-eight, and signed by 

 Messrs. Vaux and Parsons, and filed with the former department 

 of public parks of the corporation known as the mayor, aldermen 

 and commonalty of the city of New York. 



