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within the said grounds so alloted, according to plans Construction 

 approved by them and by said Board of Managers, a °* Buildings 

 suitable fire proof building for such botanical museum 

 and herbarium, with lecture rooms and laboratories 

 for instruction, together with other suitable buildings 

 for the care and culture of tender or other plants, 

 indigenous or exotic, at an aggregate cost not exceeding 

 the bonds hereinafter authorized to be issued by the 

 City of New York; the use of said buildings upon 

 completion to be transferred to said corporation for 

 the purposes stated in this act. And for the purpose 

 of providing means therefor, it shall be the duty of 

 the Comptroller of the City of New York, upon being 

 thereto requested by said Commissioners, and upon 

 being authorized thereto by the Board of Estimate 

 and Apportionment, to issue and sell at not less than 

 their par value bonds or stock of the Mayor, Aldermen 

 and Commonalty of the City of New York, in the 

 manner now provided by law, payable from taxation, 

 aggregating the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, 

 bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three and one- 

 half per centum per annum, and to be redeemed within 

 a period of time not longer than thirty years from the 

 date of their issue. 



Sec. 5-a. The Board of Estimate and Apportion- 

 ment of the City of New York may, in its discretion, 

 set apart and appropriate, upon such conditions as it 

 may deem expedient, for the extension and develop- 

 ment of the work and objects of the said New York p ower f the 

 Botanical Garden, the whole or any part of that City to 

 portion of Bronx Park in the city of New York situated appropriate 

 between the southern boundary of the land in Bronx additional 

 park heretofore appropriated for the use of the said lancl 

 New York Botanical Garden by the Board of Com- 

 missioners of the Department of Public Parks, and the 

 northern side of Pelham Avenue; the land so to be 

 appropriated to be described more particularly in 



