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Officers 



Quorum of the 

 Corporation 



Original 

 Endowment 



Grounds in 

 Bronx Park 

 250 Acres 



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- 

 ators, 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 establishing and prosecuting the 

 objects aforesaid, not less, however, than two hundred 

 and fifty thousand dollars 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 



