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and the northern side of Pelham Avenue, as more fully described 

 in the enclosed resolution. 



Respectfully, 



(Signed) Joseph Haag, 



Secretary 



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Resolved: That the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, as 

 authorized by Chapter 473 of the Laws of 1914, hereby sets 

 apart and appropriates for the extension and development of 

 the work and objects of The New York Botanical Garden, that 

 portion of Bronx Park in The City of New York situated between 

 the southerly boundary of the land in Bronx Park heretofore 

 appropriated for the use of said The New York Botanical Garden 

 by the board of commissioners of the Department of Public 

 Parks, and the northern side of Pelham Avenue, which is more 

 particularly bounded and described as follows, to wit: 



Beginning at a point on the easterly line of the Southern 

 Boulevard, where the said Boulevard intersects the southern 

 boundary line of the Botanical Garden, which point is 1,401 

 feet north of the northerly line of the Bronx and Pelham Park- 

 way; thence easterly along the line of the southerly boundary 

 line of said Botanical Garden to the middle of the Bronx River, 

 a distance of 1,300 feet; thence northerly along the middle of 

 the Bronx River to a point where the southerly boundary line of 

 the Botanical Garden intersects the said river, a distance of 

 1,815 feet; thence easterly along the said southerly boundary 

 line to the westerly line of Bronx Park East, a distance of 1,301 

 feet; thence southerly along the westerly line of Bronx Park East 

 to the northerly line of the Bronx and Pelham Parkway, a distance 

 of 1,393 feet; thence westerly along the northerly line of the Bronx 

 and Pelham Parkway to the easterly line of the Southern Boule- 

 vard, a distance of 2,861 feet; thence northerly along the easterly 

 line of the Southern Boulevard to the point of beginning, a 

 distance of 1,401 feet, which said land, including Parcels "A," 

 "B," and " C," excepted and reserved as hereinafter set forth, 

 consists of approximately 150 acres, excepting thereout and re- 



