By the Legislature. 



CHAPTER 246. 



An Act to authorize a further appropriation for the maintenance of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History in the Central Park of the City of New York. 



Accepted by the City. 



Became a law March 26th, 1902, with the approval of the Governor. 



Passed, three-fifths being present. 



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

 do enact as follows: 



Section i. The Board of Estimate and Apportionment of The City of New 

 York may annually in its discretion include in the budget for the then next 

 ensuing financial year a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars to be 

 applied by the department of parks of said city through the Commissioner of 

 Parks for the Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond for keeping, preparing, 

 preserving and exhibiting the collections in the buildings in the Central Park 

 in the said city that are now or hereafter may be occupied by the American 

 Museum of Natural History in addition to the sum or sums now authorized 

 by law for such purposes. 



2. This act shall take effect immediately. 

 State of New York, [ 



Office of the Secretary of State. \ 



I have compared the preceding with the original law on file in this office, 

 and do hereby certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of 

 the whole of said original law. (Signed), 



John T. McDonough, 



Secretary of State. 



LEGAL ENACTMENTS OF 1902. 

 By the Board of Aldermen. 



An Ordinance to provide for an issue of Corporate Stock in the sum of two 

 hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) the proceeds to be used to provide means 

 for the construction and installation of a new heating and lighting plant for 

 the American Museum of Natural History, in the Borough of Manhattan. 



Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermeh of the City of New York, as follows: 



Section i. The Board of Aldermen hereby approves of and concurs in 

 the following resolution adopted by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 

 ment June 13, 1902, authorizing the Comptroller to issue Corporate Stock of 

 The City of New York to the amount and for the purposes therein specified. 



'■'■Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of Section 47 of the amended 

 Greater New York Charter, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment hereby 

 approves of the issue of bonds to an amount not exceeding two hundred 

 thousand dollars ($200,000), for the purpose of providing means to pay for the 

 construction and installation of a new heating and lighting plant for the 

 American Museum of Natural History, in the Borough of Manhattan, and 

 that when authority therefore shall have been obtained from the Board of 

 Aldermen, the Comptroller is authorized to issue Corporate Stock of The City 

 of New York in the manner provided by Section 169 of the Greater New York 

 Charter, as amended by Chapter 563 of the Laws of 1902, to an amount not 

 exceeding two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), the proceeds thereof to be 

 applied to the purposes aforesaid." 



Adopted by the Board of Aldermen July 22, 1902, a majority of all the 

 members elected voting in favor thereof. 



Approved by the Mayor July 30, 1902. (Signed), 



P. J. Scully, Clerk. 



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