THE MAINTENANCE APPROPRIATION. 



By the Legislature, 1902. 



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. 



Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 



State of New York, / 



Office of the Secretary of State. J 



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. 



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