CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW 

 HEATING AND LIGHTING PLANT. 



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 Aldermen 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 therefor 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. 



Contracts awarded to December 31, 1903. 



For the Erection and Completion of a New Wing for a New Heating, Power 

 and Electric Light Plant, for the American Museum of Natural History. 

 Contract awarded Thomas Cockerill & Son, May 18, 1903, $184,500. 



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