FOR THE EQUIPPING AND FINISHING OF THE 



BUILDING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF 



ADDITIONS THERETO 



LEGAL ENACTMENTS OF 1905 



By the Board of Aldermen 



An Ordinance providing for an issue of Corporate Stock in the sum of 

 five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), to provide naeans for the equipping 

 and finishing of The American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan 

 Square, Borough of Manhattan, and the construction of additions thereto. 



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 March 16, 1905, and authorizes 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 Greater 

 New York Charter, as amended by chapter 409 of the Laws of 1904, the 

 Board of Estimate and Apportionment hereby approves of the issue of 

 Corporate Stock of the City of New York, to an amount not exceeding five 

 hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), to provide means for the equipping and 

 furnishing of The American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan Square, 

 Borough of Manhattan, and the construction of additions thereto, 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, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), 

 the proceeds whereof to be applied to the purposes aforesaid." 



Adopted by the Board of Aldermen April 11, 1905, a majority of all the 

 members elected voting in favor thereof. 



Approved by the Mayor April 18, 1905. (Signed) P. J. Scully, Clerk. 



Contracts awarded to December 31, 1906. 



For the erection of Fire Lines, Sprinkler System, Fire Escapes, etc. 

 Contract awarded R. J. F. Gerstle Company, November 26, 1905, $19,838. 

 Completed January 11, 1907. 



For the erection and completion of a New Wing, to be known as the South 

 Wing of the West Fagade, and a Permanent Cellar Passageway running there- 

 from in northerly and easterly direction. 



Contract awarded Guidone & Galardi, May 22, 1906, $325,000. 



Completed June 6, 1908. 



For the construction of a Service Roadway from Ninth Avenue to and 

 under the New South Wing of the West Facade. 



Contract awarded Atlanta Contracting Company, July i, 1909, $26,000. 



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