FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOUNDATION 



FOR THE SOUTHEAST WING AND COURT 



BUILDING OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 



OF NATURAL HISTORY 



LEGAL ENACTMENTS OF 1911 



By the Board of Aldermen 



An Ordinance providing for an issue of corporate stock of The City 

 of New York in the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to provide means 

 for additions to Museum of Natural History, under the jurisdiction of the 

 Department of Parks, Manhattan and Richmond. 



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 July 17, 191 1, and authorizes the Comptroller to issue corporate stock 

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



11 Resolved, That, pursuant to the provisions of section 47 of the Greater 

 New York Charter, as amended, 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 two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), to 

 provide means for the construction of a foundation for the southeast wing 

 and court building of the American Museum of Natural History, under the 

 jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, Boroughs of Manhattan and Rich- 

 mond, and that when authority therefor shall have been obtained from the 

 Board of Aldermen, the Comptroller be and is hereby authorized to issue 

 said corporate stock of The City of New York in the manner provided by 

 section 169 of the Greater New York Charter, the proceeds thereof to the 

 amount of the par value of the stock to be applied to the purposes aforesaid." 



Adopted by the Board of Aldermen July 31, 191 1, a majority of all the 

 members elected voting in favor thereof. 



Received from his Honor, the Mayor, Sept. 19, 191 1, without his 

 approval or disapproval thereof; therefore, as provided in section 40 of the 

 Greater New York Charter, the same took effect as if he had approved it. 



(Signed) P. J. Scully, Clerk. 



APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES THEREON TO 

 DECEMBER 31, 1915 

 Receipts : 



By Direct Appropriation (CD. P. 3b) $200,000 00 



Expenditures : 



Phillips & Worthington (boring for foundation). . $448 83 



Engineers' Services 89 26 



Benedetto & Egan Construction Co. (excavating) 49,796 00 



Architects' Fees (reserved) . . 37,857 14 88,191 23 



Balance December 31, 1915 $111,808 77 



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