FOR THE EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF 



PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS TO THE AMERICAN 



MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



LEGAL ENACTMENTS OF igii 

 By the Board of Aldermen 



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

 of New York in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, to provide means 

 for furnishings for 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 : 



'"'■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 seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), to provide 

 means for the purchase of cases, bookstacks, furniture, etc., for equipments 

 and the construction of permanent improvements for the American Museum 

 of Natural History, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, 

 Boroughs of Manhattan and Richmond, 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, 1911, 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, 1912 

 Receipts : 



By Direct Appropriation (C.D.P. 3c) . . .* $75,000 00 



Cancellation by Request 10,000 00 



Available Balance $65,000 00 



Expenditures : 

 Contracts Paid : 



Balfour & Koch $2,278 00 



The Van Dorn Iron Works Co 3,872 00 $6,150 00 



Open Market Orders 16,679 34 



Mechanics' Pay Roll 22,755 08 



Outstanding Open Market Orders 1.523 22 



Contracts Outstanding: 



Joseph Di Benedetto $2,698 00 



American Wood Working Machin- 

 ery Co 1,100 00 



The Snead & Co. Iron Works 4,320 00 



Trowbridge & Livingston 508 03 8,626 03 55,733 67 



Balance December 31, 1912 $9,266 33 



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