FOR THE EQUIPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF 



PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS TO THE AMERICAN 



MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



LEGAL ENACTMENTS OF 1913 

 By the Board of Aldermen 



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

 New York to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), 

 to provide means for the purchase of cases, etc., for equipment and construc- 

 tion of permanent improvements for the American Museum of Natural History, 

 under the jurisdiction of the Department of Parks, Boroughs of 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 October 23, 1913, 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, 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 twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), to provide means for the 

 purchase of cases, bookstacks, furniture, etc., for equipment, and the con- 

 duction 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 pro- 

 ceeds thereof to the amount of the par value of the stock to be applied to the 

 purposes aforesaid. 



Adopted by the Board of Aldermen December 2, 1913, a majority of all 

 the members elected voting in favor thereof. 



Received from his Honor, the Mayor, December 16, 1913, 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 THEREON TO DECEMBER 31, 1913 

 Receipts : 



By Direct Appropriation (CD. P. 3c) $25,000 00 



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