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Resolved, That the arrangements made by the late Central Park 

 Commissioners with the American Museum of Natural History, and all 

 matters pertaining thereto be referred to Commissioner Hilton, with 

 power to carry out the same, procure the necessary cases, prepare the 

 second and third floors of the Arsenal building for the Exhibition, and 

 make the necessary arrangement therefor. 

 Respectfully, 



GEORGE M. VAN NORT, 



C. B. P. P. 



To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York : 



The undersigned, citizens of the City of New-York, respectfully pe- 

 tition that authority may be given to the Department of Public Parks 

 in said city to erect suitable fireproof buildings upon the public lands 

 in said city under their charge, for the establishment and maintenance 

 therein of a Museum of Art by The Metropolitan Museum op Art, 

 incorporated by Act of April 13, 1870, and a Museum of Natural History 

 by the American Museum op Natural History, incorporated by Act 

 of April 6, 1869, at an aggregate cost not exceeding five hundred 

 thousand dollars for each corporation. 



JOHN DAVID WOLFE 13 Madison Avenue. 



JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON 8 Fifth Avenue. 



JAMES BROWN 38 East 37th Street. 



ROBERT L. STUART 154 Fifth Avenue. 



WILSON O. HUNT 82 White Street. 



S. J. TILDEN 15 Grramercy Park. 



WM. C. BRYANT Roslyn L. I. 



ROBERT COLGATE 14 West 23d Street. 



D. JACKSON STEWARD 150 Fifth Avenue. 



E. D. MORGAN 411 Fifth Avenue. 



ADRIAN ISELIN 23 East 26th Street. 



WILLIAM T. BLODGETT 182 Broadway. 



BENJ. H. FIELD 21 East 26th Street. 



JOHN A. DIX 3 West 21st Street. 



I. N. PHELPS 229 Madison Avenue. 



JAMES STOKES 37 Madison Avenue. 



RICHARD MORTIMER, 20 East 23d Street. 



SAMUEL B. F. MORSE 5 West 22d Street. 



JAMES B. COLGATE 22 East 23d Street. 



DARLING, GRISWOLD & CO Fifth Avenue Hotel. 



ARNOLD, CONSTABLE & GO Canal Street. 



SAMUEL L. M. BARLOW 1 Madison Avenue. 



W. M. HALSTED 584 Fifth Avenue. 



WM. S. GAIDLER 8 East 23d Street. 



B. H HUTTON 144 Duane Street. 



D. WILLIS JAMES Park Avenue, 39th Street. 



W. E. DODGE, Jr 262 Madison Avenue. 



BENJ. B. SHERMAN 16 West 20th Street. 



THEODORE ROOSEVELT 28 East 20th Street. 



EDWARD MATTHEWS 101 Fifth Avenue. 



