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On motion, the report was received and an additional ap- 

 propriation of $500 was ordered to be placed to the credit of 

 the Poe Cottage Committee. 



The Treasurer reported that the bronze panel, the work 

 of the late Oscar L. Lenz, sculptor, had been placed in the 

 Mansion collection, and that the executors of the estate had 

 requested a suitable insurance for said panel be procured. On 

 motion, the Treasurer was authorized to insure the panel for 

 an amount not exceeding $500. 



Formal business only was transacted at the meetings of the 

 Society, on December 15, 191 7, and on January 19, 19 18. 



JANUARY 19, 19 1 8 

 Meeting of the Council 



The Chairman of the Council presented the following agree- 

 ment with the City of New York, relative to the care and 

 control of the Poe Cottage: 



This agreement made this 31st day of December in the 

 year one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, between The 

 City of New York, by the Department of Parks, acting by 

 and through the Commissioner of Parks for the Borough of 

 The Bronx, party of the first part, and the Bronx Society of 

 Arts and Sciences, a corporation organized under the Laws 

 of the State of New York, party of the second part, — 



Witnesseth, that the said party of the first part in con- 

 sideration of the terms, covenants and conditions hereinafter 

 contained on the part of the party of the second part to be 

 observed, fulfilled and kept according to the true intent and 

 meaning of these presents, and in order to promote and in- 

 crease the public enjoyment, use and convenience of the public 

 park known as Poe Park, in the Borough of The Bronx, The 

 City of New York hath granted, and by these presents doth 

 grant to the party of the second part, the privilege of occupy- 

 ing the cottage known as the Poe Cottage, together with the 

 grounds immediately surrounding and necessary to the proper 

 access thereto and enjoyment thereof : 



