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OliDINANCE No. ML OE 1878. 
An Ordinance to confirm arrangements relating to the 
Agri-liorticultural Society and the Baffles Museum 
and Library, and to provide for the more efficient 
management of the said Institutions. 
Island, ct i' Lai 
sale dated tin 
Government, 
Octobe> I8( 
[ 16M December , 1878. ] 
WILLIAM C. F. ROBINSON, 
Governor and Commander -hi- Chief. 
SHEAS a Society was formed in Singapore in or about the 
year 1866, for the encouragement and improvement of 
agriculture r ul horticulture, and the said Society became possessed 
of a certain \ e of land in 6 -.strict of Tanglin, in Singapore 
. - rood, and 19 perches under a deed of 
ly of March, I860 ; And W hereas the then 
to aid the ; .?id .Society, an Abe 27th day of 
;> the Vice-President and Treasurer of the 
Society muter the name 'be Agri -horticultural Society a grant 
o f 'res, 3 roods, and 2 poles of Crown land in the same 
press condition that the said land should he 
poses, under the title and designation of a The 
Society's Gardens/' with a proviso that if the 
aOi be used for the public purpose of an Agri- 
^ral Garden or Gardens it should revert to the Crown ; 
hereas . said Society for the purpose of procuring 
build a dwelling-house for the Curator of the said 
wardens, mortgaged the said lands for the sum of four thousand 
dollars ; 
And Whereas the Government of the Colony contributed the 
sum of one thousand and two hundred dollars annually, for the 
purpose of carrying on the said Gardens, the rest of the funds 
having been raised by private subscription ; 
And V hereas the said Society became unable, owing to the 
want of funds, to any on the work at the said Gardens in such 
a way as to be useful to the public, and in the year 1871, applied 
