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Act of Incorporation
Constitution
By-Laws
Regulations for the Office of Director-in-Chief
Provisions for Contributing Membership
Provisions of the Charter of the City of New York for Maintenance

Reprinted from the JOURNAL OF THE NEW YorK BoTANICAL GARDEN
Vol. XV, No. 175. July, 1914

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PresipENT—W. GILMAN THOMPSON
aS ANDREW CARNEGIE
sical mnintariar ; FRANCIS LYNDE STETSON

TREASURER—JAMES A. SCRYMSER
SrEcrETARY—N. L. BRITTON

BOARD OF MANAGERS
1. ELECTED MANAGERS
Term expires January, 1915

N. L. BRITTON W. J. MATHESON
ANDREW CARNEGIE W. GILMAN THOMPSON
LEWIS RUTHERFORD MORRIS

Term expires January, 1916

THOMAS H. HUBBARD FRANCIS LYNDE STETSON
GEORGE W. PERKINS MYLES TIERNEY
LOUIS C. TIFFANY

Term expires January, 1917

EDWARD D. ADAMS JAMES A. SCRYMSER
ROBERT W. vE FOREST HENRY W. ve FOREST
J. P. MORGAN DANIEL GUGGENHEIM

2. EX-OFFICIO MANAGERS

Tue Mayor oF THE City oF New York
HON. JOHN PURROY MITCHEL
' THE PRESIDENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS
HON. GEORGE CABOT WARD

3. SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS
PROF. H. H. RUSBY, Chairman

EUGENE P. BICKNELL PROF. WILLIAM J. GIES
DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER PROF. R. A. HARPER
THOMAS W. CHURCHILL PROF. JAMES F. KEMP

PROF. FREDERIC S. LEE

GARDEN STARE }

DR. N. L. BRITTON, Director-in-Chief (Development, Administration)
DR. W. A. MURRILL, Assistant Director (Administration)
DR. JOHN K. SMALL, Head Curator of the Museums (Flowering Plants)
DR. P. A. RYDBERG, Curator (Flowering Plants)
DR. MARSHALL A. HOWE, Curator (Flowerless Plants)
DR. FRED J. SEAVER, Curator (Flowerless Plants)
ROBERT S. WILLIAMS, Administrative Assistant
PERCY WILSON, Associate Curator
GEORGE V. NASH, Head Gardener
DR. A. B. STOUT, Director of the Laboratories
DR. JOHN HENDLEY BARNHART, Bibliographer
SARAH H. HARLOW, Librarian
DR. H. H. RUSBY, Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections
ELIZABETH G. BRITTON, Honorary Curator of Mosses
DR. ARTHUR HOLLICK, Honorary Curator of Fossil Plants
DR. WILLIAM J. GIES, Consulting Chemist
COL. F. A. SCHILLING, Museum Custodian
JOHN R. BRINLEY, Landscape Engineer
WALTER S. GROESBECK, Clerk and Accountant
ARTHUR J. CORBETT, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds

The New York Botanical Garden

ACT OF INCORPORATION,

AS AMENDED BY CHAPTER 103 OF THE LAWS OF 1894,
CHAPTER 717 OF THE LAWS OF 1896 AND CHAPTER 473
OF THE LAWS OF I9I4

CHAPTER 285

AN ACT to provide for the establishment of a
botanic garden and museum and arboretum, in Bronx
Park, in the City of New York, and to incorporate
The New York Botanical Garden for carrying on the
same.

Approved by the Governor April 28, 1891. Passed,
three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Seth Low, Charles P. Daly, John S.
Newberry, Charles A. Dana, Addison Brown, Parke
Godwin, Henry C. Potter, Charles Butler, Hugh J.
Grant, Edward Cooper, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Nathan-
iel L. Britton, Morris K. Jesup, J. Pierpont Morgan,
Andrew Carnegie, Thomas F. Gilroy, Eugene Kelly,
Jr., Richard T. Auchmuty, D. O. Mills, Charles F.
Chandler, Louis Fitzgerald, Theodore W. Myers,

[Journal for June, 1914 (15: 119-130) was issued June 26, 1914]

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The
Corporation

Purposes of
the Garden

Powers of the
Corporation

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William C. Schermerhorn, Oswald Ottendorfer, Albert
Gallup, Timothy F. Allen, Henry R. Hoyt, William G.
Choate, William H. Draper, John S. Kennedy, Jesse
Seligman, William L. Brown, David Lydig, William E.
Dodge, James A. Scrymser, Samuel Sloan, William H.
Robertson, Stephen P. Nash, Richard W. Gilder,
Thomas Hogg, Nelson Smith, Samuel W. Fairchild,
Robert Maclay, William H. S. Wood, George M.
Olcut, Charles F. Cox, James R. Pitcher, Percy R.
Pyne and such persons as are now, or may hereafter
be associated with them, and their successors, are
hereby constituted and created a body corporate by
the name of The New York Botanical Garden, to be
located in the City of New York, for the purpose of
establishing and maintaining a botanical garden and
museum and arboretum therein, for the collection and
culture of plants, flowers, shrubs and trees, the ad-
vancement of botanical science and knowledge, and
the prosecution of original researches therein and in
kindred subjects, for affording instruction in the same,
for the prosecution and exhibition of ornamental and
decorative horticulture and gardening, and for the
entertainment, recreation and instruction of the
people.

Sec. 2. Said corporation shall have all such cor-
porate powers, and may take and hold by gift, grant
or devise all such real and personal property as may
be necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes
aforesaid, and for the endowment of the same, or any
branch thereof, by adequate funds therefor.

SEc. 3. Said corporation may adopt a constitution
and by-laws; make rules and regulations for the
transaction of its business, the admission, suspension
and expulsion of the associate members of said cor-
poration, and for the number, election, terms, and
duties of its officers, subject to the provisions of this
act; and may from time to time alter or modify its

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constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, and shall
be subject to the provisions of Title 3, of Chapter 18,
- of the first part of the Revised Statutes.

Sec. 4. The affairs of the said corporation shall be
managed and controlled by a Board of Managers as
follows: The president of Columbia College, the
professors of botany, of geology and of chemistry
therein, the president of the Torrey Botanical Club,
and the President of the Board of Education of the
City of New York, and their successors in office, shall
be ex-officio members of said corporation and of the
Board of Managers, and be known as the Scien-
tific Directors; they shall have the management and
control of the scientific and educational departments
of said corporation and the appointment of the
Director-in-Chief of said institution, who shall appoint
his first assistant and the chief gardener, and be
responsible for the general scientific conduct of the
institution. All other business and affairs of the
corporation, including its financial management, shall
be under the control of the whole Board of Managers,
which shall consist of the Scientific Directors, as
herein provided, and of the Mayor of the City of New
York, the President of the Board of Commissioners of
the Department of Public Parks, and at least nine
other managers to be elected by the members of the
corporation. The first election shall be by ballot, and
held on a written notice of ten days, addressed by mail
to each of the above-named incorporators, stating
the time and place of election, and signed by at least
five incorporators., Three of the managers so elected
shall hold office for one year, three for two years,
and three for three years. The term of office of the
managers elected after the first election, save those
elected to fill vacancies in unexpired terms, shall be
three years; and three managers and such others as
may be needed to fill vacancies in unexpired terms

Board of
Managers

Scientific
Directors

Director-in-
Chief

Representa-
tives of the —
City

Elective
Managers

Officers

Quorum of the
Corporation

Original
Endowment

Grounds in
Bronx Park
250 Acres

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shall be elected annually, pursuant to the by-laws of
the corporation. The number of elective managers
may be increased by vote of the corporation, whose
terms and election shall be as above provided; and
members may from time to time be added to the
Scientific Directors by a majority vote of the Scientific
Directors, approved by a majority vote of the whole
Board of Managers. The Board of Managers shall
elect from their number a President, Secretary and
Treasurer, none of whom or of the Board of Managers,
save the Secretary and Treasurer, shall receive any
compensation for his services. Nine corporators shall
constitute a quorum at any meeting of the incorpor-
ators, but a less number may adjourn.

Sec. 5. Whenever the said corporation shall have
raised, or secured by subscription, a sum sufficient in
the judgment of the Board of Commissioners of the
Department of Public Parks in the City of New York,
for successfully establishing and prosecuting the
objects aforesaid, not less, however, than two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars within seven years from
the passage of this act, the said Board of Commis-
sioners is hereby authorized and directed to set apart
and appropriate upon such conditions as to the said
Board may seem expedient, a portion of the Bronx
Park, or of such other of the public parks in the City
of New York north of the Harlem River in charge of
the said Department of Parks as may be mutually
agreed upon between the said Board of Commissioners
and the Board of Managers of said corporation in lieu
of Bronx Park, not exceeding two hundred and fifty
acres, for establishing and maintaining therein by the
said corporation a botanical garden and museum,
including an herbarium and arboretum, and for the
general purposes stated in the first section of this act.
And the said Board of Commissioners is thereupon
hereby authorized and directed to construct and equip

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within the said grounds so alloted, according to plans
approved by them and by said Board of Managers, a
suitable fire proof building for such botanical museum
and herbarium, with lecture rooms and laboratories
for instruction, together with other suitable buildings
for the care and culture of tender or other plants,
indigenous or exotic, at an aggregate cost not exceeding
the bonds hereinafter authorized to be issued by the
City of New York; the use of said buildings upon
completion to be transferred to said corporation for
the purposes stated in this act. And for the purpose
of providing means therefor, it shall be the duty of
the Comptroller of the City of New York, upon being
thereto requested by said Commissioners, and upon
being authorized thereto by the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment, to issue and sell at not less than
their par value bonds or stock of the Mayor, Aldermen
and Commonalty of the City of New York, in the
manner now provided by law, payable from taxation,
aggregating thesum of five hundred thousand dollars,
bearing interest at a rate not exceeding three and one-
half per centum per annum, and to be redeemed within
a period of time not longer than thirty years from the
date of their issue.

SeEc. 5-a. The Board of Estimate and Apportion-
ment of the City of New York may, in its discretion,

set apart and appropriate, upon such conditions as it

may deem expedient, for the extension and develop-
ment of the work and objects of the said New York
Botanical Garden, the whole or any part of that
portion of Bronx Park in the city of New York situated
between the southern boundary of the land in Bronx
park heretofore appropriated for the use of the said
New York Botanical Garden by the Board of Com-
missioners of the Department of Public Parks, and the
northern side of Pelham Avenue; the land so to be
appropriated to be described more particularly in

Construction
of Buildings

Power of the
City to
appropriate
additional
land

Restrictions
in use of the
grounds

Grounds open
and free daily

Election of
Officers

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the Board of Estimate and Apportionment hereby
authorized. (Chapter 473, Laws of 1914.)

Sec. 6. The grounds set apart, as above provided,
shall be used for no other purposes than authorized
by this act, and no intoxicating liquors shall be sold or
allowed thereon. For police purposes and for the
maintenance of proper roads and walks, the said
grounds shall remain subject at all times to the control
of the said Board of Commissioners of the Department
of Parks; but otherwise, after the suitable laying out

‘of the same and the construction of proper roads and

walks therein by the Department of Parks, the said
grounds and buildings shall be under the management
and control of the said corporation. The said grounds
shall be open and free to the public daily, including
Sundays, subject to such restrictions only as to hours
as the proper care, culture and preservation of the
said garden may require; and its educational and
scientific privileges shall be open to all alike, male and
female, upon such necessary regulations, terms and
conditions as shall be prescribed by the managers of
those departments.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.

CONSTITUTION

ARTICLE I

The provisions of the act of incorporation approved
April 28, 1891, as amended by Chapter 103 of the
laws of 1894, approved March 7, 1894, are, in pursuance
of Section 3 of said act, adopted and form a part of
this Constitution.

ARTICLE II

A President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and a
Treasurer shall be elected yearly by the Board of
Managers from their number in the manner provided

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by section 4 of the act of incorporation; and the persons
so elected shall respectively be the President, Vice-
Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of
Managers and of the corporation. Vacancies in either
of said offices may be filled by the Board of Managers
until the next annual election.

ARTICLE III

The Scientific Directors and the Board of Managers
may respectively appoint such other persons and such
committees to aid in the performance of the duties
and business of their respective departments as they
shall deem best.

ARTICLE IV

The Scientific Directors and the Board of Managers
are each authorized to adopt such by-laws, rules and
regulations in their respective departments as shall be
approved by them respectively, and also to change or
amend the same from time to time; and the same
when so adopted by them, shall be deemed the by-laws,
rules and regulations of the corporation. i

ARTICLE V

Associate members may be admitted, suspended or
expelled in the manner provided for by the rules
adopted by the Board of Managers.

ARTICLE VI

Benefactors, Patrons, Fellows-for-Life, Fellowship
Members, Sustaining Members, Life Members and
Annual Members may be created by the Board of
Managers and admitted upon the payment of such
sums as shall be approved and established by the
Board.

ARTICLE VII

Amendments to this Constitution not incompatible

with the act of incorporation may be made by a vote of

Appointment
of committees

Adoption of
By-Laws,
Rules and
Regulations

Associate
Members

Patrons, Life
Members,
Annual
Members

Amendments —
to Constitution

Annual
Meeting

of the
Corporation

President and
Vice-president

Meeting of the
Board of
Managers

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four-fifths of the members present at an

meeting of the incorporators, or at any special meeting
called for the purpose by the Secretary, upon the
direction of the President, on ten days’ prior notice by
mail of such meeting and of the proposed amendments.

BY-LAWS

I

The annual meeting for the election of managers
and of additional members of the corporation shall
be held in the City of New York on the second Monday
in January. A notice of such meeting shall be mailed
by the Secretary to each member of the corporation
at least ten days previous. The number of elective
managers may be increased, and vacancies in un-
expired terms may be filled, by vote of the corporation
at any annual meeting, and also at any special meeting
called upon the recommendation of the Board of
Managers, upon like notice, and with notice of the
proposed increase.

II

At all meetings of the corporation and of the Board
of Managers, the President shall preside; or, in his
absence, one of the Vice-Presidents. The President,
or either Vice-President, is authorized to approve
bills of the Garden against city maintenance appro-
priations.

Ill

The managers shall hold an annual meeting on the
second Monday in January, following the annual
meeting of the corporation. Other regular meetings
of the managers shall be held on the third Thursdays
of April, June and November. Special meetings may

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be held by direction of the President, or, in his absence,
by the direction of either Vice-President. ,

IV

_ Five managers shall constitute a quorum at any
meeting of the Board of Managers, providing that
not more than two are Scientific Directors.

V

Committees of the Board of Managers, to be ap-
pointed by the Board at each annual meeting, shall
include:

An Executive Committee,

A Finance Committee,

A Membership Committee,

A Committee on Endowment.

Special committees may be appointed at any
meeting, and may be composed of managers, of
members of the corporation, or of both.

VI

The Executive Committee shall consider all matters
referred to it at meetings of the Board of Managers
-or of the Corporation and report at subsequent meet-
ings, and shall annually nominate managers, officers
and additional members of the corporation. It shall
consist of seven members, including the President,
Treasurer and Secretary. The Committee shall an-
nually elect a chairman.

VII

The Finance Committee shall advise the Treasurer
concerning investmentsand reinvestmentsof permanent
funds, and shall have charge of such real estate as

Quorum of the
Board of
Managers

Committees

Executive
Committee

Finance
Committee

Membership
Committee

Endowment
Committee

Treasurer

Secretary

Quorum of
Scientific
Directors

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may become the property of the Corporation. It shall
consist of three members, including the Treasurer.

Vill

The Membership Committee shall consist of three
members and shall issue invitations for Annual
Members, Sustaining Members, Fellowship Members,
Fellows for Life, Patrons and Benefactors.

Ix

The object of the Committee on Endowment is to
increase permanent funds; it shall consist of the
President, Treasurer, Secretary and two other members
of the Board of Managers.

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The Treasurer shall collect, receive and disburse the
funds of the Corporation as directed by the Board of
Managers. He shall invest and reinvest all permanent
funds as advised by the Finance Committee. He
shall report to the managers at all stated meetings.

XI

The Secretary shall give notice of all meetings of the
corporation, of the Board of Managers and of the
Executive Committee, and shall take and preserve
the minutes thereof; he shall have the custody of the
seal, and shall perform such other duties as may be
directed by the corporation, the Board of Managers,
or the Executive Committee.

XII

A majority of the Scientific Directors shall constitute
a quorum at any meeting.

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XIII

The Scientific Directors shall elect a Chairman and
Secretary, who shall hold office until their successors
are elected, and perform the duties which usually
pertain to these offices.

XIV

Regular meetings of the Scientific Directors shall be
held on the second Saturdays of April, June, October
and December, and special meetings may be held
pursuant to call by the Chairman.

SPV

The Women’s Auxiliary shall consist of at least
twelve members. Additional members,may be elected
at any meeting of the managers after nomination
by the Auxiliary. This committee shall aid the man-
agers in conducting receptions and other public func-
tions, in obtaining contributing members, and in such
other objects as may be referred to it by the Board of
Managers. Honorary members of the Women’s Aux-
iliary chosen from women who have rendered note-
worthy service to the Garden, may also be appointed
by the managers after nomination by the Auxiliary.

XVI

The election of managers and of additional members
of the corporation shall be by ballot. All other votes
at meetings may be taken viva voce, unless a ballot be
demanded by some member, whereupon the vote shall
be taken by ballot.

XVII

Amendments to the By-Laws may be made at any
meeting by a vote of a majority of the entire Board
of Managers and by the unanimous vote of a quorum.

Officers of
Scientific
Directors

Meetings of
Scientific
Directors

Women’s
Auxiliary

Elections to be
by ballot

Amendments
to By-Laws

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REGULATIONS FOR THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR-
IN-CHIEF

1. The Director-in-Chief is the Executive Officer of the Gar-
den, and is responsible to the Board of Managers, and to the
Scientific Directors, for the general management and control of
all its departments.

He shall promptly and efficiently carry out all their regulations
and directions, and be responsible for the proper maintenance
and good order of the buildings and grounds.

2. He may from time to time make recommendations for the
development and management of the Garden in all its depart-
ments, including the laying out of the grounds, the construction
of buildings and the conduct of the museums, the herbarium or
any of the departments of the Garden, accompanying the same
by his estimate of the probable cost therefor.

3. He shall recommend the employment of such persons as
shall be needed for the various departments of the Garden and
have power to remove all employees, except those upon a yearly
salary. All such salaried employees he shall have power to sus-
pend, and, on approval of the appropriate committee or board,
to discharge.

4. He shall make all necessary purchases of tools, implements
and supplies for the Garden as authorized, and shall be respon-
sible for the proper inventory, care, and use of the same.

5. He shall examine, correct and certify all bills incurred under
his management, and shall keep, in books provided for that pur-
pose, an accurate account of his expenditure of all appropriations
made for Garden purposes, which books, together with proper
vouchers, shall at all times be open to inspection by members of
the Board.

6. He shall keep a copy of his official correspondence.

7. He shall use diligent efforts to build up the Garden Her-
barium, the Library and the Museum, and the collections of
living plants and trees, by correspondence, by exchanges of
duplicates not needed, and by purchases, so far as means there-
for are placed at his disposal.

8. He shall report to the Board of Managers, the Scientific
Directors, or special committees, in such manner and at such
times as they may direct.

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9g. He shall make no expenditures and incur no liabilities,
except under appropriations made by the -Board.

10. He shall devote his whole time and energies to the pro-
motion of the Garden interests, and shall not engage in any
outside work except with the anproye! of the Board or the
Executive Committee.

PROVISIONS FOR CONTRIBUTING MEMBERSHIP.

1. Benefactors——The contribution of $25,000.00 or more to
the funds of the Garden by gift or by bequest entitles the con-
tributor to be a benefactor of the Garden.

2. Patrons.—The contribution of $5,000.00 or more to the
funds of the Garden by gift or by bequest shall entitle the con-
tributor to be a patron of the Garden.

3. Fellows for Life-——The contribution of $1,000.00 or more to
the funds of the Garden at any one time shall entitle the con-
tributor to be a fellow for life of the Garden.

4. Fellowship Members.—Fellowship members pay $100.00 or
more annually and become fellows for life when their payments
aggregate $1,000.00.

5. Sustaining Members.—Sustaining members pay from $25.00
to $100.00 annually and become fellows for life when their
payments aggregate $1,000.00.

6. Annual Members—Annual members pay an annual fee of
$10.00. All members are entitled to the following privileges:

1. Tickets to all lectures given under the auspices of the
Board of Managers.

2. Invitations to all exhibitions given under the auspices of
the Board of Managers.

3. A copy of all handbooks published by the Garden.

4. A copy of all annual reports and Bulletins.

5. A copy of the monthly Journal.

7. Life Members—Annual Members may become Life Mem-
bers by the payment of a fee of $250.00.

Form of Bequest—I hereby bequeath to The New York
Botanical Garden incorporated under the Laws of New York,
Chapter 285) olor enersuml Okan yori oe

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PROVISIONS OF THE CHARTER OF THE CifyY 7am
NEW YORK FOR MAINTENANCE

$613. It shall be the duty of the commissioner for the boroughs
of Manhattan and Richmond to maintain the meteorological
and astronomical observatory, the Museum of Natural History,
the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, the Aquarium
in Battery place, and such other buildings as now are or may
hereafter be erected in such parks or in any other park, square or
public place under his jurisdiction by authority of the board of
aldermen. It shall be the duty of the commissioner for the
boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens to maintain the Brooklyn
Institute of Arts and Sciences, and such other buildings as now
are or may hereafter be erected in any park, square or public
place under his jurisdiction by authority of the board of aldermen.
It shall be the duty of the commissioner for the borough of
The Bronx to maintain the New York Botanical Garden and the
buildings appurtenant thereto, and such other institutions or
buildings as may be established or erected in any park, square
or public place in his jurisdiction by authority of the board of
aldermen. It shall be the duty of the several commissioners to
provide the necessary instruments, furniture and equipments for
the several buildings and institutions within their respective
jurisdictions, and, with the authority of the board of aldermen,
to develop and improve the same, and to erect additional build-
ings; but the maintenance of all such buildings and institutions
shall be subject to the provisions of the acts incorporating said
institutions, or either of them, and the acts amendatory thereof,
and to the powers of said corporations thereunder, and of the
boards by such acts created or provided for; and shall also be
subject to and in conformity with such contracts and agreements
as have heretofore been made with such institutions respectively,
and are in force and effect when this act takes effect, or as may
be hereafter made by the authority of the board of aldermen,
and no moneys shall be expended for such purposes unless an
appropriation therefor has been made by the board of estimate
and apportionment and the board of aldermen. Out of the
moneys annually appropriated for the maintenance of parks each

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commissioner may apply such sum as shall be fixed by the
board of estimate and apportionment for the keeping, preserva-
tion and exhibition of the collections placed or contained in
buildings or institutions now situated or hereafter erected in the
parks, squares or public places under the jurisdiction of such
co » missioner.

§625. The commissioner for the borough of The Bronx is
hereby authorized and directed to carry out the existing con-
trac made by and between the department of parks of the
corporation heretofore known as the mayor, aldermen and com-
monalty of the city of New York and the board of managers of
the corporation known as the New York Botanical Garden pur-
suant to the provisions of chapter two hundred and eighty-five
of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled ‘‘An
act to provide for the establishment of a botanic garden and
museum and arboretum in Bronx park in The City of New York
and to incorporate the New York Botanical Garden for carrying
on the same,’’ as amended by chapter one hundred and three of
the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, which contract
provides for the allotting and setting apart for the uses of said
garden of two hundred and fifty acres of land or less in the
northern part of Bronx Park as shown upon a certain map
thereof numbered five hundred and sixty-eight, and signed by
Messrs. Vaux and Parsons, and filed with the former department
of public parks of the corporation known as the mayor, aldermen
and commonalty of the city of New York.

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Members of the Corporation

i
Fritz Achelis,
Edward D. Adams,
Charles B. Alexander,
John D. Archbold,
Vincent Astor,
John W. Auchincloss,
George F. Baker,
Stephen Baker,
Edmund L. Baylies,
Eugene P. Bicknell,
C. K. G. Billings,
George Blumenthal,
Temple Bowdoin,
Prof. N. U. Britton,
Prof. Edw. S. Burgess,
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B. B. Thayer,

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