Appropriating New York State Arsenal building for museum and gallery of art. Power to alter the building. Gallery to be accessible to the public. Chap. 46. AN ACT to Improve the Central Park in the City of New York. Passed March 25, 1862; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Commissioners of the Central Park, in the City of New York, are hereby authorized to set apart and appropriate to the New York Historical Society, the building within said Park heretofore known as the New York State Arsenal, together with such grounds adjoining the same as the said Commissioners may determine to be necessary and proper for the purpose of establishing and maintaining therein by the said society a museum of antiquities and science, and a gallery of art. SEC. 2. The expense of arranging and fitting up of the said arsenal building for the use and purpose aforesaid shall be borne by the said New York Historical Society, and the said society shall have the right, at its own expense, to add to, enlarge, or if need be, to take down the present building, and erect another on the grounds so set apart and appropriated; the plan of such addition, or new building, having been first submitted to, and approved by, the Commissioners of the said Park. SEC. 3. The museum and gallery contemplated in the first 'section of this act, when so established, shall be accessible to the public under proper regulations, to be adopted by the said society, approved by the said Commissioners, and not inconsistent with the proper administration and management of the said Park. appropria SEC. 4. The evidence of setting apart and appropriation of the Evidence of said arsenal building and grounds within the said Park, to the tion. said New York Historical Society, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be a resolution to that effect, adopted by the Board of said Commissioners, duly acknowledged by its President, and recorded in the office of the Register of the City and County of New York. SEC. 5. If the said New York Historical Society shall so establish their said museum of antiquities and science, and gallery of art, then, so long as they shall continue there to maintain the same, they shall occupy and enjoy the said building and grounds thus set apart and appropriated to them for the purpose aforesaid, free from any rent, assessment or charge whatever therefor, and if the said society shall at any time hereafter, for any cause, discontinue their said museum of antiquities and science, and gallery of art, in the said arsenal building, or on the said grounds, then the said arsenal building, and any building whatever erected under the provisions of this act, and the said grounds before set apart and appropriated, shall revert to the said Central Park for the general purposes thereof; but the said society shall in such case be permitted to remove therefrom the said museum of antiquities and science, and gallery of art, and all its other property. SEC. 6. The Legislature may at any time alter, repeal, or amend this act. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately. Buildings to revert to the Central Park Authority given to Commissioners of Central Park to obtain money on faith of certain stock. Comptroller of city to issue stock. From Chap. 227, Laws State of New York, passed April 24, 1863 (City Tax Levy). SEC. 4. In case the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park in the City of New York shall at any time require money for immediate use before said Board can realize the proceeds of such portion of the public fund or stock authorized by chapter eighty-five, of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, as shall then remain unissued, the said Board may obtain advances of money on the faith of said stock in anticipation of the issue thereof at not exceeding six per cent. interest, and to an amount not greater than fifty per centum of the amount of the said stock then unissued, at its par value. The Comptroller of the City of New York shall issue the portion of said fund or stock remaining unissued at not less than its par value, at such times and in such amounts as shall be required by said Board, and shall deposit the moneys raised thereon in the manner specified in section three of said chapter, and the person or corporation making such advances shall be entitled to be re-imbursed by said Board out of such moneys, the amount of said advances. Chap. 275. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to alter the Map or Plan of the City of New York," passed April fifteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Passed April 21, 1864; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The second section of the act entitled an "Act to alter the Map or Plan of the City of New York," passed April fifteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 2. The said part of the said avenue, hereby enlarged to the width of one hundred and fifty feet, is hereby declared to be one of the streets or avenues of the City of New York, in like manner and with the like effect as if the same had been so laid out by the Commissioners appointed in and by the act entitled "An act relative to the improvements touching the laying out streets and roads in the City of New York, passed April third, eighteen hundred and seven, and the said part of the said avenue, in its enlarged width, shall be widened, opened (except where already opened), laid out, graded, regulated, sewered, paved, and improved by and under the direction of the Commissioners of the Central Park; and all acts and parts of acts now in force, in relation to the widening, opening, laying out, grading, regulating, sewering, paving, and improving streets and avenues in the said city, shall apply to the said part of the said avenue in its enlarged width, except that the Commissioners of the Central Park are hereby authorized for and in the name of the Mayor, duties of Commission ers. Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, and of the several departments thereof, to perform the work to be done Powers and under the provisions of this act; and the said Commissioners shall possess all the powers and perform all the duties in relation to widening, opening, laying out, grading, regulating, sewering, paving and improving the said part of the said avenue in its enlarged width, and each and every part of the said work, which the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York, and the several departments thereof, now possess and perform in relation to similar work in, to, and upon the other streets Commission- and avenues in the said city. The said Commissioners of the ers to apply to Supreme Court for opening. Central Park are hereby authorized and directed to apply, by petition, to the Supreme Court, at any Special Term thereof, held in the First Judicial District for the appointment of Commissioners for the opening of the said Seventh avenue, from the southerly side of One Hundred and Thirty-third street, to the Harlem river, and for the widening of the said avenue, as provided in and by this act; and it shall be the duty of the Corporation Counsel to perform and discharge all the legal services required in the proceedings to carry out the provisions of this act, without any additional compensation beyond the salary and Assessments, allowance now provided by law; and all assessments, awards, and expenses, for or on account of the said work, or any part thereof, shall be ascertained, assessed, laid, imposed, collected, and paid, in the manner, and by and to the parties and officers now provided or designated by law; and the said part of the said avenue, in its enlarged width, shall henceforth be under the care, management, and control of the Commissioners of the Central Park, in the same manner and to the same extent that the Central Park is or may hereafter be under their care, management, and control. &c. Commission ers of Central Park to control and manage, &c. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |