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PASSED AT THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTIETH REGULAR SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, BEGUN THE SECOND DAY OF JANUARY, 1907, AND ENDING THE TWENTY-SIXTH DAY OF JUNE, 1907, AT THE CITY OF ALBANY, AND INCLUDING EXTRAORDINARY SESSION, BEGUN JULY EIGHTH, 1907, AND ENDING JULY TWENTY-SIXTH, 1907.

Chap. 1.

AN ACT to accept a deed of gift from William Pryor Letchworth, bachelor, to the people of the state of New York, of laud in the town of Genesee Falls, Wyoming county, and the town of Portage, Livingston county, this statą.

Became a law, January 24, 1907, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The people of the state of New York hereby accept title to the lands mentioned in the deed of gift or conveyance now in possession of the governor of this state, which deed was executed the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and six, by William Pryor Letchworth, bachelor, to the people of the state of New York, conveying to them certain lands situate in the town of Genesee Falls, Wyoming county, and the town of Portage, Livingston county, in this state, which lands are more fully identified and described in said deed, being about one thousand acres of land, upon which the grantor now resides. Title to such lands is accepted upon the terms and conditions stated in said deed, namely, that the land therein conveyed shall be forever dedicated to the purpose of a public park or reservation, subject only to the life use and tenancy of said William Pryor Letchworth, who shall have the right to make changes and improvements thereon. The action of the Wyoming Benevolent Institute, a corporation organized by chapter four hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, in conveying to William Pryor Letchworth all its lands in the town

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