admitted to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law in all the courts of this state. No diploma shall be sufficient for such admission which is given for any period of attendance upon said law school for a less term than eighteen months, but this period of eighteen months shall not apply to the members of the present senior class in said law school who may be admitted to practice as aforesaid upon the examination and recommendation of said committee, and upon the evidence of the diploma of the college. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. NOTE.-Laws of 1877, Chapter 417, Section 1, sub-division 34, repeals so much of the foregoing act as requires the graduates therein specified to be admitted to practice upon the production of their diplomas; but Section 3, subdivision 17 of the same act provides that such repeal shall not affect the right of a person who is a student to be admitted at any time within one year after the passage of the repealing act. The period of exemption was further extended by the Laws of 1879, Chap. 35; Chap. 257; and Chap. 349; Laws of 1880, Chap. 58; and Laws of 1881, Chap. 25. AN ACT IN RELATION TO COLUMBIA COLLEGE, IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: PASSED MARCH 8, 1872. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The trustees of Columbia College, in the City of New York, are hereby authorized, from time to time, to purchase and take and hold in fee simple, any lands situate in the city of New York, for a new site or sites for the said college or for any of the schools or necessary buildings of the same, and to sell and convey any lands now held by said college, but no lands owned by said college shall be exempt from taxation, except such as are or may be in actual use as a site or sites for said college. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. AN ACT IN RELATION TO COLUMBIA COLLEGE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. The People of the State of New PASSED MARCH 28, 1884. York, represented in Senate and Section 1. The Trustees of Columbia College in the City of New York are hereby authorized and empowered to take by purchase, gift, grant, devise or any other manner, and to hold any real estate which, when acquired, shall be used for, or the income thereof shall be applied to, the proper conduct and support of the several departments of education heretofore established or hereafter to be established by such Trustees; and so much of the proviso in the first section of the act entitled "An Act relative to Columbia College in the City of New York," passed March 24, 1810, as limits the clear yearly value of the real estate to be acquired by said Trustees to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, is hereby repealed; provided, however, that no lands owned by said college shall be exempt from taxation, except such as are or may be in actual use as a site or sites for said college; and provided further, that all devises and bequests to said Trustees shall be subject to the provisions of chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, entitled "An act relating to wills." And provided further that this act shall not be construed so as to affect any devise made by any testator who shall have died before its passage, nor the right of any heir at law or next of kin of such testator. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 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. PASSED APRIL 28, 1891. LAWS OF 1891, CHAPTER 285. 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. Newbury, Charles A. Dana, Addison Brown, Parke Godwin, Henry C. Potter, Charles Butler, Hugh J. Grant, Edward Cooper, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Nathaniel L. Britton, Morris K. Jessup, 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, 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. Olcutt, 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 advancement 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 corporate 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 bylaws; make rules and regulations for the transaction of its business, the admission, suspension and expulsion of the associate members of said corporation, 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 constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, and shall be subject to the provisions of title three, of chapter eighteen, 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 scientific directors; they shall have the management and control of the scientific and educational departments of said corporation and the appointment of the directorin-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, shall be elected annually, pursuant to the bylaws 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 incorporators; but a less number may adjourn. (As amended by Laws 1894, Chapter 103.) 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 commissioners 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 within the said grounds so allotted, 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 |