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aforesaid, as is hereinafter particularly set forth and described which said condition is as follows:

The premises last hereinabove described are granted and conveyed upon condition that the same shall be let and demised from time to time to such association, society or corporation as shall agree to maintain upon such premises a free circulating library and reading rooms, the net rents and incomes derived from such letting to be applied by said party of the second part towards the general objects for which it was incorporated and established, and

Whereas, the New York Free Circulating Library, a corporation now existing in the City of New York, and created under the laws of the State of New York, is a society whose object is in strict accordance with the intention of the aforesaid condition,

Now therefore in consideration of these presents and of the covenants and agreements herein made by the parties to these presents each with the other, the said party hereto of the first part hereby covenants and agrees that the said party hereto of the second part shall have the sole and exclusive use and occupation of the following portion of the said premises (so as aforesaid assigned, transferred and conveyed to the said party hereto of the first part by Anna Ottendorfer and Oswald Ottendorfer) to-wit:

All that certain other lot of ground, situate in said City of New York, and bounded and described as follows:

Beginning at a point on the Westerly side or line of Second Avenue distant forty eight feet Northerly from the Northwesterly corner of Second Avenue and Eighth Street, and from thence running Westerly on a line parallel with Eighth Street seventy two feet six inches; thence running Northerly on a line parallel with Second Avenue twenty feet; thence running Easterly on a line parallel with Eighth Street seventy two feet and six inches to the Westerly side or line of Second Avenue; and thence running Southerly along the Westerly side or line of Second Avenue twenty feet to the point or place of beginning.

So long as the said party hereto of the second part shall be engaged in carrying out the objects for which it is incorporated, to wit:-furnishing free reading to the people of the City of New York, said described premises to be used for a circulating library and reading room and the purposes necessary thereto and for no other purpose.

And the said party hereto of the second part hereby agrees to pay to said party hereto of the first part on the first day of May in each and every year of such use and occupation the sum of One Dollar, and also to pay its proportionate share of all taxes, assessments or other charges which may be made, assessed or levied upon all the premises (so as aforesaid transferred, assigned and conveyed to said party hereto of the first part by Anna Ottendorfer and Oswald Ottendorfer) by the City, County or State of New York, or the United States of America, such proportionate share to be determined by the ratio which the superficial area of the building so used and occupied by said party hereto of the second part bears to the superficial area of the whole of the buildings located on said premises; and in case any dispute or difference of opinion may arise as to the amount of said proportionate share, the parties hereto mutually covenant and agree that such dispute or difference of opinion shall be finally and conclusively settled by the arbitration of two arbiters one chosen by each of the parties hereto and in case such two arbiters can not agree one more arbiter shall be chosen by said two arbiters whose decision shall in such case be final and conclusive.

And the said party hereto of the second part hereby covenants and agrees to keep all of the premises so in its use and occupation under this agreement at all times in good and proper repair and to pay all necessary charges therefor and all expenses of incorporation therein, and to defray its proportionate share of all the expenses of every kind in maintaining all of said. premises, which shall be a joint expense, including the supplying the same with light heat and water, unless such expenses are arranged so as to be properly a separate charge; such proportionate share to be determined in the same manner as herein

above provided for in case of taxes and assessments and other municipal State or United States charges.

And it is mutually agreed by and between the parties to these presents that should it become expedient or proper at any time in the future for the said party hereto of the first part to assign, transfer or convey the whole or any part of the premises (so as aforesaid conveyed to it by Anna Ottendorfer and Oswald Ottendorfer) or should they be by any power evicted therefrom, the said party hereto of the second part, may terminate this agreement by an instrument duly executed in writing and under

seal.

In Witness Whereof, the parties hereto by their respective officers have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

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SE BY THE GERMAN HOSPITAL AND DISPEN-
SARY OF AN ADDITION TO THE PREMISES
NO. 135 SECOND AVENUE.

DATED 12 JULY, 1897.

s Agreement, made this 12th day of July, 1897, by and en THE GERMAN HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY, a corporareated by and existing under the laws of the State of New party of the first part, and THE NEW YORK FREE CIRCUG LIBRARY, a corporation created by and existing under ws of the State of New York, party of the second part,

nesseth, that whereas the said party hereto of the first part a certain agreement, bearing date May 16th, 1884, lease party of the second part hereto, "so long as the said y of the second part hereto shall be engaged in carrying the objects for which it is incorporated, to wit, furnishing reading to the people of the City of New York, said debed premises to be used for a circulating library and readrooms and the purposes necessary thereto and for no r purpose",

that certain lot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings mprovements thereon erected, situate in the City of New and bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a on the westerly side or line of Second Avenue distant

forty-eight (48) feet northerly from the northwesterly corn Second Avenue and Eighth Street and from thence run westerly on a line parallel with Eighth Street seventy-two feet Six (6) inches, thence running northerly on a line par with Second Avenue twenty (20) feet, thence running eas on a line parallel with Eighth Street seventy two (72) fee (6) inches to the westerly side or line of Second Avenue, thence running southerly along the westerly side or lin Second Avenue twenty (20) feet to the point or place of be ning; and

Whereas since the date of said agreement first herein tioned there has been erected at the rear of the premises in agreement and in this instrument last hereinabove described addition to the building existing at the date of the first n tioned agreement, and it is the intention of the parties to agreement that the said parties hereto of the second part sh hold and occupy premises in the rear of the premises in the agreement described being twenty (20) feet in width (the width of said lot) and forty-seven (47) feet six (6) inche depth on each side with the buildings thereon erected, or in course of erection under the same terms and agreemen those provided for in said agreement of May 16, 1884,

Now therefore in consideration of these presents and of sum of One Dollar ($1.) in hand paid by the said party he of the second part to the said party hereto of the first part, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said party he of the first part doth hereby covenant and agree that the party hereto of the second part shall have the sole and exclu use and occupation of the said lot and buildings in the rea the premises in the said agreement of May 16, 1884, described being the full width of said lot, viz., twenty (20) feet in fr and rear, and forty-seven (47) feet six (6) inches in depth each side, under the same terms and conditions as were vided by said agreement of May 16, 1884.

And the said party hereto of the second part doth her covenant and agree that it will fully carry out and perform

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