Committee Number 7. [Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Home Trade and Commerce, Labor CHARLES R. MARVIN, ANSON PHELPS STOKES, Home Productions and Mining.] GEORGE BLISS. Committee Number 8. ARCHIBALD BAXTER, [Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Domestic Manufactures. American Machinery and Inventions, as connected with Commerce.] Trustees of the Institution for the Savings of Merchants' Clerks. Elected Sept. 19, 1871: Elected May 23, 1870: Term will expire March 12, 1874. Term will expire Sept. 19, 1873. Term will expire May 23, 1872. GEORGE W. BLUNT. Trustees of the Nautical School for the Harbor of New-York. ELLWOOD WALTER, GEORGE W. BLUNT, GEORGE D. MORGAN. Board of Commissioners for Licensing Sailors' Boarding Houses or Hotels In the Cities of New-York and Brooklyn. IN BEHALF OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. CHARLES C. DUNCAN. Delegates to the National Board of Trade, elected November 1, 1871. GEORGE OPDYKE, WILLIAM E. DODGE, JR., JAMES S. T. STRANAHAN, Special Committee on a New Building for the Chamber of Commerce. A. A. LOW, CHAIRMAN. CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, WITH SUBSEQUENT AMENDMENTS. GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth-To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Recites that the Chamber had Governor Colden. the 28th Febru WHEREAS, a great number of merchants in our City of New-York, in America, have, by voluntary agreement, petitioned Lieut. associated themselves for the laudable purposes of promoting the trade and commerce of our said province; and whereas, JOHN CRUGER, Esq., the present President of the said Society, by his humble petition presented in behalf of the said Society, to our trusty and well-beloved CADWALLADER COLDEN, Esq., our Lieutenant-Governor and Commander-in-Chief of our said province of NewYork, and the territories depending thereon in America, and read in our Council for our said province, on the twenty-eight day of February, last past, hath represented ary. to our said Lieutenant-Governor, that the said Society (sensible that numberless inestimable benefits have accrued to mankind from commerce; that they are, in proportion to their greater or lesser application to it, more or less opulent and potent in all countries; and that the enlargement of trade will vastly increase the value of real estates, as well as the general opulence of our said colony) have associated together for some time past, in orde to carry into execution among themselves, and by theirrexample to promote in others, such measures as were beneficial to those salutary purposes; and that the said Society having, with great pleasure and satisfaction, experienced the good effects which the few regulations already adopted had produced, were very desirous of rendering them more extensively useful and permanent, them, and more adequate to the purposes of so benevolent an institution; and therefore the petitioner, in behalf of the said Society, most humbly prayed our said Lieutenantto incorporate Governor to incorporate them a body politic, and to invest them with such powers and authorities as might be thought most conducive to answer and promote the commercial and, consequently, the landed interests of our said growing colony; which petition being read as aforesaid, was then and there referred to a Committee of our said Council, and afterwards, on the same day, our said Council, in pursuance of the report of the said Committee, did humbly advise and consent, that our said Lieutenant-Governor, by our letters patent, should constitute and appoint the petitioner, and the present memby the name of bers of the said Society, a body corporate and politic, by the "Corporation the name of "THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF of Commerce in COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN AMERICA," the City of NewYork, in Ameri- agreeable to the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, we being willing to further the laudable designs of our said loving subjects, and to give stability to an institution from whence great advantages may arise, as well to our kingdom of Great Britain as to our said province, of the Chamber ca.' KNOW YE, That of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, we have willed, ordained, given, granted, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do will, ordain, give, grant, constitute, and appoint, that the present members, of the said Society, associated for the purpose aforesaid, that is to say, JOHN CRUGER, ELIAS DESBROSses, James JAUNCEY, JACOB WALTON, ROBERT MURRAY, HUGH WALLACE, GEORGE FOLLIOT, WM. WALTON, JOHN ALSOP, HENRY WHITE, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, SAMUEL VERPLANCK, THEOPHYLACT BACHE, THOMAS WHITE, MILES SHERBROOK, WALTER FRANKLIN, ROBERT ROSS WADDELL, ACHESON THOMPSON, LAWRENCE KORTWRIGHT, THOMAS RANDALL, WILLIAM M'ADAM, ISAAC LOW, ANTHONY VAN DAM, ROBERT WATTS, JOHN HARRIS CRUGER, Gerard WALTON, ISAAC SEARS, JACOBUS VAN ZANDT, CHARLES M'EVERS, JOHN MOORE, LEWIS PINTARD, LEVINUS CLARKSON, NICHOLAS GOUVERNEUR, RICHARD YATES, THOMAS MARSTON, PETER HASSENCLIVER, ALEXANDER WALlace, GABRIEL H. LUDLOW, THOMAS BUCHANNAN, WM. NEILSON, SAMPSON SIMPSON, PETER KETTLETAS, GERARD W. BEEKMAN, JACOB WATSON, RICHARD SHARPE, PETER REMSEN, HENRY REMSEN, junior, WILLIAM SETON, EDW. LAIGHT, JOHN READE, ROBERT ALEXANDER, THOMAS W. MOORE, ABRAHAM LYNSON, ISAAC ROOSEVELT, NICHOLAS HOFFMAN, HAMILTON YOUNG, THOMAS WALTON, JOHN THURMAN, JOHN WEATHERHEAD, GARRIT RAPElye, GeRARD DUYCKINCK, WILLIAM STEPPLE, WILLIAM IMLAY |