RECAPITULATION.

Imports of Foreign Merchandise.-Fiscal Year.-The value of imports of foreign merchandise into the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1893, exclusive of coin and bullion, amounted to $866,400,922, being an increase of $38,998,460 over the previous year. Of the total imports, $444,544,211 were admitted free, being $13,455,447 less than 1892.

New-York's share was $548,558,593, against $536,538,112 in 1892, being an increase of $12,020,481. The amount of free goods admitted at this port was $269,931,030, against $299,039,148 the previous year, being a decrease of $29,108,118.

Imports of Foreign Merchandise.-Calendar Year.The imports of foreign merchandise into the United States for the year ending December 31st, 1893, exclusive of coin and bullion, amounted to $776,248,270. The total for 1892 was $876,186,671, a decrease of $99,938,401.

At the Port of New-York the value of foreign merchandise imported was $528,489,953, against $572,300,279 in 1892, a decrease of $43,810,326.

Exports of Domestic Productions and Foreign Merchandise.-Fiscal Year.-The exports of domestic productions, exclusive of coin and bullion, from the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1893, amounted to $831,030,785, to which may be added the exports of foreign merchandise of the value of $16,634,409, making a total of $847,665,194, against $1,030,278,148 the previous year, being a decrease of $182,612,954.

New-York's proportion of this amount for 1893 was, in domestic productions, $339,040,667, and foreign merchandise $8,355,050, making a total of $347,395,717, against $413,952,783 in 1892, being a decrease of $66,557,066.

Exports of Domestic Productions and Foreign Merchandise.-Calendar Year.-The exports of domestic productions from the United States during the year ending

December 31st, 1893, exclusive of coin and bullion, amounted to $854,737,771, and of foreign merchandise, amounting to $21,368,493, a total of $876,106,264. Total for 1892, $938,420,411, a decrease of $62,314,147. For 1893 New-York exported of domestic productions $348,097,228, and of foreign merchandise $9,900,460, total, $357,997,688. Total in 1892, $377,723,974, a reduction of $19,726,286.

TRADE SUMMARY.

Fiscal Year. The imports, exports and re-exports of the United States, exclusive of coin and bullion, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, amounted to $1,714,066,116, against $1,857,680,610 in 1892, being a decrease of $143,614,494.

New-York's share was $895,954,310, and for 1892 $950,490,895, a decrease of $54,536,585.

Calendar Year.-The imports, exports and re-exports of the United States, exclusive of coin and bullion, for the year ending December 31st, 1893, amounted to $1,652,354,534, and in 1892 $1,814,607,082, showing a decrease of $162,252,548.

Total for New-York, $886,487,641, and for 1892 $950,024,253, a decrease of $63,536,612.

BALANCE OF TRADE.

Fiscal Year.-The balance of trade for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, was against the United States, as the following will show:

Imports, merchandise only,

Exports and Re-Exports, merchandise only,

Against the United States, June 30th, 1893,

$866,400,922

847,665,194

$18,735,728

Calendar Year.-The balance of trade during the year ending December 31st, 1893, was again in favor of the United States to the extent of quite $100,000,000, as follows:

Exports and Re-Exports, merchandise only, $876,106,264 Imports, merchandise only, .

776,248,270

In favor of the United States, Dec. 31, 1893,

$99,857,994

FINANCE.

The exports and re-exports of gold from the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, were the largest in the history of the country, amounting to $108,680,844. Exports and re-exports of silver same time, $40,737,319. Total, $149,418,163.

Gold and Silver of Domestic Production.-The production of the precious metals in the United States during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, as reported by the Director of the Mint, was as follows:

CLEARING HOUSE EXCHANGES.

The Clearing House Exchanges for the year 1893 were $32,901,189,408, being $5,649,367,056 less than the previous year, and the lowest in amount since 1888. The decrease in certifications, rendered unnecessary through the opera

tions of the New-York Stock Exchange Clearing House and the general stagnation of business as reflected in the monthly reports of the Clearing Houses throughout the United States since July 1st, are the prime causes of this reduction.

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME.

The Secretary desires to acknowledge his obligations to the Hon. WORTHINGTON C. FORD, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington, for advance statements of Imports, Exports and Re-Exports of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893; to Mr. CHARLES MCK. LOESER, for a Report on the Wine and Spirit Trade; to Mr. ISAAC H. BAILEY, for Reports on Leather, Hide, and Boot and Shoe Trades; to Messrs. MCKESSON & ROBBINS, for a Report on the Drug Trade; to Mr. ABRAHAM MILLS, for a Report on the Wool Trade; to Messrs. WILLIAM B. DANA & Co., for a Report on the Cotton Crop; to the Editor of the Whalemen's Shipping List of New-Bedford, for a Report on the Whale Fishery, and to Mr. ALBERT H. STORER, for a Report on the Petroleum Trade.

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

NEW-YORK, May 28, 1894.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

FROM MAY, 1893, TO MAY, 1894.

125th Annual Meeting, Thursday, May 4, 1893.

THE one hundred and twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held this day, at half past twelve o'clock, P. M., at the Rooms of the Chamber, on Nassau-street, between Cedar and Liberty streets.

PRESENT.

ALEXANDER E. ORR, First Vice-President.
MORRIS K. JESUP, Second Vice-President.
SOLON HUMPHREYS, Treasurer.
GEORGE WILSON, Secretary.

And two hundred and five members.

On motion of WILLIAM H. LYON, the reading of the minutes of the last regular meeting, held April 6th, was dispensed with.

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES.

HENRY HENTZ, Chairman of the Executive Committee, reported the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted:

Resolved, That the Special Committee on Quarantine and the Special Committee on an Historical Painting of the Atlantic Cable Projectors be and they are hereby continued in office for the year ending May 3d, 1894.