OFFICERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

ELECTED FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY, 1874.

WILLIAM E. DODGE, President.

GEORGE OPDYKE, First Vice-President.

SOLON HUMPHREYS, Fourth Vice-Pres'ı. WILLIAM M. VERMILYE, Second Vice-Pres't. FRANCIS S. LATHROP, Treasurer. SAMUEL D. BABCOCK, Third Vice-Pres't. GEORGE WILSON, Secretary.

[Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Financial Interests of the Country, Currency, Coinage, Insurance, Postal and Telegraph affairs.]

[Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Foreign Commerce, Commercial and

Revenue Laws, Immigration and Fisheries.]

JONATHAN STURGES,
D. COLDEN MURRAY,
FREDERICK CHAUNCEY,
JOHN H. HALL,

D. WILLIS JAMES, CHAIRMAN.
BENJAMIN H. FIELD,
EDWARD S. JAFFRAY,
CHARLES H. MARSHALL,
NATH'L L. MCCREADY,

Committee Number 5.

ELLIOTT F SHEPARD,
JAMES W. ELWELL,
NATHAN CHANDLER,
DANIEL G. BACON.

[Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Shipping, Pilotage, Wharves and Docks, Rivers, Coasts, Harbors, Light-Houses, and the Training, Interests, Rights and Duties of Seamen.]

[Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Rail-Roads, Canals and Internal

SAMUEL SLOAN,

WILLIAM B. OGDEN,

CHARLES BUTLER,

Improvements.]

JOHN TAYLOR JOHNSTON, CHAIRMAN.

ALEXANDER M. WHITE,

Committee Number 7.

[Charged with the consideration of questions relating to Home Trade and Commerce, Labor, Home Productions and Mining.]

[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 1873:

Term will expire in 1876.
MOSES H. GRINNELL,
WILLIAM H. GUION,
GEORGE C. COLLINS.

Elected 1872:

Term will expire in 1875.
JOSEPH GAILLARD, JR.,
JOHN ARMSTRONG,

JOHN D. MCKENZIE.

Elected 1871:
Term will expire in 1874.
MATTHEW MAURY,
SAMUEL D. BABCOCK,
CHARLES A. MACY.

Board of Commissioners of Pilots,

Elected May 23, 1872:

Elected by the Chamber of Commerce.

Elected March 12, 1872:

Elected Sept. 19, 1871: Term will expire May 23, 1874. Term will expire March 12, 1874. Term will expire Sept. 19, 1873. GEORGE W. BLUNT.

AMBROSE SNOW.

ROBERT L. TAYLOR.

Trustees of the Nautical School for the Harbor of New-York.
Elected May, 1871, for five years, till May, 1876.

ELLWOOD WALTER,

GEORGE W. BLUNT,

DANIEL DRAKE SMITH.

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 October 3, 1872, To serve until October 2, 1873.

WILLIAM E. DODGE,
GEORGE OPDYKE,

JAMES S. T. STRANAHAN,
SIMEON B. CHITTENDEN.

Special Committee on a New Building for the Chamber of Commerce.

OFFICERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FROM ITS ORGANIZATION, 1768.

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:

the Chamber

Lieut. Governor
Colden,

ary,

WHEREAS, a great number of merchants in our City of Recites that New-York, in America, have, by voluntary agreement, had petitioned 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 the 28th Februtwenty-eighth day of February, last past, hath represented 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 order to carry into execution among themselves, and by their example 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,