OF GENERAL AVERAGE, INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS, HELD AT YORK, IN ENGLAND, September, 1864, DESIGNED TO ESTABLISH A UNIFORMITY IN ADJUSTING GENERAL AVERAGES In the different Countries of the World. WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING THE FRENCH, DUTCH, GERMAN, NORWEGIAN AND SWEDISH BY HON. WILLIAM MARVIN, Delegate. NEW YORK: DIOSSY AND COCKCROFT, LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 71 NASSAU STREET, CORNER OF JOHN STREET. 1866. INTERNATIONAL GENERAL AVERAGE. Ar a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of New-York, held March 1st, 1866, the following report was presented and adopted by the Chamber: The Committee to whom was referred the report of Hon. WILLIAM MARVIN, delegate from this Chamber to the International General Average Congress, held at York, in England, on the 25th, 26th and 27th days of September, 1864, for the purpose of initiating measures to produce a greater degree of uniformity in the mode of adjusting general averages in the different countries of the world, have had the same under consideration, and now respectfully beg leave to report: That they consider the object contemplated by the Congress referred to as greatly conducive to the best interests of commerce, and therefore highly desirable; but the best mode of accomplishing it involves a problem of no little difficulty. It hardly appears probable that the ship-owners and underwriters in different parts of the world can be so generally induced to insert a clause in their bills of lading and policies of insurance requiring the adjustment of averages to be made in conformity with the rules recommended by the Congress at York, as to make that mode of producing uniformity to become effectual. The only sure way of accomplishing the object, it appears to |