The President, Vice-Presidents and Secretary ex officio members. Committee on Finance and Currency. J. PIERPONT MORGAN, Chairman. GEORGE S. COE, CYRUS W. FIELD, JOSIAH M. FISKE, Committee on Foreign Commerce and the Revenue Laws. JAMES W. ELWELL, Chairman. Board of Trustees having charge of the Real Estate of the Chamber of Commerce. Board of Commissioners of Pilots, elected by the Chamber of Commerce. Commissioner for Licensing Sailors' Hotels or Boarding Houses, in behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. WILLIAM D. MORGAN. Council of the Nautical School, established by Act of the Legislature, passed April 24th, 1873. CHARLES H. MARSHALL, Chairman. J. SANFORD BARNES, THOMAS P. BALL. Delegates to attend the Meetings of the National Board of Trade. CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, WITH ACT OF RE-INCORPORATION. 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 Lient. Governor WHEREAS, a great number of merchants in our City of, the Chamber 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 Febru twenty-eighth day of February, last past, hath represent-ary, ed 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, |