Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the State of New York, for the Year ..., Volume 13Press of the Chamber of Commerce, 1871 - Commerce |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aggregate Annual Report April August average bags bales bbls Board of Trade Bonds Branch Mint Brazil Broadway Bullion Canal casks Chamber of Commerce CHARLES City of New-York Clarksville coastwise consumption in 1869 consumption of foreign crop crude Cuba Currency December December 31 decline demand Demerara duty EDMUND COFFIN elected Executive Committee February foreign ports France galls GEORGE OPDYKE GEORGE W Gold grades hhds Holiday imports increase January JOHN July June 30 leather Manilla manufactures March Martinique meeting Melado molasses month closed Muscovado National Banks New-Orleans November Ocean October Office Oolongs p. c. free Pacific pkgs Port of New-York Porto Rico present President Rail-Road receipts resolution RUGGLES SAMUEL Savings Bank Secretary September shipments ships Silver South-street sperm Statement exhibiting sugar supply tion Tonnage tons Total consumption United vessels Wall-street West Indies whale oil William WILLIAM E William-street wool
Popular passages
Page 30 - Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective, that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 129 - ... new from time to time at their pleasure. And also that they and their successors by the same name, shall and...
Page 131 - America are or shall by these our letters patent be authorized to do act or transact in as full and ample manner as if all and every of the members of the said corporation were present, and that at any such legal meeting of the said corporation they shall and may in writing under the common seal make frame constitute establish and ordain from time to time and at all times hereafter such laws constitutions, ordinances regulations and statutes for the better government of the officers and members of...
Page 133 - ... then next lawful meeting of our said Corporation, unless such person or persons so appointed shall be then approved of by the majority of such of the members of the said Corporation as shall then be met. And we do further, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, for us, our heirs and successors, grant and ordain, that when and as often as the President, or any...
Page 133 - Corporation shall misdemean himself in his or their said offices respectively, and thereupon a complaint or charge in writing shall be exhibited against him or them, by any member of the said Corporation, at any legal meeting or meetings of the said Corporation, that it shall and may be lawful for the members of the said Corporation then met, or the major part of them, from time to time, upon examination and due proof, to suspend...
Page 132 - ... manner and form, and upon such terms and conditions, as shall be directed, ordained and established for that purpose by any of the said by-laws, statutes, constitutions or ordinances of the said Corporation, such and...
Page 128 - ... actions suits complaints pleas causes matters and demands whatsoever as fully and amply as any other of our liege subjects of our said province of New York may or can sue or be sued implead or be impleaded defend or be defended by any lawful! ways or means whatsoever and that they and their successors by the same name...
Page 130 - Persons in whose place he or they shall be chosen might or could have done by Virtue of these Presents. And our Will and Pleasure is, and We do hereby for us, our Heirs and Successors, ordain, direct and require, that every President...
Page 147 - Hook, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days ; and all persons employing a person to act as pilot, not holding a license under this act. or under the laws of the state of New-Jersey, shall forfeit and pay to the Board of Commissioners of Pilots the sum of one hundred dollars.
Page 130 - May then next ensuing, and until other or others be legally chosen in his or their place and stead, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes whatsoever, as the person or persons in whose place he or they shall be chosen might or could have done bv virtue of these presents.