PART THIRD CHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITH LIST OF OFFICERS AND ROLL OF MEMBERS ON MAY 7. 1914 CONTENTS PAGE Charter of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, 1770....... 3 12 18 Roll of Members of the Chamber of Commerce, May 7, 1914.. 30 Officers of the Chamber from its organization, 1768.. 65 68 CHARTER OF THE CORPORATION OF THE Chamber of Commerce in the City of New Vork 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: the Chamber or Colden, 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 purpose of promot- Lieut. Governing 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 New York, and the territories depending thereon in America, and read in our Council for our said Province, on the twenty-eighth the 28th Febru day of February, last past, hath represented to our said ary. 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 and more adequate to the purposes of so them. benevolent an institution; and therefore the petitioner, in behalf of the said Society, most humbly prayed our said to incorporate Lieutenant-Governor to incorporate them a body politic, and to invest them with such powers and authorities as might be thought most conducive to answer and promote the commercial and, consequently, the landed interests of our said growing colony; which petition being read as aforesaid, was then and there referred to a Committee of our said Council, and afterwards, on the same day, our said Council, in pursuance of the report of the said Committee, did humby advise and consent, that our said LieutenantGovernor, by our letters patent, should constitute and appoint the petitioner, and the present members of the said by the name of Society, a body corporate and politic, by the name of The Corpora- THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN AMERICA," agreeable the City of New to the prayer of the said petition: Therefore, we being York, in America." willing to further the laudable designs of our said loving subjects, and to give stability to an institution from whence great advantages may arise, as well as to our kingdom of Great Britain as to our said province, tion of the of IN Chamber KNOW YE, That of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, we have willed, ordained, given, granted, constituted and appointed, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, do will, ordain, give, grant, constitute, and appoint, that the present members of the said Society, associated for the purpose aforesaid, that is to say, JOHN CRUGER, ELIAS DESBROSSES, JAMES JAUNCEY, JACOB WALTON, ROBERT MURRAY, HUGH WALLace, George FOLLIOT, WM. WALTON, JOHN ALSOP, HENRY WHITE, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, SAMUEL VERPLANCK, THEOPHYLACT BACHE, THOMAS WHITE, MILES SHERBROOK, WALTER FRANKLIN, ROBERT Ross WADDELL, ACHERSON THOMPSON, LAWRENCE CORTWRIGHT, THOMAS RANDALL, WILLIAM M'ADAM, ISAAC LOW, ANTHONY VAN DAM, ROBERT WATTS, JOHN HARRIS CRUGER, GERARD WALTON, ISAAC SEARS, JACOBUS VAN ZANDT, CHARLES M'EVERS, JOHN MOORE, LEWIS PINTARD, LEVINUS CLARKSON, NICHOLAS GOUVERNEUR, RICHARD YATES, THOMAS MARSTON, PETER HASSENCLIVER, ALEXANDER WALLACE, GABRIEL H. LUDLOW, THOMAS BUCHANNAN, WM. NEILSON, SAMPSON SIMPSON, PETER KETTLETAS, GERARD W. BEEKMAN, JACOB WATSON, RICHARD SHARPE, PETER REMSEN, HENRY REMSEN, junior, WILLIAM SETON, EDW. LAIGHT, JOHN READE, ROBERT ALEXANDER, THOMAS W. MOORE, ABRAHAM LYNSON, ISAAC ROOSEVELT, NICHOLAS HOFFMAN, HAMILTON YOUNG, THOMAS WALTON, JOHN THURMAN, JOHN WEATHERHEAD, GARRIT RAPELYE, |