United States a sound financial system. This was simply the discharge of a public duty, but your approval of it is none the less welcome. I accept with pleasure the honor conferred upon me, and hope that I will never do any act unworthy of it. The communication was ordered to be placed on file. The following communication was read from the Hon. GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS : WEST NEW BRIGHTON, STATEN ISLAND, N. Y., March 7th, 1891. MY DEAR SIR: I have your kind note informing me of my election as an honorary member of the Chamber of Commerce, and I beg to assure you that it is an honor of which I am deeply sensible, and I accept with pride and pleasure this token of the friendly regard of your ancient and honorable fraternity. Very truly yours, Mr. GEORGE WILSON, (Signed,) GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS. Secretary Chamber of Commerce, New York. The communication was ordered to be placed on file. The following communication was read from Mr. WILLIAM D. WINDOM: Mr. CHARLES S. SMITH, WASHINGTON, March 12, 1891. President of the Chamber of Commerce, New-York, N. Y. : DEAR SIR: The family of the late Secretary of the Treasury desires very gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of six copies of the proceedings of the Chamber of Commerce at its meeting of February 5th, 1891. This tribute to his character and public services, coming from your honorable body and accompanied by such expressions of the personal esteem of individual members, is a consolation in our great sorrow, and will, I beg to assure you, be ever held in grateful remembrance. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully yours, WILLIAM D. WINDOM. The communication was ordered to be placed on file. The following communication was read from Mrs. MARY F. SCHULTZ: 303 EAST 17TH STREET, NEW-YORK, March 28th, 1891. Mr. GEORGE WILSON, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce: DEAR SIR: You will please pardon the unavoidable delay in acknowledging receipt of the official copy of resolutions and tribute of the Chamber of Commerce to the memory of my lamented husband. I fully appreciate their sincerity and their worth, and would gratefully acknowledge this complimentary recognition of the character and services of Mr. ScHULTZ from the honorable body with whom he was associated for so many years. I thank you personally for the very kind letter of sympathy, and the valued expressions of appreciation and friendship for my late husband, accompanying the volumes forwarded. The six additional copies in cloth will be sufficient for distribution to members of the family, and I think no more will be required. Yours sincerely, MARY F. SCHULTZ. The communication was ordered to be placed on file. A communication was read from the IIon. WILLIAM II. RobertSON, dated Senate Chamber, Albany, March 14th, 1891, acknowledg ing the receipt of a copy of the protest of the Chamber against the passage of Senate Bill No. 391, depriving the Chamber and other corporate bodies of the power conferred by statute to appoint Commissioners to License Sailors' Hotels in the City of New-York. Senator ROBERTSON stated the protest had been presented to the Senate, and ordered to be printed. The communication was ordered to be placed on file. The Chamber then adjourned. ROLL OF MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED, WITH DATES OF ELECTION, AND THEIR PLACES OF BUSINESS ON THE 30TH OF APRIL, 1891. 21 Park Row. 189 Broadway. 2 Wall-street. (Res.,) 16 East 35th-street. 4 Murray-street. 100 Reade-street. 3 Bond-street. 26 Broadway. 1874, December 3, Appleton, William H., 1865, October 1881, October 1876, October 1889, October 4, Baker, George F.,. 6, Balch, Collins L.... 80 Broadway. Nassau, cor. Cedar-street. 56 Maiden Lane. 2 Wall-street. 313 Broadway. 5, Baldwin, Christopher C.,.... 11 Wall-street. 6, Baldwin, Octavius D.,. 5, Ball, Thomas P.,. 1882, April 6, Baltzer, Herman R., 5, Barr, Thomas T.,. 1877, December 6, Bartlett, Edward B.,.. 1886, November 4, Bates, Alfred W.,.. 115 Broadway. 5 Hanover-street. 78 Leonard-street. 154 Fifth Avenue. (Res.,) 25 East 57th-street. (Res.,) 165 West 57th-street. 100 Hudson-street. 130 Water-street. 346 Broadway. 1887, February 3, Blackford, Eugene G.,...... 3, Blumenthal, Ferdinand,. 8, Blum, Hyman, 1885, January 1888, January 1887, October 1890, June 1885, October 1882, May 5, Bonnell, J. Harper,. 6, Boody, David A.,.......... 5, Bosher, Charles Hopkins,... 1889, November 7, Bourne, Frederick G.,............. 1884, December 4, Brewster, Benjamin,..... 1875, November 4, Brewster, James D.,... 1891, April 2, Brice, Calvin S.,... 1975, November 4, Brinckerhoff, Elbert A.,..... 1891, April 2, Brinckerhoff, Gurdon G 1889, November 7, Brokaw, Isaac V.,.. 1889, November 7, Brokaw, William V., 1883, March 1890, January 1, Brookfield, William,,. 1884, December 4, Brown, Edward M.,. 1890, January 2, Brown, Frederick T.,....... Place of Business. 291 Broadway. 75 Leonard-street. 15 Broad-street. 1263 Bedford Ave., B'klyn. 806 Broadway. 117 Duane-street. Nassau, cor. Cedar-street. 49 Cotton Exchange. 38 Thomas-street. 193 William-street. 38 Thomas-street. (Res.,) 800 Fifth Avenue. 71 Wall street. 34 Union Square. 132 South Fifth Avenue. 90 Wall-street. 26 Broadway. 34 Fourth Avenue. 34 Fourth Avenue. 20 Nassau-street. 122 Produce Exchange. 408 Broome-street. 408 Broome-street. 470 Broadway. .... 101 Wall-street. 3, Browning, William C., ..... 1889, February 7, Buckley, William F., 101 Wall-street. 3 Broad-street. 38 Broad-street. 1862, November 6, Burdett, Charles P.,........ Stamford, Conn. |