To have per petual n succes ner of actions. AUGUSTUS VAN HORNE, HENRY C. BOGERT, George W. LUDLOW, JOSEPH BULL, LEONARD LISPENARD, THOMAS MILLER, JAS. BEEKMAN, SAMUEL KEMBLE, ALEXANDER M'DONALD and SAMUEL BAYARD, jun., all of our City of New-York, in our said province of New-York, merchants, and their successors, to be elected by virtue of this our present Charter, shall for ever hereafter be one body corporate and politic in deed, fact and name, by the name and style, "THE CORPORATION OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK, IN AMERICA,” and them and their successors, by the same name, we do by these presents really and fully make, erect, create, constitute and declare one body politic and corporate, in deed, fact and name for ever; and will give, grant, and ordain, that they and their successors, the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, by the same name, shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall and may by the same name, be persons capable in the law to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be To sue and be defended, in all courts and elsewhere, in all manner of sued in all manactions, 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 May be capaname, shall be for ever hereafter persons capable and ble in law to able in the law to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy enjoy real to them and their successors, any messuages, tenements, houses and real estates whatsoever, and all other hereditaments of whatsoever nature, kind and quality they may be, in fee simple, for term of life or lives, or in any other manner howsoever, and also any goods, chattels or personal estate whatsoever, as well for enabling them the better to carry into execution, encourage and promote, by just and lawful ways and means, such measures as will tend to promote and extend just and lawful commerce, Το promote as to provide for, aid and assist, at their discretion, such commerce, and members of our said Corporation as may hereafter be re- assist distressed duced to poverty, and their widows and children: Provided always, the clear yearly value of the said real estate Provided their clear yearly indoth not at any time exceed the sum of three thousand come does not pounds sterling, lawful money of our Kingdom of Great exceed £3,000 Britain. And that our said Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, and their successors for ever, by the same name, shall and may have fuil power and authority to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of the same real estate and Power to lease hereditaments whatsoever, for life, or lives, or years, or real estate, &c. for ever; and all goods, chattels and personal estates purchase tate. and members. es extend sterl. per ann. or dispose of which may be altered. whatsoever at their will and pleasure, according as they shall judge to be most beneficial and advantageous to And have a the good ends and purposes aforementioned. And that common seal, it shall and may be lawful for them and their successors for ever hereafter, to have a common seal, to serve for the causes and business of them and their successors, and the same seal to change, alter, break and make new from time to time at their pleasure. And also that they and their successors, by the same name, shall and may have full power and authority to erect and build out of their common funds, or by any other ways or means, for the use of the Corporation hereby May build any erected, any house, houses or other buildings, as they house or houses. shall think necessary and convenient. And for the better carrying into execution the purposes aforesaid, our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby give and grant to the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, and their successors for ever, that there shall be for ever hereafter belonging For ever to to the said Corporation, one President, one or more have one Presi- Vice-President or Vice-Presidents, one or more Treasurer dent, one or more Vice-Pres- or Treasurers, and one Secretary; and for the more Treasur immediate carrying into execution our royal will and pleasure herein, we do hereby assign, constitute and Appointment appoint the above named JOHN CRUGER, Esq., to be the Esq., President; present President; the above named HUGH WALLACE to Hugh Wallace, be the present Vice-President; the above named ELIAS Elias Desbros- DESBROSSES to be the present Treasurer, and the above ses, Treasurer named ANTHONY VAN DAM to be the present Secretary Anthony Van Dam, Secretary. of our said Corporation hereby erected, who shall hold, idents, one or more ers, and one Secretary. of J. Cruger, Vice-President; possess and enjoy their said respective offices until the first Tuesday in May now next ensuing; and for keeping up the succession in the said offices, our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, establish, direct and require, and give and grant to the said Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, and their successors for ever, that on the said first Tuesday in May now next ensuing, [and for the keeping up the succession in the said office, our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, establish, direct and require, and give and grant to the said Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, and their successors for ever, that on the said On the first first Tuesday in May now next ensuing,] and yearly, and in every year, to every year for ever thereafter, on the first Tuesday in meet and choose May in every year, they and their successors shall meet at some convenient place in our said City of New-York, to be fixed and ascertained by some of the by-laws and regulations of our said Corporation, and there, by the majority of such of them as shall so meet, shall by ballot Tuesday in May officers. one or more Vice or more Treas one year. until And other fit persons be chosen. or in such other manner and form as shall be regulated by the by-laws or regulations of our said Corporation, And elect one elect or choose one President, one or more Vice-Presi- President, dent or Vice-Presidents, one or more Treasurer or Treas- Presidents, one urers, and one Secretary, to serve in the said offices for urers, and one the ensuing year, who shall immediately enter upon their Secretary, for respective offices, and hold, exercise and enjoy the same respectively from the time of such election, for and during the space of one year, and until other fit persons shall be elected and chosen in their respective places, according to the laws and regulations aforesaid. And in case any of the said persons by these presents nominated and appointed to the respective offices aforesaid, or who shall hereafter be elected and chosen thereto respectively, shall die, or on any account be removed from such offices re- In case any of spectively before the time of their respective appointed the present or services shall be expired, or refuse or neglect to act in shall die or be and execute the office for which he or they shall be so elected and chosen, or is or are herein nominated or appointed, that then, and in any and every such case, it others may be shall and may be lawful for the members of our said elected, body corporate hereby erected to meet at such time and times, and at such place and places within our said future officers removed, en, City of New-York, and upon such notices and summons upon notice givas shall for that purpose be established and directed by the by-laws or regulations of our said body corporate, and there, by the majority of such of them as shall so by a majority of meet, elect and choose other or others to the said offices votes, respectively in the place of him or them so dying, removing, neglecting, or refusing to act in manner and form, and after the same method to be observed in the annual elections of the like officers respectively, by virtue of these our letters patent, and the said by-laws or regulations of our said Corporation, hereby giving and granting that such person or persons as shall be so elected and chosen by the majority of such of the said members until the first of as shall meet in manner aforesaid, shall have, hold, exercise who shall exerand enjoy such the office or offices to which he or they cise the offices shall be so elected and chosen, from the time of such May following. election until the first Tuesday in 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 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, VicePresident, Treasurer and Secretary to be elected by virtue of these presents, shall, before they act in their respective offices, take an oath or affirmation to be to them administered by the President, or in his absence, by one of the take an oath or dent or Vice President, charge of their duty. day in May in every year. or any one of Officers to Vice-Presidents of the preceding year, (who are hereby affirmation be- authorized to administer the same,) for the faithful and fore the Presidue execution of their respective offices during their confor tinuance in the same respectively. And we do further, the faithful dis- for us, our heirs and successors, give and grant to the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, and their successors for ever, that besides the annual meeting of our said Corporation herein The first Tues- before directed and appointed to be held on the first Tuesday in May in every year, it shall and may be lawful for them, their heirs and successors, for ever hereafter, for promoting and carrying into execution the laudable intents and designs aforesaid, and for the transacting the business and concerns of our said Corporation, to meet together on the first Tuesday in every month, for ever, at such place or places in our said City of New-York as shall for that purpose be established, fixed, ascertained and appointed by the by-laws and regulations of our said Corporation; and that the members of our said Corporation being so met, or so many of them in number at the least as shall by the by-laws or ordinances of our said Corporation be for that purpose from time to time established, directed, ordained or appointed, shall, together with the The President President or any one of the Vice-Presidents of our said the Vice-Presi- Corporation for the time being, be a legal meeting of our dents, with such said Corporation; and they or the major part of them so members as the met, shall have full power and authority to adjourn from to be a legal day to day, or for any other time, as the business of our meeting to ad- said Corporation may require, and to do, execute and perform all and every act and acts, thing and things whatsoever which the said Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in 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 the said Corporation, for fixing and ascertaining the places of meeting of our said Corporation as aforesaid, and for regulating all other their affairs and business as they, or the major part of them so legally met, shall judge, best for the general good of the said Corporation, and profitable for the more effectually promoting the beneficial designs of their institution;-all which laws, constitutions, regulations, ordinances and statutes so to be made, framed, constituted, established and ordained as afore said, we will, command and ordain by these presents for a number of the by-laws direct, journ from day to-day, and transact business, or contrary to Great Britain For the suc bers, elect and us, our heirs and successors, to be from time to time and at all times hereafter, kept, obeyed and performed in all and be obeyed, things as the same ought to be, on the penalties and amercements in the same to be imposed and limited, so as the same laws, constitutions, regulations and statutes be reasonable in themselves, and not repugnant or contrary so that they are to the laws and statutes of that part of our kingdom of not repugnant Great Britain called England, nor of our said province the laws of of New-York. And, for the keeping up and preserving and New-York. for ever hereafter a succession of members for the said Corporation, our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby cession of memfor us, our heirs and successors, ordain and give and grant to the said Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce in the City of New-York, in America, and their successors for ever, that at any of the stated legal meetings of the at stated meetsaid Corporation, to be held on the first Tuesday in every ings only, month for ever hereafter, but at no other meeting of our said Corporation, it shall and may be lawful for them and their successors for ever, to elect and choose, in such to manner and form, and upon such terms and conditions, choose, 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 so many persons to be members of the said Corporation as they shall think beneficial to the laudable designs of the said Corporation; which persons, and every of them so from time to time elected and chosen, shall, by virtue of these who are to have presents and of such election, be vested with all the all the privi powers, authorities and privileges which any member of member is herethe said Corporation is hereby invested with. And in by with. case any other extraordinary meeting or meetings of the Extraordinary said Corporation shall at any time or times be judged meeting, necessary for the promoting the interest and business of the said Corporation, we do hereby for us, our heirs and successors, will, declare and ordain, that it shall and may be lawful for our said Corporation to meet from time to time, at such days and times, and at such places to meet in our said City of New-York, and upon such notices or notice, summons as shall for that purpose from time to time be settled, established, directed, ordained and appointed for that purpose, shall, together with the President, or one of the Vice-Presidents of the said Corporation for the time being, be a legal meeting of the said Corporation; to be legal, and they, or the major part of them so met, shall have full power and authority to act, transact, do and perform all and singular whatsoever may be transacted, done and performed at any of the hereby stated meetings aforesaid of the said Corporation, saving and except the but not to elect electing members, making laws, ordinances and statutes, laws, or dispose and disposing of the real estates of the said Corporation, of real estate. And our will and pleasure is, that until the same shall be leges that any invested upon members, make |