Annual Report of the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce, of the State of New York, for the Year ..., Volume 51Press of the Chamber of Commerce, 1909 - Commerce |
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adopted Aggregate amendment American amount annual Applause April average bales BARTON HEPBURN bonds British Canada Canal Caribbean Sea cent Chairman Chamber of Commerce CHARLES companies compared consumption Corporation cotton crop Date of Election debt limit December Deposits Dollars domestic duty EDWARD SIMMONS ending June 30th exports February fiscal year ending Foreign Commerce freight gallons galls gentlemen GEORGE F GEORGE WILSON GUSTAV H HENRY honor important increase interest Island JACOB H JAMES JAMES G January JOHN JOHN CROSBY BROWN June 30 LAST TWENTY manufactures of dutiable March mills Money Orders certified months municipal National Banks November Number October operation Port Pounds preamble and resolutions present President private capital production railroad Rapid Transit receipts revenue River SCHWAB season Secretary secure Statement exhibiting steel subway sugar supply tariff tion to-day Tonnage tons trade VESSELS WILLIAM York City
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Page 107 - I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Page 200 - States, or the import or export duties on their cargoes are in excess of the fees, dues, or duties imposed on the vessels of the country in which such port is situated, or on the cargoes of such vessels ; and sections forty-two hundred and twenty-three and forty-two hundred and twenty-four, and so much of section forty-two hundred and nineteen of the Revised Statutes as conflicts with this section, are hereby repealed.
Page 84 - No county or city shall be allowed to become indebted for any purpose or in any manner to an amount which, including existing indebtedness, shall exceed ten per centum of the assessed valuation of the real estate of such county or city subject to taxation...
Page 233 - ... to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. In testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and the great seal of our said province to be hereunto affixed, and the same to be entered on record in our Secretary's office, for our said province, in one of the books of patents there remaining.
Page 199 - An act to remove certain burdens on the American merchant marine and encourage the American foreign carrying trade, and for other purposes...
Page 127 - ... in the payment of any part of either principal or interest of any funded debt authorized to be contracted by it, and whose net funded indebtedness does not exceed ten per centum of the valuation of its taxable property, to be ascertained by the last preceding valuation of property for the assessment of taxes.
Page 227 - 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...
Page 123 - Nor shall this section be construed to prevent the issue of bonds to provide for the supply of water...
Page 200 - Newfoundland; and a duty of six cents per ton, not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum, is hereby imposed at each entry upon all vessels which shall be entered in the United States from any other foreign ports, not, however, to include vessels in distress or not engaged in trade...
Page 200 - Provided, further, that such proclamation shall exclude from the benefits of the suspension herein authorized, the vessels of any foreign country in whose ports the fees or dues of any kind or nature imposed on vessels of the United States, or the import or export...