CITIES.

ALBANY.

The Charter of the City of Albany was granted July 23d, 1686, in the second year of the reign of James II.

ALBANY BIBLE SOCIETY.

Annual meeting second Thursday of February.
Stephen Van Rensselaer, President.

W. H. Williams, Recording Secretary.
Josiah Sherman, Treasurer.

ALBANY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

Organized January 27, 1830

Alden March, M. D. President.
Benjamin Van Zandt, Secretary.
Samuel Shaw, Treasurer,

ALBANY TYPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

Annual meeting, first Tuesday of March.

Solomon Baker, President.
Philo K. Cole, Secretary.
James Aikens, Treasurer.

ALBANY LANCASTER SCHOOL.

Annual meeting, first Monday in February.
Simeon De Witt, President.
Gideon Hawley, Vice President.
Charles R. Webster, Treasurer.
Joseph Henry, Secretary.

ALBANY FEMALE SEMINARY.

Annual meeting, first Tuesday in January.

Trustees.-James McKown, Edward C. Delavan, Robert C. Crit. tenden, Samuel S. Fowler, Alfred Conkling, John O. Cole, James G. Mather.

ALBANY INSTITUTE.

Incorporated February 27, 1829.

Stephen Van Rensselaer, President.

Charles R. Webster, Treasurer.

ALBANY ST. NICHOLAS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.

Abraham Van Vechten, President.

Harmanus Bleecker, 1st. Vice President.

John L. Viele, 2d. Vice President.

John H. Burhans, 3d. Vice President.

Volkert P. Douw, Treasurer.

John B. Staats, Secretary.

John Ludlow, Chaplain.

John W. Bay, Physician.

John M. Bloodgood, Superintendent of Streets,

Charles Dobbs, Assistant.

Jacob P. Roome, Superintendent of Repairs.
Daniel Hageman, Superintendent of Wharves.
William S. Smith, Collector of the City Revenue.
Jamieson Cox, Collector of Assessments.

The Board of Health consists of the Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen; any five of whom constitute a quorum.

The Mayor, ex-officio, President.
Jacob Morton, Secretary.

Health Office.

Dr. Smith Cutter, Commissioner.

Dr. James R. Manley, Resident Physician.
Dr. John S. Wetesrvelt, Health Officer.

NEW-YORK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Officers elected May 1830.

Robert Lenox, P.esident,

William W. Woolsey, First Vice President,
Isaac Carow, Second Vice President,

Henry 1. Wyckoff, Treasurer,
John A. Stevens, Secretary.

Committee of the Chamber of Commerce to adjust mercantile dis.

This association was organized in January 1828, by a number of patriotic individuals for the purpose of encouraging domestic industry in "Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, and the Arts." May 2d, 1819, the Legislature incorporated them a body politic, with powers adequate to their general objects. For particulars of the charter, see Laws of the State of New York, 52 session page 528.

The meetings of the Institute have been held with great regularity, from its first organization, ordinarily monthly, and sometimes oftener. The members are arranged by the By Laws into four departments, viz. Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and the Mechanic Arts.

The By Laws require, that subjects presented to the Institute, be referred to their appropriate departments, to be reported upon. A great variety of important facts have from time to time been presented to the Institute in the form of reports, some of which have been published.

Several public addresses have been delivered on the fourth of July, and two addresses on the occasion of the annual Fairs, one by Gen. James Lynch, of this city, and the last by the honorable Tristram Burgess, of Rhode Island.

Some of the members have devoted particular attention to the culture of Silk, and in 1829 a large quantity of Mulberry seed was imported from France by the Institute, and distributed to individuals gratuitously, The effect of protecting duties on domestic industry by multiplying,