Excerpt from CXXXII. Anniversary of the Founding of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, April 5th, 1900 As an illustration of the place which the Chamber has always occupied as the intelligent and authoritative critic Of legislation bearing on the commercial interests of the City, the report presented by Mr. George F. Seward on a bill before the State Legislature purport ing to provide for a more equitable distribution of the burdens of taxation, is a most valuable contribution to the present record. The statesmanlike breadth of view which has characterized all the deliverances of the Chamber on this subject is very fully exemplified in the careful and conscientious study of a highly complex question submitted by Mr. Seward and his associates of the Special Committee. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.