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I N 1 R O D U C 1' I O N. 



Mdll have a number of copies printed and diftributed to the 

 members of your Society, who will be pleafed to give them, 

 or fuch of them as they may refpedively aprove, in charge 

 of the captains of their veffels, and dire£l them to be ftuck 

 up in their cabbins. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



With much confideration and efteem, 

 Your mofl obedient humble fervant, 



ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, 

 JOHN BROOME, Efq; 

 Prejldent of the Chamber of Commerce, 



At a fated Meeting of the New -York Chamber of 

 Commerce, held at their Chamber the ']th of fan. 1794. 



A COMMUNICATION of the Society for the Promotion 

 of Agriculture and Ufeful Arts, by letters from Robert R. 

 Livingston, Efq; Prefident, and Samuel L. Mitchill, 

 Efq; Secretary, was read, and the object of that communication 

 being approved, it was, upon motion, refolved — 



That the Corporation of the Chamber of Commerce of the 

 State of New- York, in the United States of America, 

 recommend a compliance with the following Inftrudions, to 

 all Captains of velfels failing from this port to Afia, Africa, 



