Excerpt from The City on the James; Richmond, Virginia: The Chamber of Commerce Book The sanction Of this Richmond Chamber is no ordinary indorsement. That body has, in its own borough certainly, an uncommon degree of dignity and influence. It has prescriptive rights, which it exercises freely, as the grand council Of the city's business men. In matters Of importance affecting the whole body of them, it is their moot court and senate. Through its committees it is proctor and tribune for them, frequently, in their ...
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Excerpt from The City on the James; Richmond, Virginia: The Chamber of Commerce Book The sanction Of this Richmond Chamber is no ordinary indorsement. That body has, in its own borough certainly, an uncommon degree of dignity and influence. It has prescriptive rights, which it exercises freely, as the grand council Of the city's business men. In matters Of importance affecting the whole body of them, it is their moot court and senate. Through its committees it is proctor and tribune for them, frequently, in their differences with railroads and in their appeals to the powers that be. It is often, similarly, the umpire of their domestic disputes. It serves, like the press, by frequent discussion of live topics, as a prompter of the public mind and as a moulder of public opinion and as the disseminator of informa tion respecting the progress of the city, it is, like the press also, and in the present instance particularly. Their herald. It has, moreover, weight, as an institution long established and in flourishing condition. It was organized in 1867, has a thousand members, representative of the jobbing, manufacturing, financial, transportation, real estate and professional interests of the city and State, and is building for itself a stately edifice of modern fashion at an expense Of something like two hundred thousand dollars. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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