Subseries V.1: Arbitration Cases, 1820s-1973

Scope and content:

The bulk of the series is found in Subseries 1 which consists of arbitration case records submitted to the Chamber's Committee on Arbitration. The Committee on Arbitration did not keep original documents for early arbitration cases; instead they recorded the name of the disputants, a brief description of the case, and the names and decision of the arbitrators' in their Committee minute books. Although this collection does not contain the original copies of the Committee minute books from that time period, the cases were compiled into a publication entitled,Earliest Arbitration Records of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, Committee Minutes, 1779-1792, which can be found in the holdings of Columbia University Libraries. The Committee on Arbitration began keeping original materials in the 1820s and while case records are inconsistent, most files found here contain correspondence and/or official arbitration documents. Following the renewal of the Committee on Arbitration in 1912, case records are more comprehensive and standardized; they often include the stenographer's minutes of the proceedings and, in some instances, evidence.

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