re-elected to the 43d Congress. He commenced life as a factory operative, but by dint of energy and perseverance secured an academic education. When quite young he embarked in the paper manufacturing business at Fitchburg, and in later years became much interested in the necessity of a complete railway system for Northern Massachusetts, and it was mainly through his effort that the Boston and Fitchburg Railway was constructed.

MR. CROCKER was a man of remarkable energy and quite an active member of the Boston Board of Trade, on several occasions representing it at the National Board.

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RESOLUTIONS.

I. ON GRAIN ELEVATORS.

II. ON UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND MOIETIES.

III. ON BANKRUPT LAW.

IV. ON CODIFICATION OF UNITED STATES TARIFF LAWS. V. ON STORM SIGNAL SERVICE.

VI. ON LIABILITY OF RAILROADS AS COMMON CARRIERS.

VII. ON STATE CENSUS, 1875.

VIII. ON PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF CUNARD STEAMERS. IX. ON RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA.

X. ON HOOSAC TUNNEL.

XI. ON COMBINING LIFE INSURANCE WITH SAVINGS BANKS. XII. ON CUSTOMS REVENUE, ETC.

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.

I. ON TARIFF OF FEES FOR SEALED CARS FROM CANADA. II. ON PENALTY OF BONDS FOR TRANSPORTATION AND

EXPORTATION TO CANADA.

III. ON THE JOHNSON FORCE PUMP.

IV. ON PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF CUNARD STEAMERS.

V. ON STORM SIGNAL SERVICE.

VI. ON THE UNION OF SAVINGS BANK AND LIFE INSURANCE. VII. ON REPEAL OF MOIETIES.

RESOLUTIONS.

I. GRAIN ELEVATORS.

Resolved, That in order that the City of Boston may be able to compete successfully with the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, in the export trade of grain and other products of the West, it is of imperative necessity that all the railroads connecting with the West should have at their termini at deep water, suitable elevators for grain, and sheds of ample dimensions for the prompt handling of such merchandise at the smallest possible expense; and it is especially important that immediate measures be taken by the Boston and Lowell and Fitchburg Railroads, to furnish these indispensable facilities at as early a date as is practicable, at their termini. January 5, 1874.

II. UNITED STATES CUSTOMS AND MOIETIES.

Resolved, That in the judgment of the Board, the laws under which the customs duties are now collected, are complex, cumbrous and difficult to understand; and in connection with the demoralizing system of rewarding informers by moieties, and with the arbitrary powers vested in officers who are themselves informers, to seize books and papers, they too commonly serve as a trap for honest importers, and an encouragement to corruption, oppression and private bribery.

Resolved, That these evils are so great, and are exerting so destructive an influence on the morals of trade, that we respectfully ask of Congress, in the name of the commerce of the country, at once to do away with all rewards to informers, and all penalties and confiscations for the benefit of salaried officers of the customs: to take from such officers all powers of arbitrary seizure of books and papers, and to enforce the sacredness of private correspondence when entrusted to the Nation's keeping in the mails.