§ 4903. Chamber of commerce to appoint committee to serve as council. The chamber of commerce of New York is authorized to provide for and appoint a committee of its members to serve as a council of the nautical school, whose duty it shall be, as far as may be, to advise and cooperate with the board of education of the city of New York in the establishment and management of such school and from time to time to visit and examine the same, and to communicate in respect thereof with the board of education or such executive committee thereof, and to make reports to the chamber of commerce which may transmit to the commissioner of education such reports, or any thereof, or an abstract of the same, with such recommendations as may be deemed advisable.