CHAMBER

A room. or apartment.in a house. A private repository of money; a treasury. ·sometimes used to designate a court, a commi ion, or an a ociation of G. persons habitually· meeting together in an apartment, e. g., the "star chamber," "cham· ber of deputies," "chamber of commerce." CHAMBER OF ACCOUNTS, In French law. A sovereign court, of great antiquity, H in France, which took. cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king's -revenue; nearly the same as the English court of exchequer. Enc. Brit. [s. 193]