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XXXIV
INSURANCE DIRECTORY.
UNITED
TEMPERANCE
KINGDOM
AND GENERAL
PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
3 7 GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH.
fiO MAXWELL STREET, GLASGOW. UNION ROW, ABERDEEN.
52 PRINCES STREET, MANCHESTER. 48 CASTLE STREET, LIVERPOOL.
39 MOORGATE STREET, LONDON.
For Mutual Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments.
EDINBURGH BOARD.
DrW. P. Alison, Professor o( the Practice of Medicine In the
TJniYersitv.
1. Colquhoun, Esq., Adrocate, Secretary to the Prison Board
for Scotland.
Eobert K. Greville, LL.D.
IteY. Thomas H'Crie, D.D.
Secretary — J. G. Harrison, 17 George Street.
Robert Schaw, Esq., Director of the National Bank of Scot-
land.
John Wigham, Jan., Esq., Salisbury Road, Newlngton.
Edward Woodford, LL.D., H. M. Inspector of Schools for
Scotland.
Charles W. Wright, Esq., Pilrig Street
u*ji*„i n*fw,„ S William Young, M.D.. 60 George Square.
Medical Referee,^ wm&m Ueaz ^ SurEeon , 3 Lotli £ a Road .
Bankers.— The National Bank of Scotland ; The British Linen Company.
The following Table exhibits the progress of the Institution at the end of each Fourth year from its
commencement : —
No less than 1440 proposals for Assurances have been received, while the Policies actually issued within
the past year amount to the gratifying number of One Thousand One Hundred and Seventy-seven, covering
Assurances to the amount of £186,419, and producing an annual income of £6882, 17s.
The number of Policies issued for the Quarter ending 15th March 1853, is Three Hundred and Fifty-
four.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS OFFICE.
1. Entire profits belong to the Assured.
2. No lawsuits — disputes, if any, settled by arbitration.
3. Any sum may be assured, from £25 to £3000, payable to the Member himself on attaining any fixed
age, or at once to his Representatives, in case of earlier death.
4. Arrears may be paid up at any time, within twelve months, upon production of certificate of health.
5. Policies indisputable, except for palpable fraud.
6. This Society is formed entirely on the Mutual Principle, and possessing advantages resulting from
being enrolled under the provisions of the Acts of Parliament relating to Friendly Societies, whereby the
sums assured to the Widow, Widower, or Children of deceased Members, are payable to them free from
Legacy or Probate Duty — a privilege which the Directors, by considerable effort, were the means of securing.
7. By a clause in the New Act relating to Friendly Societies, the Board is empowered to advance Loans
to Members on the security of their Policies, of Five Tears' standing and upwards. The mode of pro-
cedure in such cases is easy and simple, entailing no trouble or legal expense, and many Members have
already availed themselves of the privilege.
8. A lower rate of mortality than in any other office in Great Britain.
9. Liberty to travel or reside in any part of Europe, in Canada, and in the northern part of the United
States, without extra charges.
-flf-B. — The Temperance and Public sections are kept in separate classes, and will each receive their own profits.
Prospectuses, also copies of the Twelfth Annual Report, may be had at the Branch Offices, and at the Chiee
Offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Manchester, Liverpool, and London.