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nsurance Companies,
LVi;
Norwich Union Insurance Societies Continued.
been made, and in which persons who now insure will participate. The following may be
given as a specimen of declared
DIVIDENDS.
Such TRIENNIAL RETURNS cannot fail in continuing to recommend this Institutioa
to the Public, and more especially to those whose cost for Fire Insurance is at all considerable.
Norwich Union Insurance Office^
31, Princes Street, May, 1840,
PELICAN LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUITY, AND ENDOW-
MENT OFFICES.
LOMBARD STREET, AND SPRING-GARDENS, LONDON;
AND No. 14, GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH.
DIRECTORS,
Matthias Wood, Esq. l\t.P.
W. St.-s.-ilfy Clarke, Esq, F R.P.
John Coiipc, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq F.R.S.
Sir William Curtis, Bart.
wnilara Davis. Esq.
CbarU'8 Hampden Turner, Esq,
.Tames A. Gordon, Esq M. D.
Hugh Hammernlfy, Ksq.
Sir W. Heygate, Bart. Alderman.
John Petty Muspratt, Esq.
William Samlcr, Esq,
Grorge .Shum Storey, Esq.
fliatthpw Wliittinar. Esq.
Moukhouse Tate, jun. Secretary.
ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THIS COMPANY.
AVERY considerable reduction of Premium in the earlier stages of Life, so that L.12G0
may be assured for the same annual payments as are required by other offices for the
insurance of L.IOOO ; thus securing at the outset, and without the liabilities of a partnership,
a bonus equal to 20 per cent on the sum insured, instead of waiting, as in mutual Insurance
Companies, for deferred periods, to which, after paying higher rates of Premium, the Insurer
may never attain.
A large invested capital m i\ie public funds for the security of the assured.
Payment of claims three months after death.
Extension of time for payment of renewal of Premiums to thirty days.
Permission to persons, not seafaring by profession, to pass by sea, in time of peace, from any
part of Europe to any other part, without paying any extra Premium, and without license of
the Directors.
A tender of arbitration in all disputed cases.
Purchase of Policies on the most liberal terras, when the object of an assurance has been
effected, or individuals are unable to continue their annual payments.
Endowments on Children attaining the ages of fourteen or twenty-one years.
Annuities granted on the most equitable terms, under a special Act of Parliament.
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT FOR SCOTLAND.
Sir Francis Walker Drummond, Bart. Adolphus M. Ross, M.D.
Archibald Anderson, Esq. Alexander Brodie, Esq.
Alexander Hunter, Esq. W.S. James Balfour, Secretary.