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LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
(Founded A.D. 1815, onthe Original Model of the Equitable
Society of London.)
The Eighteenth Annual General Court of this Society
was held at Edinburgh, within the Waterloo Tavern, on
Monday, 16th January current ; Right Honourable Eabl
of RosEBERT, President of the Society, in the Chair.
There were laid before the Court the Report of the Se-
cond Periodical Investigation of the Society's Affairs, as at
3lst December last, and the orders pronounced thereon by
an Extra4)rdinary Court of Directors, held on the 13th
current, allocating the Surplus Funds, in terms of the laws
of the Society ; all of which were, after an eloquent address
by the Earl of Rosebery, unanimously approved of by the
General Court.
On the motion of the Honourable Lord !\IoxcREirr, the
thanks of the Court ■^vere unanimously voted to the Direc-
tors of the Society, Ordinary and Extraordinary, for their
able and successful administration of the Society's affairs.
On the motion of George Joseph Bell, Esq. Professor
of Scots Law, the Court unanimously approved of the ar-
rangements recommended by the Extraordinary Court, re-
lative to the Ordinary Court of Directors.
His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Qiteexsberky,
as a Member of the Society, then moved that the Direction
for the current year be vested in the following Gentlemen,
(a// of whom, in terms of the laws, are Members of the So-
ciety of more than three years' standing), which motion was
unanimously carried, and the Direction filled up according-
ly, viz. : —
COURT OF DIRECTORS, 1832.
President.
The Right Honourable the Earl of Rosebert
Vice-Presidents.
Robert Dundas, Esq. of Arniston.
Thomas Francis Kennedy, Esq. of Dunure, M.P.
Sir Francis Walker Drummond, Bart, of Hawthornden.
The Honourable Lord Moncreiff.
Extraordinary Directors.
- Charles Neaves, Esq. writer, Edinburgh.
John Thomson, Esq. Cashier of Royal Bank.
Leonard Horner, Esq. London.
Alexander Smith, Esq. banker, Edinburgh.
Horatius Cannan, Esq. W. S.
John Gardiner Kinnear, Esq. banker, Edinburgh.
Theodore Walrond, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.
Alexander Pringle, Esq. of Whytbank, M. P.
Robert Hope Moncrieff, Esq. writer, Perth.
John Anderson, Esq. of Gladswood.
Mark Sprot, Esq. of Garnkirk.
William Burn, Esq. architect, Edinburgh.
Patrick Robei'tsoD, Esq. advocate.