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Insurance Companies.
PELICAN LIFE ASSURANCE, ANNUITY, AND ENDOW-
MENT OFFICES.
Lombard Street, and Spring-Gardens, London ;
AND No, 14, George Street, Edinburgh.
Matthias Wood, Esq., M.P.
W. Stanley Clarke, Ksq., F.B.S.
John Coopf, Esq.
William Cottoii, Esq.,F.R.S.
Sir wliliatD CurtSs, U^m.
DIRECTORS.
William Uavis, Ef q.
Cliai'ies Hampden Turner, Esq.
i James A. Gordon, Esq., M.D.
Hugii Hannmcrslt'y, Esq.
I Sir W. Heygatf, Bart. Alderman.
Jolin Petty Muspratt, Esq.
Wlllian) Samler, Esq.
George Slium Storey, Esq.
Matth«vy Wliitting, Esq.
MoBlihouse Tate, jun., Secretary.
ADVANTAGES OFFERED BY THIS COMPANY.
VERY considerable reduction of Premium in the earlier stages of Life, so that £1200
may be assured for the same annual payments as are required by other offices for the
insurance of ^£1000 ; 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 in the public funds for the security of the assured.
Payment of claims three months after death.
Extension of time for payment of renewal 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 li-
cense of the Directors
A tender of arbitration in all disputed cases.
Purchase of Policies on the most liberal terms, when the object of an assurance has been
effected, or individuals are finable to continue their annual payments.
Endowments on children attaining the ages of fourteen or twenty-one years.
Annuities granted on the roost equitable terms, under a special Act of Parliament.
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT FOR SCOTLAND.
Sir Francis Walker Drummond, Bart.
Archibald Anderson, Esq.
Alexander Hunter, Esq., W.S.
Adolphus M. Ross, M.D.
Alexander Brodie, Esq.
James Balfour, Secretary,
SCOTTISH AMICABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
ON THE MODEL OF THE LONDON EQUITABLE,
AS ORIGINALLY ESTABLISHED.
OFFICE IN EDINBURGH, 13, ST ANDREW SQUARE.
HEAD OFFICE, 147, BUCHANAN STREET, GLASGOW.
President — Walter Frederick Campbell of Islay, Esq., M.P.
Vice- Presiderits — John M'Neil of CoUonsay, Esq.
John Campbell Colquhoun, Esq. of Killermont and Garscadden, M.P.
William Spens, Esq., Manager,
LOCAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS IN EDINBURGH.
Chairman — The Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie.
Alexander Cunningham, Esq., W.S.
George Gillanders, Esq., W.S. of Highfield.
Duncan M'Neill, Esq., advocate
Thomas Thomson, Esq., W.S.
Alexander Thomson, Esq., W.S.
Henry George Watson, Secretary.
James Simson, Esq., M.D., iHferf/ca/ Q^ccr.
THIS INSTITUTION is founded on the best and purest principles of mutual assurance.
The sound principles of calculation on which such Societies have been established, had
long satisfied those acquainted with the subject of the great advantages they conferred on In*