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ADVERTISEMENTS. 113
FIRE & LIFE ASSURAIOE ASSOCIATIONS.
CHIEF OFFICES— UNITY BUILDINGS, 8 CANNON STREET, LONDON.
CAPITAL, £2,500,000.
Manager and Secketart, THOMAS GRAY, Esq.
BRANCH OFFICES FOR THE WEST OF SCOTLAND, 98 QUEEN STREET, GLASGOW.
Local Manager, ALEX. R. BARLAS, Esq.
Medical Officer, :GE0. H. B. MACLEOD, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.S.
Solicitor, JOHN LAMONT, Esq., 90 West Nile Street.
Bankers, COMMERCIAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.
Local Manager for EDINBURGH and the East of Scotland, JAMES MUIR, Esq.
Offices — 28 South Hanover Street, Edinburgh.
General Manager for IRELAND, ALEXANDER M'NEALE, Esq.
Offices — 34 Westmoreland Street, Dublin.
FIRE BRANCH.
'^ pHE FIRE DEPARTMENT has a clear available Capital of £80,000, over and above its large Annual
X Revenue of £45,000.
Insurances against Fire are received upon nearly all descriptions of Property in the United Kingdom,
and in Foreign Countries, more particularly in the Colonies, India, China, United States, the Continent of
Europe, South America, and Australia. The Association offers peculiar advantages in this branch of Fire
Insurance, from its moderate rates, experience, and the co-operatioa of its numerous Foreign Agents.
The Rates of Premium in this Department will be generally as moderate as those of other responsible
Companies.
LIFE BRANCH.
The LIFE DEPARTMENT has an Insurance Reserve of £65,000, in addition to its Annual Revenue of
£25,000.
This Association possesses all the elements required to develope the benefits of Life Assurance, and to
extend its advantages to Assurers; and every practicable accommodation that can be honourably and safely
carried out by Assurance Companies is affiarded to Assurers in this Office.
Thirty days' grace allowed for payment of Annual Premiums, and fifteen days for Half-yearly Premiums.
In the event of a death happening, within the days of grace, the Claim will be paid if the Premiums be ten-
dered before they expire.
Travelling to, and residence in, any part of Europe allowed without any additional charge, and the extra
Premium charged for Voyage to, and residence in, any Foreign Country, or for active Naval and Military
Service, or any other special risk, are fixed on a moderate basis.
The Scotch Business having been centralized under Local Managers of experience, in the West and East
of Scotland, Assurers are thereby secured all the advantages of a Local Office.
Notices of Assignment received and registered at the Company's Branch Offices in Glasgow, Edinburgh,
and Dublin.
Claims are paid either in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, or Dublin, and either on English, Scotch, or Irish
Titles; and parties assuring with the Company in Scotland or Ireland secure all the benefits that can be
obtained in a Scotch or Irish Office.
AGENTS IN GLASGOW.
FRENCH & FULTON, Accountants, 57 Miller Street.
ROBERT GILMER, Accountant, 135 Buchanan Street.
WILLIAM MACLEBIE, Writer, 29 St. Vincent Place.
ENEAS N. LAMONT, Writer, 98 West Nile Street.
ROBERT SINCLAIR, Writer, 14 Miller Street.
THOS. CUTHBERTSON, Merchant, 104 Hutcheson Street.
D. M'CORKLE & CO., Agents, 1 Oswald Street.
JAMES MUIR, House Agent, 4 Hamilton Street (Partick).
ROBERT EDGAR, Saddler, Main Street (Rutherglen).
GREENOCK.
ROBERT SHANKLAND, Merchant 21 Cathcart Street.
W. MILLIGAN, Merchant, 4 Bogle Street.
DANL. MACLEAN, Writer....... Cathcart Street (Fire Branch).