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POST-OFFICE DIRECTORT ADVERTISER. 35
EDINBURGH AMERICAN '
LAND MORTGAGE COMPANY (LIMITED).
Registered 11th September 1878.
SUBSOEIBED CAPITAL, £250,000, in 50,000 Shares of £5.
PAID-UP CAPITAL, £50,000. EE SERVE FUND, £10,250.
Borrowing Powers limited to Amount of Uncalled Capital.
DIRECTORS.
J. E. FoRMAN, Esq. of Craigpark, Eatho, Chairman.
James Muirhead, Esq., Advocate, Edinburgh.
M. T. Stormonth Darling, Esq., Advocate, Edin.
Graham G. Watson, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh.
William Wood, Esq., O.A., Edinburgh.
Francis Black, Esq., Publisher, Edinburgh.
Henry Cadell, Esq. of Grange, Linlithgowshire.
Solicitors — Messrs. Garment, Wedderburn, & Watson, W.S., Edinburgh.
' _- Atiditors — Messrs. Scoxt-Mcncpieff & Thomson, C.A., Edinburgh.
General Agents in America — Messrs. Ji':sup, Paton, & Co., Bankers, New York.
Bankers — Royal Bank of Scotland.
THIS Company is prepared to accept Loans to a limited amount, on Debenture or Deposit
Receipt. The Debentures are accompanied by Interest Coupons, payable half-yearly, on 15th
May and 11th November, which can be cashed free of expense at any Bank. Warrants are issued
half-yearly for the interest on the Deposit Receipts.
The Securities upon which the Company's Funds are invested have been carefully selected, and
are mostly First Mortgages over improved farm lands in certain parts of the United States, in respect
of advances not exceeding about 40 per cent, of the appraisers' valuations. Debenture-holders and
Depositors have further the security of the Company's Uncalled Subscribed Capital of ^£200,000, and
Reserve Fund of £10,250. The Reserve Fund is wholly invested in Colonial Government Securities,
and in Railway Preference Stocks in Great Britain.
Forms of Application, copies of last Report, and full particulars, may be had from
W. A. WOOD, C.A., Secretary.
Registered Office — 28 Frederick Street, Edinburgh.
LONDON AND CANADIAN LOAN AND AGENCY COMPANY
(LIMITED).
Capital Authorized by Charter, . £1,027,400 I Of which called up (14 per cent), . £115,068
Amount Subscribed for, . . 821,917 | Reserve Fund, 49, 315
Total Assets £797,347
President— "Hhc Hon. Sir W. P. Howlanh, K.G.M.G., C.B., President of the Ontario Bank,
and President of the Confederation Life Association.
Vice-Presidents — Col. C. S. Gzowski, A.D.C. to the Queen, and Vice-President of the Ontario
Bank ; A. T. Fulton, Esq., Director of the Bank of Toronto.
Manage) — J. Gr.int Macdonald, Esq.
Scottish Board — Colin J. Mackenzie, Esq. of Portmore.
A. D. M. Black, Esq., W.S., Edinburgh. Robert Hutchison, Esq. of Carlowrie, Merchant, Leith.
W. H. Murray, W.S. (of Messrs. .1. & F. Anderson, W.S.), Edinburgh.
DEPOSIT RECEIPTS aud DEBENTURE BONDS are issued by the Company, free of
all expense to the Lenders, on the following terms : —
Deposits for two or three years, 4^ per cent. ; for four or five years, 4i per cent.
Debentures (in Bonds of £100, £.500, or £1000 each) for five years, 4^ per cent.
The Deposit Interest AYarrants and Debenture Coupons are payable half-yearly
(2nd January and 2nd July) by the National Bank of Scotland Limited, by whom also the
principal sums are paid at maturity. Interest runs from date of payment to the Company's
Agents. The Company's borrowing powers are limited to the amount of the Uncalled
Subscribed Capital.
Further particulars, and copies of the last Report and List of Shareholders of
the Company, may be had free on applying to
MACKENZIE & BLACK, W.S., 28 Castle Street, Edinburgh,
General Agents of the Company.