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ADVERTISEMENTS. 121
INSURANCE COMPANY OF SCOTLAND,
UNITED (1847) WITH
Qty Alliance Assurance CDompang of HLonfcron.
INSTITUTED IN 1821 INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER,
CAPITAL-FIVE MILLIONS STERLING.
HEAD OFFICES,
Edinburgh, 95 George Street — London, Bartholomew Lane.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSURANCE.
PERSONS effecting Assurances with the Company, enjoy the following important
advantages : —
PERFECT security.
The large Capital, and nearly One Thousand Shareholders composing the Company,
render the security presented to the Public undoubted.
honour and liberality in the settlement of losses.
The well-known character of the Members of the Direction affords on this head every
possible security.
MODERATE PREMIUMS OF ASSURANCE.
The Rates in Life Cases, for the younger ages, lower than those charged by many of the
older and most respectable Offices.
The Premiums for Fire Risks are the same as those which are demanded by the first
Class of Assurance Companies.
PARTICIPATION OF PROFITS BY THE ASSURED BOTH IN LIFE AND FIRE.
The Profits of the Life Department, appropriated every five years, are applied to the
increase of the amounts assured, or to the reduction of the future premiums, according
to the choice of the Assured.
The Profits of the Fire Department, appropriated to the Assured, are distributed at the
close of each successive period of five years, in the form of a per centage on the pre-
miums which have been paid.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Parties may effect Assurances on a Non-Participating Scheme at reduced rates.
Assurances may also be effected on the Ascending or Descending Scales, and on Joint-
Lives or Survivorships.
NO ENTRY-MONEY CHARGED.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Company Insures nearly every description of Property, including Cotton, Wool,
Flax, Silk, and Paper Mills, Distilleries, Print-Works, &c, at rates regulated by the
peculiarities of each case.
POLICIES WITH OTHER OFFICES TRANSFERRED FREE OF CHARGE.
AGENTS IN GLASGOW.
Chas. Cunningham, 54 St. Vincent St.
John M'Vey, 33 Virginia Street.
Tennent & Co., 101 Miller Street.
Black & Salmond, 141 West George St.
Wm. Church, jun., 67 St. Vincent Street (for Fire Department only).
R. S. Hamilton, 91 North Frederick Street, Surveyor.
By order of the Directors,
DAVID MACLAGAN, Manager.
C. J. Ord, 116 St. Vincent Street.
J. C. Foulds, 64 Buchanan Street
Thomas Wyld, Commercial Bank,
Gabriel Neil, 13 Virginia Street.