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156 ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE
LANCASHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIFE AND FIRE.
CAPITAL, £2,000,000.
OFFICE IN GLASGOW, 4 Hanover Street.
OFFICE IN GREENOCK, Mansion House.
WEST OF SCOTLAND BOARD.
HONORARY CHAIRMAN.
SIR MICHAEL ROBERT SHAW STEWART, of Greenock and Blackhall, Bart.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMEN.
Glasgow — Wm. F. Burnley, Esq. | Greenock — Robert Steele, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Matthew Brown, Esq., Greenock.
Wm. F. Burnley, Esq., Glasgow.
David Crawford, Esq., Greenock.
John Monteith, Esq., Glasgow.
John Dunbar, Esq., Glasgow.
Thos. Richardson, Esq., Glasgow.
Robert Steele, Esq., Greenock.
James Reid Stewart, Esq., Glasgow.
W. B. Huggins, Esq., Glasgow.
James Stewart, Esq., Greenock.
Bankers, The Western Bank of Scotland.
Medical Adviser, J. B. Cowan, M.D.
Solicitor, Alexander Burrell, Esq., Writer, Glasgow.
Resident Secretary for Glasgow, David Stewart.
Resident Law Agent for Greenock, David R. Crawford.
THE peculiar features of this Company are— a Large Capital— TWO MILLIONS—
of which upwards of One and a Half Millions are actually subscribed ; a wealthy,
influential, and extensive Proprietary throughout the kingdom; upwards of £100,000 of
the Company's Stock held in the West of Scotland ; and a large commercial and gene-
ral connection through its establishments in Manchester, London, Liverpool, Glasgow,
and Greenock. *
BUSINESS IN SCOTLAND.
From special arrangements made for this Company, its whole business in Scotland
will be so managed as to make it essentially a Scotch Office, while possessing all the
influence, security, and Stability of the whole Company. In particular —
1st, The Policies will be granted and made payable in Scotland, so as to obviate the
necessity, which is applicable to the Policies of other English Companies, in the
case of Life Policies, of the representatives of the Insured obtaining at great
expense Letters of Administration or Probates from the English Ecclesiastical
Courts.
2d, This Company's Policies are also made transferable, according to the law of Scot-
land, by intimation to the Company's Officers there, thus avoiding the difficulties
and insecurity of effecting transfers in England.
3d, All questions or disputes that may occur with the Company, in reference to its
Scotch Business, if not settled by arbitration, according to the Company's Deed
of Settlement, may be tried in the Scotch Courts of Law, if desired.