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ADVEETISEMENTS. .167
P
ASSURANCE COMPANY
(LIMITED),
HOLBORH BARS, LONDON, E.G.
Extracts from Thirty-seventh Annual Report, for the year ending 31si Decemhtr, 1885.
THE DIRECTORS have much pleasure in presenting their Report and Accounts for the year 1885.
The Assurance Funds have been increased during; the year by the sum of £990,345 — namely, the
Ordinary Branch £232,425, and the Industrial Branch £757,920. The total assets of the Company amount
to £5,702,862.
ORDINARY BRANCH.
The nttmber of policies issued during the year was 17,353, assuring the sum of £1,887,890, and pro-
ducing a New Annual Premium Income of £85,374- The Pjemiums of the year were £303,275, being an
increase of £64,407 over the year 1884. The total increase for the first four vears of the Quinquennium
is £162,018.
The claims of the year amounted to £108,777. The number of Deaths was 712, and 36 Endowment
Assurances matured.
The rate of expenditure of the Branch was little more than Ten per cent, on the Premium Income. The
number of Policies in force was 65,483.
INDUSTRIAL BRANCH.
The Premiums received during the year were £2,794,522, being an increase of £150,006. The Claims
of the year amounted to £1,089,878. The number of Deaths was 129,846. The number of Policies in
force, including 36,671 Free Policies, was 6,695,890.
The Directors are happy to report that the duration of policies in this Branch is still steadily increasing
The average duration of all policies now in existence exceeds five years.
The rate of expenditure of the Branch upon the Premium Income shows a further reduction of more than
jf| one-half per cent.
Every description of Life Assurance and Annuity Business transacted. The last
Annual Eeport may be obtained on application.
THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CLAIMS PAID EXCEEDS SEVEN MILLIONS.
GLASGOW OFFICE —
EST REGENT STREET,
JOSEPH RILEY, Superintendent.
Money Lent on Watches, Jewellery, Plate, Books,
Pictures, Napery, Apparel, dx.
HOMAS BALLANTYNE
PAWNBROKER,
172 EENFIELD STREET
(OOENER OF COWOADDENS).

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