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24 EDINBURGH AND LEITH
SCOTTISH AMERICAN
Investment Company Limited,
Incorporated 2%th March 1873, under the Companies Acts, 1862 and 1867.
Subscribed Capital, . . . . £2,500,000
Called and Paid-up, £516,799
Reserve Fund, 31st December 1899, £400,000
Insurance Fund, .... £10,000
2)lrectoi'6.
Sir George Warrender, of Lochend, Bart., Chairman.
Edward L. I. Blyth, C.E.
J. W. Brodie, C.A.
Patrick William Campbell, W.S.
A. R. Duncan, Advocate.
James A. Jamieson, W.S.
William Hugh Murray, W.S.
William John Menzies, W.S., Managing Director.
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John A. Stewart, Esq., President, United States Trust Co., New York.
Thomas Denny, Esq., New York.
Agents in New York — Messrs. J. Kennedy Tod & Co., 45 Wall Street.
Auditors — Messrs. Lindsay, Jamieson, & Haldane, C.A.
Secretary — Charles D. Menzies.
Office— 123 GEORGE STREET, EDINBURGH.
Telegraphic Address-' MENZIES, EDINBURGH.'
r ■'' HIS COMPANY transacts the following business : —
1. Approved Coupons payable in America purchased at current rates.
2. Kailroad and other American Dividends collected, and all kinds of America|
Securities purchased and sold on Commission.
3. Demand Drafts issued on New York.
4. The Company insures against loss Documents of value in course of transmission.
5. The Company has constructed a Safe Deposit Vault on its own premises, in which
there are a number of drawers and safes of various sizes, which are rented to applicants
on terms which may be learned at the office.
April 1900. CHARLES D. MENZIES, Secretary.