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ADVERTISEMENTS.
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
CAPITAL— £2,000,000, IN 100,000 SHARES OF £20 EACH.
WESTERN BRANCH OF SCOTLAND,
Commekcial Bank Buildings, Gokdon Street, Glasgow.
THOMAS FRAME, Local Manager.
FIRE.
The City Article of the London Times, of the 24th July last, states
that the transactions of the Royal Insurance Company ' ' appear to
have been of a perfectly satisfactory character." It includes the
following statements confirmatory of that opinion : —
PREMIUMS.
The Premiums of Nine Offices enumerated are stated to
be £824,924
Of which the Royal alone amounts to 371,957
being 82 per cent, of the accumulated Premiums of the remaining
Eight Companies.
The following Figures show the large transactions of the Company
in the Year 1855 alone : —
Fire Premiums and other receipts, - - - £149,812 13 7
Losses, Expenses, and Dividend, - 131,684 13 8
Balance as a reserve from One Year's transactions
alone, 18,127 19 11
Funds in hand, without including ample Reserve
for Life Liabilities, - - - upwards of £400,000
T T F F
LARGE BONUS DECLARED 1855,
AMOUNTING TO £2 PER CENT. PER ANNUM ON THE
SUM ASSURED, being, on ages from Twenty to Forty, 80 per
Cent, on the Premium.
PERIODS OF DIVISION— EVERY FIVE YEARS.
PERCY M. DOVE, Actuary and Manager.
AGENCIES.
nnmww ( Messrs R. JAMIESON & Co.
GREENOCK, --.- | ^ M'ARTHUR & BINNIE.
Dunoon, Mr R. M'Leod, Hafton Place.
Dumbarton, - - - Mr J. Robson, Commercial Bank of Scotland.
Glasgow, ---. Mr Wm. "Wardlaw, 62, Buchanan Street.
Do., - - - - Mr ¥m. Urquhart. 29, St Vincent Place.
Do., .... Mr J. Cree, jr., 21, Royal Exchange Square.
Do., - - - - James Stevin, 82, West Nile Street.
G sontowT d HU - Ch - e " } Mr G ' Hod S es ' Westem Bank 0f Scotland -
Helensburgh, - - - Mr Alexander Breingan, Merchant.
Innellan, - - - - J. Turner, House Agent.
Inverary, - - - - Mr Napier Campbell, Sheriff-Clerk-Depute.
Lochgilphead, - - - Dr John Hunter.
Rothesay, - - - - Mr James M'Indoe, Merchant.