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Insurance Companies.
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FRIENDLY
INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE.
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER.
INSTITUTED A.D., 1720.
OFFICE No. 48, NORTH BRIDGE STREET, EDINBURGH.
ORDINARY DIRECTORS.
John S. Cunningham, Esq., Banker
John Irving', Esq., W.S.
James Tytler, Esq. of Woodhouselee
Christopher Wood, junior, Esq., Merchant
Andrew Storie, Esq., W.S.
Sir George Clerk of Penicuik, Bart.
John Gray, Esq., Solicitor
John Tod, Esq. of KirkhiU, W.S. ; and
James Haig, Esq. of Bemerside, W.S.
H "HIE TERMS and CONDITIONS of this INCORPORATION are much more favourahlc than
X those of any other similar Institution in Scotland. THREE-FOURTHS of the ENTIRE
PROFITS of the BUSINESS, without any reservation, are scptennially divided amongst the Policy-
holders.
A RETURN OF TWENTY PER CENT was made last year on the whole amount of Premiums
received hy the Incorporation for Insurances current during all or any part of the period from 18'J2
to 1839. The Reduced Rates of Premium are charged, and the business continues gradually and
steadily to increase.
All town risks of the first class, houses situated in the country, as also farm-houses and steadings,
are taken as common Insurances, at Is. 6d. per Cent. At the same rate of Premium, the stock and
crop on any part of the Farm may he Insured in one sum, without the average chaise ; and, if pre-
ferred, the Sum Insured may be allowed to decrease Monthly or Quarterly, whereby a considerable
saving is effected by the Insurer.
Insurances on Farm-Stock and Implements of Husbandry, are now exempt from the payment of duty.
PRINTED PROPOSALS, showing the rates and conditions of Insurance, may be obtained by
applying at the Head-Office, or at any of the Society's Branches.
Friendly Insurance Office, Edinburgh, May 1, 1841.
THE CITY OF GLASGOW
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Glasgow No. 40, St Vincent Place.
Edinburgh No. 19, St Andrew Square.
CAPITAL, £750,000.
THE EDINBURGH BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
James Wallace, Esq.
Donald Home, Esq.
Robert Nasmyth, Esq.
Thomas Syme, Esq.
Robert Blackwood, Esq
Consists of the following Gentlemen : —
George Thomson, Esq.
Robert Ainslie, Esq.
Archibald Home, Esq.
H. Maxwell Inglis, Esq.
William Paul, Esq.
Thomas Scott, Esq., Accountant, Agent and Secretary to the Board,
19, St Andrew Square.
Dr Combe, Dr Spittal, Medical Beferees.
THE Company conducts every Branch of Life Assurance, and on principles and terms to suit the
views of insurers. The Capital is distributed among a highly influential body of Proprietors,
who are themselves bound to Assure in proportion to their Stock, and by whose exertions the Com-
pany has made such remarkable progress as to hold out the most encouraging prospects to Assurers
THOMAS SCOTT,
19, St Andrew Square,