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*UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
CONY,
No. 8, WATERLOO- LACE PALL-MALL, LONDIN,
THE SEVENTH GENERAL MEETING OF PROPRIETORS.
The Meeting of the Shareholders was held in the Office of the
LCompany No• 8, a W terloo pl. ce London, on Friday, the 9th
ab', IB4i.
`l-4-NANEL DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman of the Board of
Dkectors, in the Chair.
The annual report of the receipts and disbursements of the Com-
pany, to the 31st December, 1846, and of the amount of their funds,
arid also the report prepared by the Auditors of the Company of the
Slccurttcy of the accounts of the Company, having been in terms of
the Deed of Settlement laid before the meeting and read, they pro-
" 00, as required by that deed, to the election of four Directors and
Otte Auditor, in the room of those retiring at the Annua, Meeting.
_ The Meeting then elected by ballot, as required by the Deed of
settletnent, Mr. D. Q. Henriques, of Woburn-square, to be one of
the Directors of the Company, in the room of the late Edward
t sq.
llExaterEs being present, declared his acceptance of a seat
lit the Board, and offered his thanks to the Meeting for the honour
they had done him.
The report of the receipts and disbursements to the 31st of
December, 1846, having, on the motion of Mr. M. D. Lisno,
• Seconded by Mr. T. CURTis, been received and approved,
Mr. DE CASTRO expressed his gratification and that of the
4filrectors, that they were able to announce a very favourable con-
tinuation of the successful progres; of the Company during the last
Year, the annual income at the present period amounting to 92,0001.,
a stun exceeding by 8,000/. their income at the annual meeting last
year. The expenditure of the Company during the last year was
ess by 4,000/., than duri-g that which preceded it ; so that upon the
Whole the affairs of the Company were at present in a most flourish-
situation. The returns from the agencies of the Company had
been very satisfactory, although at Dublin, Cork, and Glasgow, and
other places where fever hid been prevalent, very many proposals
had necessarily been declined which In ordinary circumstances
Would have been accepted, the premiums front which would have
increased their income. He was glad to be able to repeat the state-
ment made on former occasions, teat the number of deaths of those
assured since the formation of the Company was greatly less than
the number provided for by the well-known tables of the Equitable
Society of London. He hoped he might be allowed to ascribe this
result to the caution of the Directors, as well as to the caution and
discrimination of Mr. Hale Thomson and the other medical officers of
the Company.
114. Dg CASTRO stated, that the Directors had every reason to
anticipate that the divisions of profits, among those holding Assur-
,anc,_es at the participating rate, and to the Proprietors, on the Ist
LO.January 1848, would be of a favourable character. The declara-
tion of this division would of course, be made at their next Annual
sleeting in July 1848.
It was his painful duty to remind the General Meeting of the me-
lancholy event, which had happened soon after their last Annual
Meeting, in the month of August, 1846, the death of their late Be-
als:lent Director, Mr. Edward Boyd, of whom it is but justice to state,
that it was to his unexampled zeal, and to the extraordinary parse-
'teXatsce which distinguished him in the discharge of his duty to
noe Company to the last day of his life, that its present high post-
;Z is mainly owing. The Board have every reason to believe,
'"at in Mr. Lennox Bo) d, the son of Mr. Boyd, whom they ap-
point to succeed him, they possess the individual best calculated to
811 hiedplace, of long experience in the business of the Company,
Well
acquainted with the duties required of him, and most anxious
to DrOinote its Interest.
Mr. STUART was, he said, sure that the meeting, after what they
had heard, would agree with him in approving the rotation,
teste-
a,.'h by th deed of settlemet, in treiremen and eleioa f
ne Directorse of the Company, n
which had t to-day, at their Annual
Keeling, placed in the chair Mr. De Castro, who is so thoroughly
Weil informed in their affairs. Ills explanation of the progress
" pang, during the last year, had been so clear and satisfactory
. atly to have lett bins, who had hitherto akevery annual meeting
auresaed a few words to them, nothing to say. Hs_ could not, how-
ever, take his seat again without joining their worthy Chairman in
eaPvessing his deep regret on account of the lamented loss they had
,sustained since their last meeting, of Mr. Boyd, the founder of the
"anpany. Slaving been one of the original Proprietors, and a Di-
rector from its commencement in March, 1534, to the present day,
no one had possessed better-opportunities of being acquainted with
Mr. Boyd's indefatigOle exextions to form and establish the Com •
Parry, which could not have been surpassed, and which, without a:1
doubt, led to its present prosperity. He was devoted to the Company
and to its establishment and success to the day of his death. Many
of those present must recollect 11.iis being carried 'to the table at the
last annual meeting, although suffering under acute illness without
any hopes or recovery, and taking a share in the business of the
day, but a very few weeks before his decease. Fortunately for the
Company, his son, Mr. Lennox Boyd, who was first, la 1838, Se-
cretary, and afterwards one of the Directors had been able to
give his father most useful assistance during his long indisposition.
The Directors, fully aware of the experience he had thus acquired,
•and of his intimate acquaintance with the details of the office, una-
nimously appointed him to succeed his father as Resident Director
er Manager of the Company; and though speaking under restraint
in his presence, he was hound to add, that Mr. Lennox Boyd's assi-
duity, and the ability which he had shown throughout, most fully
Justified the appointment. These are not, Mr. Stuart said, mera
Words of course, they are uttered by one who is for some time every
day, unless when absent from London on official duty, in the office
of the Company, and who never fails to find Mr, Lennox Boyd there
at the head of the establishment, and superintending every part of
He could not appeal to better evidence that the management has
not suffered from being committed to him, than is established by this
fact, vouched by the books, that in the last six months, from Ist
January to 30th June, 1847, the amount of new assurances was
greater by 51,513/., and the relative amount of premiums greater by
!.1501., than in the same period from Ist January to 30th June, 1846;
the sums assured in the six month in 1846 being 145,2341., and pre-
hdunis 4,6361., and in the same six months in 1847, 196,7471. and
7,386/.

Mr. STUART added, that it was also very agreeable to him to men-
tion, that he heard, in all quarters, from those who had to transact
business at their office, of the courtesy and attention shown them,
and of the dispatch they met with; and that he was himself a daily
witness of the regularity and correctness wi;h whlch,the office itself
is conducted and superintended.
Mr. LENNOX Born felt it to be his duty, after what had been said,
to assure the Meeting of his earnest desire to contribute, in every
Way in his power, to the promotion of the interests of the Company;
and requested them to believe that he would give the most scrupu-
lous attention to the management of the Establishment.
The CHAIRMAN having expressed his readiness fo afford any infor-
ination or explanation respecting the Company's affairs not commu-
nicated in the statements and documents laid before the Meeting,
Mr. M. D. LINDO inquired, whether a party, having insured on the
Participating scale, alive on let January, 1848, but dying before the
next declaration of profits in July 1848, would participate in the next
alvlsion ? Mr. DE CASTRO answered the question in the affirmative,
Provision being made for all alive on let January, 1848, although
the
declaration of the amount of profits to be divided is not to be
'WI" in terms of the Deed of Settlement until the following month
Of July.
J. G. llENatquzs also inquired, whether the Bonus to Pro-
-°;.lietors would be paid in cash, or added, as an increase, to the value
_ their shares ? Mr. DE Cisme. referred to the 68th Article of the
h7ed of Settlement, which expressly declared, that the Bonus is to
aDlropriated for the benefit of the Proprietors according to the
Rittnt, °nut of their shares, and as an increase in the value of their
h'ates, and to c interest at 4 per cent., so that there could be no
vantient of the Boynus itself in cash.
uThe thanks of the Meeeting were afterwards, on the motion of Mr.
7_• 12). LINDO, Mr. J. G. Ilexarques, unanimously offered
the Directorsof fortheir great zeal and attention in the management
the affairs of the Company; and on the motion of Mr. LINDo,
say.l,4ledbY Mr. J.W. SUTHERLAND, the thanks of the Meeting were
the
chair
r mously vQtcd to Mr. DE Cana° for ,his able conduct in
*
July to, 1817. '=

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-UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
r,eor COMPANY.—% -Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97,
"`ge-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow.
Ainracroas.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
RA ES DE CA.STRO, Deputy Chairman.
I;ainuel Anderson, Esq
pa r AVArlie, Esq.
!I Milton 111 i •-. ' P. C. Maitland, Esq.
.11_aLennox ,oyd. Esq., Resident. Willisien Ilitiltun, F,sq.
John Ritchie, Esq.
Charles
Downes, Esq.
• 1 F. 11. Thomson, Esq.
uharles Graham Es
i
This :
t,...., .Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords thcettemc.ossst
;;;,:!st_seettrity in a large paid. up Capital, and in the greats ~,,,,,,,u.
•I„'Fn haa attended it since its commencement in 1834-11 A.
-41,oNta BEING UpWARDS OF 84,000/.
Theln 1841 the Company added a bonus of 21. per cent. per
annum on
'u
u„,o tneY were effectl4nl insured to alldpolicies of the participating class from the
e
tellho bonus added ix) icies from March, 1834 to , the 31st of De-
be'. 18", is as follows:
SUrn Aimured. Time Assured Sum added to Policy.
45°°°• ''''' • • •• 6 years 10 months • • • • • • • •.£683 6s. Bd.
snr,'• • • • • •• •.6 years ........600 Os. Od.
50""'• • • • • • .. • .4 years ........400 Os. Od.
00
........ 200 Os. Od.
TI„ • • • • • • • • • • 2 years
tiai„ ' Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
41" one-half ned be paid for the first five years, where the In-
.,aooe is for Life Parties.wishing to secure the benefit of the next
tsien of profits, in 1848, shoud make immediate applic
•f+,,e Entrance Xi eney or chargel except the Policy Stamp.ation.
brorY information will be afforded on application to the Resident
rector 8 ....._....._______, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

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