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LONDON, TiTESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1841.

loved upon all Deposits from the time of payment into the
Bank of the Association.

The Accounts shall be audited yearly.
The original Directors and Auditors shall remain in office
five years; after which time Three Directors and one Auditor
will,retire' annually ; but will be eligible for re-election. Any
vacancy which may occur in the interim, either among the
Directors or Auditors, will be filled up by the remaining
Directors.

A Special General Meeting of Proprietors shall be convened
by public Advertisement in the month of July, 1847, and
afterwards annually, to receive a Report of the progress of the
business of the Company, and an account of such other matters
as the Directors may deem it proper to submit to them.
- The QualifiCation of voting by Proprietors at every Special
and General Meeting shall be according to the following
scale, viz.:—
The Holder of 15 Shares shall be entitled to One Vote.
••• ... Two Votes.
... 50 ••• ••• ••• Three Votes.
100 ... ... Four Votes.

And an additional Vote for every sukequent Fifty Shares.
But no Proprietor shall have a Vote in virtue of any Shares
unless such Shares shall have been at least Six Months in his
or her name, previous to such Special or General Meeting.
Assurances may be effected or 501. and upwards, not only
on the lives of persons resident in the United Kingdom, but
also on the lives of parties resident anywhere within, and even
beyond the limits of Europe, including Foreigner; of all nations
at Rates proportionate to the nature of the risk.

To Naval and Military Officers, at home and abroad, every
facility will be given for effecting Assurances on their lives.
Ladies and others, to whom it may be inconvenient to ap-
pear at the Office, will be visited at their residences by a Me
dical Officer of the Institution.
The business of this Office also embraces Assurances on
Survivarships ; the granting and purchasing of Annuities, im-
mediate, deferred, or Survivorship, the purchase of Contingent
and Reversionary.
.Property ; the endowment _of Widows and
Czullren ; and the advancing of Money, on Annuity, Mort-,
age, and other available Securities.

The annexed Rates of Premium are as moderate as consis-
tent with perfect security. They are constructed on the prin-
ciple of affording to the Assured the option of either securing
a fixed Sum, or of having it increased by a participation in the
Profits.

Assurances may alzo be effected by a single payment, by a
payment for a number of years certain, or by any other mode
as may meet the views of the Assured : and the. Premiums
May be paid either yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, at pro-
portionate Rates.
Attendance w'll be given daily at the Office, from Ten to
Four o'Clock, where Assurances may be effected, and Loan
granted without delay.
No Charge will be made on parties assuring, under the head
of entrance-money, admission-fee, or otherwise, beyond the
Stamps for the Policy.
As the most scrupulous care will be taken at ac time of ef-
fecting the 'A.ssurance, in making all proper inquiries, no As-
surance, when 'once completed, will afterwards be questioned or
disputed, except in cases of manifest fraud or misrepresentation.
Policies assied for bona fide considerations will not become
void by death front suicide, duelling, or the hat* of justice ;
and in cases where Policies shall not have been 'so assigned, a
discretionary power, founded upon the most liberal coniidera-
tion, is vested in the Directors to return to the Widow or Chil-
dren-of the assured the whole, or any part of the Premiums paid.
All Claims or the Company in respect of Assurances will be
paid within three-calendar months after satisfactory proof of
the leath of the party, or immediately after such proof on the
allowance of discount.
ADOLPHUS COURVOISIER, Secretary.
SINGLE LIVES.
TABLE OF RATES OF PREMIUM

For Assuring a Healthy Life for One and Seven Years, and
for the kiliole Term of Life, in the Sum .)f £lOO.

WITH
PROFITS.

Whole Term.

£1 15 3
1 16
1 17 0
1 17-LO
1 18 8
1 19 6

2 0 b
2 1 4
2 2 4
23 5 .
2 4 6

2 5 6
2 6 6
2 7 7
2 8 8
2 9 9

32
33
34
33

2 10 11
2 12 0
2 13 6
2 15 • 0
2 16 6

2 18 6
3 0 3
3 2 3
a' 4 3
3 6 6

3 8 9
3 10 9
3 12 9
3 15 3
3 17 9

3 19 0
4 1 9
4 4 6
4 7 6
4 10 9

52
53
54
55

4 14 9
4 19 0
5 3 9
5 8 9
5 13 9

5 19 3
6 5 6
6 11 9
6 18 3
7 4 6

WITHOUT PROFITS.

One Year.

£0 17 3
O 17 9
O 18 3
O 18 9
O 19 3
`4:l 19 9

1 0 9
1 1 6
1 2 3
1 3 0
'1 3 9

4 6
1 5 3
1 6 0
1 6 9
1 7 6

1 8 3
1 9 0
1 9 9
1 10 6
1 11 3

1 12 0
1 12 9
1 13 6
1 14 3
1 15 0

1 15 9
1 16 '6
1 17 6
1 18 6
1.19 6

2 1 3
2 '2 9
2 4 6
2 6 3
2 7 9

2 9 9
2 11 9
2 13 9
2 15 9
2 17 9

3 1 3
3 5 3
3 9 9
3 14 10
4 2 8

seven Years.

£0 19 9
1 0 3
1 0 9
1 1 3
1 1 9
1 2 3

1 2 9
1 3 3
1 4 0
1 4 9
1 5 6

1 6 3
1 7 0
1 7 9
1 8 6
1 9 3

1 10 0
1-10 9
1 11 6
1 12 6
1 13 6

1 14 3
1 15 0
1 15 9
1 16 6
1 17 6

1 18 6
1 19 6
2 0 6
2 1 6
2 2 6

2 4 3
2 6 0
2 8* 0
2 10 0
2 11 9

2 13 9
2 16 0
2 18 6
3 2 3
3 6 3

3 10 9
3 15 9
4 1 3
4 6 9
4 12 9

Whole Term

£1 11 6
1 12 4
1 13 2
1 14 0
1 14 10
1 15 8

1 16 "
1 17 6
1 18 6
1 19 7
2 0 8

2 1 8
2 2 8
2 3 9
2 4 10
2 5 11

2 7 1
2 8 2
2 9 8
2 11 2
2 12 8

2 14 4
2 16 1
2 17 10
2 19 7
3 1 4

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