The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-04 00:00:00

NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY,

ESTABLISHED 1808

A T a numerous and highly respectable Meeting of the
.ra. Members of this Society, held at the Assembly-rooms,
in Norwich, on Friday, the 28th January, pursuant to adver-
tisements in the London, Norwich, and other Provincial
Papers,
Lieut.-Colonel JOHN HARVEY, of Thorpe Lodge, Presi-
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dent of the Society, in the Cht;ir,

A Report of the Committee of Directors was read, contain-
ing very ample details of the general state of the Society's
affairs, and proving its present sound and prosperous condi-
tion, evinced by the fact of the steady realization of Profits
on the last five years, at the rate of about £25,000 per annum,
and the ability of the Society now to make a Bonus. In re-
ference to the two proposed Codes of Bye Laws, the Report
observed, " that they were now before the Meeting, to be
" dealt with as the Members saw fit, and it only remained for
" the Directors to assure all who might be present, as also

" the Society at large, that however these Codes of Laws
" might be disposed of, the Members might rely on their
" continued and most zealous attention to the important du-
" ties devolving on them as Directors, appointed under the
" original Constitution of 1808."
It was then moved by PETER LE NEVE FOSTER, Esq.,
Barrister-at-law, London, seconded by the Rev. JOHN BAI-
LEY, Vicar of Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk, and resolved—
" That the Report of the Directors, now read, be received
and adopted, and that the same be circulated in such manner
as they see fit." _

It was moved by EAGLE WILLET, Esq., of Norwich, se-
conded by Mr. WM. BUTCHER, of Norwich, and resolved—
" That as it appears by the Accounts produced to this
Meeting, that the Society possessed on the 30th of June, 1841,
a Surplus Fund of about £168,000, four-fifths of which
would probably exceed in reversion £220,000, it be referred

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to the Directors, to have the requisite calculations made with
the least practicable delay, for the purpose of assigning a
Bonus upon Policies in existence at June 1841, and which
shall be existing at the time such Bonus is declared."

It was moved by Jornq SKIPPER, Esq., of Norwich, and
seconded by Capt. Girling, of Foulsham,
•"Fhat this Meeting dsires to record its opinion of the
sound and prosperous state of this Society—its fullest confi-
dence in the high character and independence of the Direc-
tors, and its conviction of the zeal, ability, and integrity of
the present acting officers."

It was moved by A. A. H. BECKWITH, Esq., of Norwich,
and seconded by the Venerable ARCHDEACON BATHURST,
of North Creake, Norfolk, D. C. L.—
" That it be recommended to the Directors to hold an
Annual General Meeting of the Members of this society in
the month of June, at which the Cash Accounts for the past
year may be exhibited, and the state and prospects of the
Society be considered, and that in all other respects this
meeting is of opinion that the existing deed of Settlement,
under which profits have accrued on the past history of this
Society, to the amount of Eight Hundred Thousand Pounds,
may be safely relied upon for the future good government of
the affairs of this important institution."

Signed,
JOHN HARVEY. Chairman

Mr. RECORDER JERMY, Chairman of the Committee ap-
pointed for preparing new Bye-laws at the General Meeting
held on the 26th of November, 1839, having laid on the table
the Code of Bye-laws so prepared, and the said Code having
been read,
It was moved by A. A. H. BECKWITH, Esq., and seconded
by ROGER KERRISON, Esq., and carried with only two dis-
sentient voices, _

" That the Committee's Code of Bye-laws now produced
and read, having been printed and circulated, and every
Member having had an opportunity of knowing the purport
of such Code, it is the opinion of this Meeting, that the
same is not adapted to the constitution of the Society, and it
is therefore inexpedient that it should be adopted."
The PRESIDENT of the Society (LtxpT.-COL. HARVEY),
then announced that the Directors withdrew the Code of
Bye-laws which they had prepared, conceiving it to be the
most fit course, after the very unequivocal opinion of the
meeting.
It was moved by Mr. ARCHDEACON BATHURST, and car-
ried by acclamation, that the warmest thanks of the Mem-
bers now assembled be given to Lieut.-Colonel Harvey, for
the great firmness and ability he has this day displayed in
presiding over the present meeting.