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AMICABLE SOCIETY, 



FOR THE 



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SERJEANT'S INN, FLEET STREET, 



INCORPORATED BY 



Charter of Queen Anne, 1706. 



.IS MAJESTY having been graciously pleased, on the 

 Report of the Law Officers of the Crown, further to encou- 

 rage the Plan of this Society, by His Royal Charter, bear- 

 ing date the 12th day of February 1823, authorizing the 

 Extension of the Insurances therein to any number not ex- 

 ceeding 16,000 Persons or Shares, (the number of 8000 to 

 which the Society was limited by the Charter of the 48th of 

 King Geo. III. being then full) — the Directors have now to 

 offer to the attention of the Public, TABLES of RATES, 

 (as annexed) for the INSURANCE of LIVES, at the various 

 Ages from Eight to Seventy-two ; either for the whole of 

 Life ; or any specific number of Yoars ; the contingency of 

 one Person surviving another,* or for the joint-continuance 

 of the Lives of two or more Persons, the Insurance payable 

 on the Death of either. 



INSURANCES in this Office are effected in certain cases at a 

 reduction of nearly 20 per cent, and on the whole on terms greatly 

 favourable to the Insured. 



POLICIES may be effected from ^200 to £5000 ; and every kind 

 of Insurance, however short the continuance, is entitled to a par- 

 ticipation in the pecuniary advantages accruing to the Corporation. 

 These advantages are wholly appropriated to the Benefit of the 

 Insured, in proportion to the amount of each Insurance.* 



TABLES may be had at the Office, where attendance is given 

 from Nine till Three o'Clock. 



By Order of the Court of Directors, 



JOHN PENSAM, Registrar. 



* In the last year (ending 5th April, 182S) Insurances on 148 Shares became Claims. Of 



these 59 having been effected under former guarantees received additions amounting to 60 



J percent. ; 4 Shares 50 per cent.; 3 Shares 41 per cent. ; S Shares S3 per cent.; and the re- 



^ maining 79 Shares, on which the Insurances were effected in 1813 and subsequent years, SO 



