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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[March 
Twenty-Ninth Annual Report 
Hew York Life 
Insurance Co. 
OFFICE : 
346 and 348 Broadway. 
JANUARY 1, 1874. 
Amount of net cash nsscts, Jan. 1, 1873. $21,574,842 70 
INCOME. 
Premiums and annuities $6,131,52133 
Interest received and accrued 1,418,094 83—7,519,616 -Jl 
(29,124,458 97 
DISBURSEMENTS. 
Losses bv death $1,416,123 01 
Dividend.* and returned premiums 
on canceled policies 2,:>44,305 33 
Life annuities, matured endow- 
ments, and reinsurance 82,629 13 
Commissions, brokerages, and 
agency expenses 145,882 yi 
Advertising and physicians' lees 115,593 67 
Taxes, office, and law expenses, sal- 
aries, printing, revenue stamps, 
etc 259,045 57 
4,603,579 65 
$21. 130.819 32 
ASSETS. 
Cash in Trust Company, iu bank, 
and on hand $1,661,5'., Ba 
Inve-ted in United States, New 
York State, and other stocks 
(market value, $1,037,320 24) 4,850,195 20 
Real estate 1 ,768,174 14 
Bonds and mortgages (secured by 
real estate valued at f44.d00.ot ; 
buildings thereon insured for 
over $13,700,000, nntl the policies 
assigned to the Company as addi- 
tional collateral security) 14,135,265 23 
LoanB on existing policies (the re- 
serve held by the Company on 
these policies amounts to $4,052,- 
419 96) 962,112 9S 
Quarterly and semiannual pre- 
miums due subsequent to Jan. 1, 
1874 .. ... 563,36583 
Premiums on existing policies in 
course of transmission and collec- 
tion (estimated reserve on these 
Eolicies, $800,000, included iu lia- 
llttics). .. 287,936 34 
Amounts due front agents 26,459 77 
Interest accrued to Jan. 1, 1874 175,831 98 
24,130,879 32 
ADD. » 
Excess of market value of securities over cost. £87,125 04 
Cash assets, Jan. 1, 1874 $24,518,004 36 
APPROPRIATE!! AS FOLLOWS: 
Adjusted losses due subsequent to 
Jan. 1,1874 271,055 00 
Reported losses, awaiting proof, 
etc 201.71500 
Reserved for reinsurance on exist- 
ing policies Insuring $i.'.'.594,- 
273 20, participating Insurance i at 
4 per cen'", Carlisle net premium); 
and $1,078,113 65 non-participating 
<at 5 per cent, Carlisle net pre- 
mium).. 22,087,449 38 
Dividends outataudlng 208,630 57-22,775,149 95 
Divisible surplus $1,742,554 41 
From the undivided surplus of $1,742,554 41 the Board "1 
Trustees has declared a reversionary dividend, available on 
aettlement of next annua] premium to participating policies, 
proportioned to titolr contribution to surplus. 
The cash value of such reversion may be used iu settle- 
ment of premium, if the policy-holder so elect. 
During the year 8,834 policies have bceu Issued, insuring 
*26,6il,0O0. 
STEKS : 
OKORGE A. OSGOOD, 
HENRY BOWERS, 
CHARLES L. ANTHONY, 
SANFORD COBB, 
EDWARD MARTIN. 
EDWIN* IIOYT, 
II. B. CLAFLIN, 
WILLIAM H. BEERS. 
.1. F. SEYMOUR, 
CORNELIUS R. BOGERT, M.D. 
FRANKLO, 
President. 
WILL, I ill II. KEEKS. 
Vice.Pres. and Actuary. 
TKEeDOEK M. BANTA, Cashier. 
D. O'DELL, Superintendent of Agencies. 
CORNELIUS R. BOGERT. M.D., and GEORGE WILKES, 
M.D.. Medical Examiners, 
-CHARLES WRIGHT, M.D., Assistant Medical Examiner. 
TUTU 
MORRIS FRANKLIN, 
DAVID DOWS, 
ISAAC C. KENDALL, 
DANIEL S. MILLER, 
HENRY K. BOGERT, 
JOHN MAIRS, 
WM. II. APPLETON, 
ROBEItT B. COLLINS, 
WILLIAM BARTON, 
WM. A. BOOTH, 
ItlOKKIS 
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