The Tablet 1840
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National loan fund life assurance society

The first annual general meeting of the proprietors in the National Loan Fund Society, for the purpose of receiving the Director's report, electing some Directors, &c. took place on Thursday. It was numerously and most respectably attended. Amongst the proprietors present we observed the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr. Stoddart, the treasurer of the City of Edinburgh; Andrew White, Esq., M.P. for Sunderland; and several gentlemen connected with the Society from Exeter, Bath, Brighton, Bristol, Birmingham, Worcester, Falmouth, Salisbury, Liverpool, &c. T. Lamie Murray, Esq. (the Chairman of the Board of Direction), took the chair.

It appeared from the report, that the original capital of £500,000 of the Society is divided into 50,000 shares. Of this number 18,623 have been disposed of, and the deed of settlement has been executed by the proprietors of 14,659.

The number of policies issued by the Society, including Deferred Annuities, amounts to 1,230, and the aggregate premiums received therefrom amounts to £31,219.19s.7d. The sum received on Immediate Annuities amounts to £21,251.3s.2d., and the present income of the Society is equal to £19,065.8s.9d.

The claims already paid by the Society on five policies amounts to £1,800, and the sum received on short and lapsed policies, upon which no claim can accrue, amounts to £1,571.1s.9d. It is upon these results, so early exhibited in favour of the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, that the directors have ventured to anticipate for the future steady and prosperous results.

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND, LIFE ASSURANCE, AND DEFERRED ANNUITY
SOCIETY, 26, Cornhill, London.
CAPITAL, £500,000
EMPOWERED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT

DIRECTORS T. Lamie Murray, Esq. CHAIRMAN
J. Elliotson, M.D. F.R.S.
John Rawson, Esq.
H. Gordon, Esq.
Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq.
Joseph Thompson, Esq.

AUDITORS Dr. Olinthus Gregory, F.R.A.S.
Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S.

ACTUARY W.S.B. Woolhouse, Esq. F.R.A.S

By the new principles of Life Assurance and Deferred Annuities, founded by this Society, such immediate advantages are secured to the assured themselves, that the moral obligation of all classes of making a provision for a family or for old age is largely enhanced.

The details of the principles of the Society, its improvement in the system of Assurance, its economical arrangements in favour of the assured, its extensive Tables, &c. will be founded in the Prospectus, which may be obtained at the Office of the Society, 26, Cornhill, London, or at any of its Branches throughout the country.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

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LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS DISTRICT NEW CHURCH ERECTION FUND
UNDER THE SANCTION OF THE RIGHT REV. DR. GRIFFITHS, V.A.L.D.
PATRON
HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF SARDINIA
The announced DEJEUNE will take place at LOVEGROVE'S WEST-INDIA
DOCK TAVERN, Blackwall, on THURSDAY, may 21st 1840.
DANIEL O'CONNELL, Esq., M.P., in the Chair
STEWARDS
THE EARL OF NEWBURGH
The Lord CAMOYS - C. Innis, Esq. The Lord STAFFORD - D. Lee, Esq.
The Lord CLIFFORD - F. Lucas, Esq.
The Hon. C. LANGDALE, M.P. - The Rev. Wm. Kyan.
The Hon. C. CLIFFORD, - F. McDonell, Esq.
The Hon. E. PETRE, - C. J. Pagliano, Esq.
The Rev. Dr. BALDACCONI, - E. Riddell, Esq.
P.H. HOWARD, Esq., M.P. - H. Riddell, Esq.
C. Addis, Esq. - F. Riddell, Esq.
H. R. Bagshawe, Esq. - H. Robinson, Esq.
J. Barelli, Esq. - J. Gage Rokewode, Esq.
H. Barnwall, Esq. - J. Roskell, Esq.
H. De Bruyn, Esq. - J. Selby, Esq.
The Rev. W. O'Connor - Sergt. Shee
J. A. Cooke, Esq. - C. Stapleton, Esq.
C. Clifford, Esq. - Jos. Tempest, Esq.
J. Dolan, Esq. - Ant. De la Torre, Esq.
J. A. Douglas, Esq - Wm. Ullathorne, Esq.
Wm. Gibson, Esq. - J. Walker, Esq.
The Rev. J. Hearne. - C. Weld, Esq.
John Hercy, Esq. - Wm. Witham, Esq.
C. Hodges, Esq. - J. Wright, Esq.
Breakfast on the Table at Three o'clock. A Steamer will leave Hungerford Market, calling at London Bridge, at Two o'clock.
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P. G. HEATLEY, Hon.Sec.
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