SCOTTISH PROVIDENT INSTITUTION

with those of any existing company.

In this Society the whole profits are divisible among the

policy-holders, who are at the same time exempt from personal

liability. It claims superiority, however, over other mutual

offices in the following particulars.

1. Premiums at early and middle ages about a fourth lower. See

specimens below.(*)

2. A more accurate adjustment of the rules of premium to the

several ages.

3. A principle in the division of the surplus more safe,

equitable, and favourable to good lives.

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