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_Subscribed Capital, ONE MILLION._
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This Society Presents the Following Advantages:
The Security of a Subscribed Capital of ONE MILLION.
Exemption of the Assured from all Liability.
Premiums affording particular advantages to Young Lives.
Participating and Non-Participating Premiums.
In the former EIGHTY PER CENT. or FOUR-FIFTHS of the Profits are divided
amongst the Assured Triennially, either by way of addition to the sum
assured, or in diminution of Premium, at their option.
No deduction is made from the four-fifths of the profits for Interest on
Capital, for a Guarantee Fund, or on any other account.
POLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY and INDISPUTABLE, except in case of fraud.
At the General Meeting on the 31st May last, A BONUS was declared of nearly
Two Per Cent. per annum on the _amount assured_ or at the rate of from
THIRTY to upwards of SIXTY per cent. on the _Premiums paid_.
POLICIES share in the Profits, even if ONE PREMIUM ONLY has been paid.
Next DIVISION OF PROFITS in 1856.
The Directors meet on Thursdays at 2 o'Clock. Assurances may be effected by
applying on any other day between the hours of 10 and 4, at the Office of
the Society, where prospectuses and all other requisite information can be
obtained.
CHARLES JOHN GILL, Secretary.
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POLICY HOLDERS in other COMPANIES, and intending Assurers generally, are
invited to examine the Rates, Principles, and Progress of the SCOTTISH
PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, the only Society in which the Advantages of Mutual
Assurance can be secured by moderate Premiums. Established 1837. Number of
policies issued 6,400, assuring upwards of Two and a Half Millions.
Full Reports and every Information had (Free) on Application.
*** Policies are now issued Free of Stamp Duty; and attention is invited to
the circumstance that Premiums payable for Life Assurance are now allowed
as a Deduction from Income in the Returns for Income Tax.
GEORGE GRANT, Resident Sec.
London Branch, 12. Moorgate Street.
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PHOTOGRAPHY.--Reduction in Price of French Papers prepared for Mons. Le
Gray's Process. Examination of the Papers, and comparison with the Prices
hitherto charged for the same description, is respectfully solicited; the
most perfect Selection and Chemical Manipulations having been observed,
with a hope that an endeavour to reduce the Cost of this beautiful and
extensively applied Branch of Photographic Art, may secure a portion of
Public Patronage. Canson Frères' Waxed Negative (all spotted or imperfect
sheets rejected), 6_s_ per Quire. Iodized ditto, 8_s_. Sensitive, available
for three weeks, 13_s_.: Size 17½ by 11½, demy folio. Specimens of other
Papers sent Free, between boards, on Receipt of Postage (10 Stamps),
addressed, Prepaid, to
LUKE SAMS, 7. Adelphi Chambers, facing the Society of Arts, Adelphi,
London.
*** Positive Papers, English and Foreign.
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IMPROVEMENT IN COLLODION.--J. B. HOCKIN & Co., Chemists, 289. Strand, have,
by an improved mode of Iodizing, succeeded in producing a Collodion equal,
they may say superior, in sensitiveness and density of Negative, to any
other hitherto published; without diminishing the keeping properties and
appreciation of half tint for which their manufacture has been esteemed.
Apparatus, pure Chemicals, and all the requirements for the practice of
Photography. Instruction in the Art.
THE COLLODION AND POSITIVE PAPER PROCESS. By J. B. HOCKIN. Price 1s. per
Post, 1s. 2d.
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PHOTOGRAPHY.--HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining Instantaneous
Views, and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds, according to light.
Portraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the choicest
Daguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their Establishment.
Also every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used in this
beautiful Art.--123. and 121. Newgate Street.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC CAMERAS.--OTTEWILL'S REGISTERED DOUBLE-BODIED FOLDING CAMERA,
is superior to every other form of Camera, for the Photographic Tourist,
from its capability of Elongation or Contraction to any Focal Adjustment,
its Portability, and its adaptation for taking either Views or
Portraits.--The Trade supplied.
Every Description of Camera, or Slides, Tripod Stands, Printing Frames, &c.
may be obtained at his MANUFACTORY, Charlotte Terrace, Barnsbury Road,
Islington.
New Inventions, Models, &c., made to order or from Drawings.
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