TDK DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1809.
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(stdats uointDV
AT TUM JCVMXlXta TLXKjaAJH :BU 'IDINO,
D. IN & THIHD BTBMMt,
Frx U three eenU per eopv (doub iKert);
trtifftUeenoenUprveek,paiabIsto the carrier
tritom iffwl 17M worp(ion price- by maa
If IMfiS aw" w annum, or vn isouar ana
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 18G9.
Mate CUT "m"om and Eipen
dltures.
A BESMvrioir tu passed bj both branohes of
Counolla at tbeir laat session, requesting the
legislators to transfer the revenue derived
from Urern Hocuses and mercantile taxes in
Philadelphia to the City Treasury, instead of
retaining it in the ooffers of the State. This
proposition deserrei the earnest support of
erer Senator and Representative of our tax
ridden ottlMns, and it can be supported bjr so
many oogent arguments, that a proper effort
on their part should seoure its adoption.
The amount of revenue derived by the Com
monwealth from the souroes designated during
the year ending September 30, 18G8, might
easily bo spared from the State
Treasury. It consisted of 1G2,47606 paid
for tavern licenses, and $127,408 31 for
retailers' licenees, or a total of
t'239,884-37. This sum would of itself be an
important annual contribution to the City
Treasury, but if the power was given to Coun
cils to increase at their discretion the amount
derived from the existing licenses, a new city
revenue of from half a million to a million of
dollars could be obtained without imposing a
grievous new burden on a single oitizen.
It is a striking characteristic of the modern
development of our politioal system
that a marked increase in neoessary muni
cipal expenditures has ocourred, while
the neoessary expenses of the State have been
constantly diminishing. Every year adds to
the burdens of city government and diminishes
the real burdens of State government, under
the system which prevails in Pennsylvania.
Before the adoption of the new Constitution,
power was in a large degree centralized at
Harriaburg, in the Legislature and officers of
the State Government, with a corresponding
liability to large expenditures. The
Governor appointed all the judges,
and nearly all leading county officers,
and his exeroised a commanding influence in
many affairs which are now under exclusive
local oontrol. On the other hand, when
money was to be expended it was raised by
' State taxation. When canals and railroads
were to be built, the people of the whole State
were charged with the coat of tkeir construc
tion. The debate on the Free School system
would not have excited such intense interest
if the belief had not prevailed that the chief
portion of the appropriation required to sus
tain it would necessarily be drawn from the
State Treasury, and that corresponding State
taxation would be levied.
Now all this is changed. If roads are to
be built, townahipB, counties, cities, or private
corporations must provide the means to con
struct them. The sum appropriated by the
Legislature to all the free schools of the State
is scarcely half as much as the amount ex
pended for this purpose in Philadelphia alone.
The burden of pauperism and crime falls so
exclusively on local communities, that if the
trifling contribution made by the State for
suoh purposes should be suspended, no per
ceptible inorease in local taxation would bi
neoessary in a single city or county.
The State makes no appropriations system i
tloally, and as a recognized duty, except suoh
as provide for the interest and gradual reduc
tion of the State debt, for legislative and
executive expenditures, for the salaries of
judges, and for the partial support of free
schools, or for charitable and correctional in
stitutions. There is not another State in the Union
which contributes less, in proportion to its
means, to any important object involving the,
general welfare, than the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. Many Illustrations of this
niggardly tendency might be given, but one
will suflloe. The other loyal States assumed
a very large proportion of the war debt arts
ing from the necessity of raising bounties and
providing for the families of volunteers, while
in our Commonwealth the whole of this heavy
burden was thrown upon local communities.
The natural consequence of this policy, ac
oompanied as it is by a greedy retention of
many aouroes of revenue which should only
enrioh treasuries that assume corresponding
obligations, is, that while counties and cities
are sorely pressed by debt and taxation, the
btate enjoys a larger revenue than neces
Bary to defray its legitimate expeadibares
The Legislature is thus subjected to a stand
ing temptation to make extravagant appro
priations. as acts of srace or benevolence, or
under the impulse of more questionable
motives.
Philadelphia, on the other hand, must
pend a great deal of money, and even if the
greatest eoonomy is exercised a much larger
sum will be needed to defray her municipal
expenditures than is required by the Com
monwealth. The citizens of Philadelphia
cannot eaoape the pressure of their heavy war
debt, or the cost of maintaining puimo scnoois,
the polioe, the almshouse, the prison, and
various other expensive departments, and
they should receive all the incidental aid that
the Btate oan safely graut, to enable them to
wppert their heavy burdens.
Kepeolaliy should the revenue from tavern
and mercantile licenses be paid, under the
olroumatanoea, into the City Treasury. The
tardea of paprUm and crime U largely in
f rWi by latanjtrwwc, ajtf ai Utf BKUt
assume this burden, she U olearly entitled In
equity to every dollar paid for tavern lioenset.
In New York thia prinolple Is oleariy recog
nized, and New York olty and adjaoeat dis
tricts derive (and expend mainly for looal
purposes) a revenue of about one million of
dollars per annum from tavern licenses alone.
The same rule could properly extend to the
revenue from mercantile licenses, for obvious
reasons. The elty has inourred large expendi
tures to increase her trade te build railways,
to support ice-boats, and to promote, in many
ways, the interests of her merchants. If they
are to be taxed, as a class, their money should
be given to the governmental organisation
which, in return, makes expenditures for their
especial beneflt.
1 lie S(wd of a Let-nl Rearlstrr Law.
Above all other duties inoumbent upon the
Legislature of our State during its present
session, stands the passage of a juat and legal
registry law. The fearful lessons of the last
election tell us, in language unmistakable, that
if we would preserve the purity of the ballot.
protect the rights of our citizens, and prevent
popular suffrage becoming a popular faroe,
some such law as will require the registration
of voters must be adopted before next
autumn. Thia fact must be Well known to all
the city members, and we urge on them the
conveyance of a like knowledge to the repre
sentatives from other portions of the State.
Let them quote the instanoe of the Fourth
ward, in which more votes were polled than
all the men, women, and children in the
ward, and where over a thousand new voters
appeared between October and November.
Such an example as this will at once oon vines
men the most doubting that, if it is possible
to frame a law whioh will be legal, that possi
bility must be taken advantage of.
We would urge this, not as a party mea
sure, not because we are . Republicans, but
because we are Pennsylvanians, and cannot
forget that while a party may be bene
fited by fraud to-day, the State loses by it
always. If, therefore, such a law can be
adopted, it should be done, and done with
care. In April, 1668, the Legislature passed
a registry law, whioh was deolared unconsti
tutional in July by the Supreme Court.
The act in question was unconstitutional. It
was a badly drafted measure, and evidently
draws up by one who had no real knowledge
of law. But in pronouncing its decision, the
Court gave grounds for hope that while the
bill before it could not stand legal tests, yet
the idea ef such a law was not repugnant
to the Constitution. The learned Judge, in
announcing the decision of the benoh, said:
"We do not mean at this moment to decide
that no constitutional registration law can be
enacted. For myself, I think there might be,
and possibly in such a form as to protect the
lights of all legal voters, and secure the people,
to some extent at least, against the possibility
of frjauds at the ballot-box." It will, there
fore, be seen that if the errors of the old law
can be amended, and just provision made for
the protection of, not the infringement on,
the rights of citizens, we can have an efficient
snd constitutional law. In drafting the new
law, therefore, it is the duty of the authors,
and also of those who have It in charge, to
provide one which will meet the objections of
the Supreme Court. We give to our readers
a clear idea of what were those objections.
We will classify them as nearly as possible:
First. It was provided by the previous law
that all oitizens must appear before a Board
of Canvassers, to be appointed by the Board
of Aldermen, and get registered ten days
before the election. And the canvassers must
put down no name on the registry unless the
person is personally known to them as a bona
jide resident of the division. This, the Court
held, was a qualification not required by the
Constitution. Personal acquaintance with
the canvasser might not be either easy or
desirable, and the law would thus be made
unjust, and Us object be defeated.
Second. After the names were added to the
register, it was made the duty of the
assessors to meet on Saturday night, aud, be
tween the hours of 7 P. M. and midnight,
assess a tax on all the registered citizens. The
Court said that in large wards this would be
an impossibility; that it was a physical objec
tion that interposed and prevented five thou
sand people being assessed in five hours.
Third. When the citizen presented himself
before the canvassers, he was required to make
an affidavit that he had resided in the divi
sion for ten days previous. As this was done
on the tenth day before the election, he would
certainly have had to reside for twenty days
before in the division. As the Constitution
provides that ten days' residence only shall
be necessary, the extra qualification is appa
rent, and is of course contrary to the rights of
the voter, guaranteed to him by the highest
authority of the State,
Fourth. By the same Constitution it is
provided that every citizen who is between
the age of twenty-one and twenty-two shall
vote without previous payment of taxes or
assessment. This was omitted in the law,
and an assessment required of all, whether
they be voting on age or not.
Lastly. Whrle the former law heaped
penalty on penalty on the voter for perjury
or deceit, yet it made no provision whatever
for malfeasance on the part of the canvasser
thus impliedly, if not directly, putting a pre
mium on wrong-doing on Lis part, and vio
lating every rule of juat protection to the
public.
We have thus briefly summed up the
grounds on which the former registry law was
declared illegal. Let them bs beacons to
guide the framers of the much-needed law at
the present session. In the new law great
care must be exercised. There is no time now
for experiments or points of doubtful legality.
We need a law which will be unquestionably
legal and unassallably oonstitutional. So far
as the rest of the State is oonoerned, outside
of Philadelp hie, there mm bo wsmllf .Vr
a stringent law. It is only in the heart of
orowded cities that opportunity offers for suoh
stupendous frauds aa those with whioh we
have been dlsgraoed. In the oountry all are
known, and if there be some cheating It must
be limited. But with as there Is no limit
exoept the wishes of the scoundrels who per
petrate the swindle, and it requires that the
strong arm of a stringent law be laid upon
them to prevent the whole system of elections
matter its early and careful attentien.
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
M V. R M H M " i ... "
YOUNG MKN'H flHRIHTlAN ASWOrATVfW
In ARCH Street, above Tenth, al7H o'oiockT '
' rnnea lor youo men.
"iff iff lUff&Vn'q1. " city are cor-
eomS Uow,n"i v Thee up?" Aliarew!.
FORD Vl Hl(KOH.-Ke. A. L. BLaCK-
iMD. VnWd; W 'Zrl'Xh iTra 'Von4.
tfliS 'AftSl'ir-Si l.PdX,,Mbne
WAR Tr i ii 1-Mt'w, J,0 w rprace.-Ke-. Ii!
borrow iffU'A0" h." c,or" Htrmom To-
vited. ' "" Cr0M Ml P"" cordially in
UCS,T ,i"KtiiosfT, : iinniiii-
HKVMrtTTifSrw? la? ""n""1 by Rov. Dr.O. F.
o'clock Y 0rk To morrw Kvnlu t 7
si mi n ii t incii ma
W.WTT VU 1 I I'M Kn t .
- wmm-m tt wimm rrw irar
J6SS'r?.r B.kK nMi WILT.
t!.. irX ' ' 'a ne alternoou al tLi o'clock la tha
S. i Jii- . ?iKED" D D" w"1 Preach the tenth of
toe terlo ol dUcoune on th Book of Kher To
morrow at lo A. M. (subject, he Deierance?"
Service In the evenlpg at7S. "TrnoB.
BFV sTir a m vsi a
P !I -.!LCoB1IJluulon 10 connection with the morn-
JDS,.E.V-.V?lKK,' WILT,
KvetolioV681' " 8" V"
TAHFNACI.E BAPTIST OHURoI? cfelMSUT
?'rJ"Sh w";of ElSbleenth. Service, at 1& A. M.
ADA 1 7z Ale
jrer- WORTH IKSTH STRF.KT PRl.S
2 JYTBRIAN OliUhCd (below ira?d !
uej.-R?T. MATTHKW NEWKIKK, PMtor.
vine at ln,M and 7S o'clock. All Invited.
ggB- TRINITY M.E.CHIJRflI,R(inTH
S?J '.Street, eoovn Race. Kev. R. w. HUM-
T. it RB NRY at 7S- Btrangera mylted.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
br OddUirmai Special Nona urn Uta TntUi iig.l
T II K
ARABS
AltK
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3 13 St
r55S LECTURE BY REV. A. A. WILLIT3,
fcSy D, p., MONDAY, Fobranry 15. at 7. P. M
belDK the Mret of aCcoune of aix MU8IOAL, AoTO
raiL-u.BV vUl'h'DlU IMiJCUIHI
In the WBJT ARi'H HTRT PR4BYTEBIAN
CHURCH, corner of Klghteenth street, for the beoetil
nr thecborch. Tlckeiafroc.; fr eaie at Clould't, No.
t)3 Chrsuul (treet; Boner s, No. 1104 OhMOiitRtreet,
and at the door each eTenlBg. a U 2t
THE FAESOfl'S WDDIS FEE.
Bome folks lovejokea.
And that la the kind
Of a pair of folks
Juat now in our mind.
A most delightfully happy pair;
alit waa a blorjde. with golden hair,
And whether Afrhalr waa black or red.
Brown or yellow, enough la said
When we state that, with becoming pride.
He brought her along, to make ber hie bridle.
They rang the bell of the paraon'a door,
And waited for half an hour or more,
Till the parson came In, and eDjoyed the fun
of making the two folks Into one.
And when he'd married them, (don't you ate 1)
They took their leave without paying their lee.
And the parson aadly began to grieve
At the profit) egg style of their taking leave.
But, while he's thinking, solemn aa death.
Here runs a boy, all oat of breath;
A boy with a bundle, stout and large.
"Parson," says he, '-that's jour's uo charpe
"That's the weddiug fee.from those happv folks:
"They're fond of fan and practical Jokes."
The parson opeBS the bundle: and lo '.
An elegant suit, from top to toe I
Overcoat, coat, and pants, and all
From HOOK HILL & WILSON'S GREAT
BROWN HALL!
The moot acceptable weddiug fee that can be
given, la a IS A 8Uir OK ROOK HILL & WIL
BON'rJ CLOTHES!
The most desirable thing that any gentle
man, married, single, or contemplating uintrl
mony. can possess. IS A SUIT OK KOCKUILL
fc WILSON'S CLOTHES!
Join the crowd, gentlemen, and push on, for
the balance of the rapidly-going winter stosk.
Outrageously Cheap frloes !
ROCKHILL & WILSON,
Sos. 60S and 606 C1IESNCT STREET,
ORHAT BROWN HALL.
AVISO.
M K U B L E 8 V 1 N O
KN
EXHIBIOION.
In Berle de Cuartos,
OOLOOA.DO
C'OMO
Balas de reolblmlento
CUARTOS liE OAMARA.
CCOnCE J. HENKCL8,
THIRTEENTH AND CHE9NUT,
"hrp PHILADHLPHIA.
w
'"ili S-.iiN. BRICK LAYER, NO.
-my j, Aiii ii n t reef. I ii imrp
s
OARTLANI), UNDERTAKER,
FAPEIl IUNQINQ3. ETC.
howell, Finn & CO.
FFEtt nflNGINGS,
ar
No. 1117 CHE8NUT Street,
UutU completion of their Store,
S. W. Corner NINTH and CUES NUT (;,
PHILADELPHIA. J IS slutbfitlp
The Trade supplied as before the fire.
GROCERIES, ETC."
OOLONG TEA,
Extra Fine Quality.
Just received, of the new crop, aa Invoice of
Ycry Extra Fine (Jualltf Black Tea,
In email boxes of Seventeen and a Half pounds
each. Those wishing a small package or very
fine TEA will find this the beat seen herein
many years. For sale by the box at the LOW
EST WHOLESALE PRICE
8IMGH COLTON & CLARKE,
8. W. Cerner L'KOAD and WALNUT Sts.,
1 8 tulbi PHILADELPHIA
FLOUR.
BANNER MILLS FLOUR
OF
SAINT LOUIS,
We are the exclusive Agents In this city for
these celebrated FLOURS, which we are selling
to the trade at manufacturers' prices.
FOUR DIFFERENT GRADES.
CHICK & CHI8HOLM,
So. 248 SOUTH BROAD STREET,
8 11 tbgtolmrp PHILADELPHIA.
QHOICE FAMILY FLOUR,
Tor the Trade or at Retail.
EVEHT BARBEL WABBANTED.
KEYSTONE FLOUR HILLS,
SOI. 19 AMD 1 OIK1BD AVENUE,
1 1" nirp East ol Front BirecL
FOR SALE-
jQ KOR S ALE M ERC II ANT VI LLK, N.,
J., veiy oealrable new Frame House, j rooms, good
style, bath, hot and cold watr, and all the modern
improvements, with a large front yard and cardan;
easy or access par C. t B. Co. R. R.; frequent trains
leave via Market Btreet Ferry. Inquire of IE. a,
OATTELL. No. m . WHAUVE8, or a; Merchant-v"1-
2 12 tt
WfSr PHILADELPHIA PROPERTIES
FOR BALE OB TO RENT.
The HANDSOME BROWN BTONE RESIDEN
CES, Nos. 4108, 4110, and 41L BPRUCB 8t set,
and OB ICY fcTONE DOUBLE RESIDENCE, Ho.
4119 PINE Stee.
V 3. FELL 4 BKO.,
ilUglothlm No, l'jp ftiiuth FRO XT S rfet.
M FOK SALK ELEGANT COUNTST
acrei large mauaioo: tlx mlla out y
itLti, mo. twi CHEBNCT fciret. ii
TO RENT.
jQ FOR BENT THE rUIKI AND KOURTH
Floors of Building N. W. cornet of TWELVTH
and FILBERT Streets, with r without power. Also,
two Stores on TWELFTH Hireet. Apply to A. H.
MKRSHON. No. liOO MARKET Street, 3 10 tf
f TO LET A LAKGB MODbRV-BUILT
AvA TENANT HOUSE ana lre Mcwtt of Orouni.
laid eutwllh wa'ka aoO Kardeos, inOKKM &5ToVrN.
2 n t
J. ARM4TR0XO.
ft TO BENT HOUSE AND arORE, NU
Apply to J, bERGKANT PRICE,
2 10 6i No. Mil ARCH street.
fpO RENT AN OFFICE SUITABLE FOR A
COAL.
WILLIAM W. ALTER,
LEHIGH COAL,
Also, Lortrerry and Locust Mouutaln.
llciwt, So. 957 Aortli SIXTH Street,
Below Olrard Avenaa IMIMU
Offic,Cor. SIXTH hihi SPRISH GAJSDO.
BEDS, MATTRESSES, ETC.
g O V E R'S PATENT
Combination Sofa Bed
Is decide)? the bestKofa Bed evef Invented. It can
Imj extended from a Bofa Into a handsome Fieucb
BdHtcad. with hair sprint; uiattrrss, lu ten seconds
ol time. It requires no Dum.-rewlnir or deiaobluir. baa
no separation between bu.Jt and seat, no oorde to
break and no hinged loot attached lo the top at Le
back lo support It when down, which la unsale and
liable to net onl of repair. It baa tne conveniences of
a noreau for holding clothing, la easily maoated. and
It la liupot Bible for It to fc-et out ol order,
i'rlce about the same aa an ordinary sofa.
H. F. HOVER,
Owner aud Sole Mauufactiirf r,
1 i tutbttim Ko.tJu .fopth SECOND street,
BOARDING.
A FURNISHED SECOND-STOUY ROOM TO
1 t. wlih board h-iervnce requited. Apply
No. 51MN. ELEVENTH street. t H i '
T NO. 1121 GIUARD STREET MjY BB
obtaloed tarnished and unfurnished rooms for
lvjipg, Board, el0i If desired, j u
jyjAXWELL'5
PREPARED GYPSUftT,
For Whitening and Culorliig Walls,
A BsVAFTlFCL. DDK ABLE & CHEAP ARTICLF
Thf tlyt-sniii g!fs ibe walls a brill !uikIom.w111 not
rnb off, and Is tbcref .r more durabls, la easily m xed
and corns no more tl un the eumuiun Lime, aad ill
tan Urv quaJlties are excellent: It It therefore In
very respect unsurpassed by au think- of tha kind
vet olleied lo the public
Hatllled thai ail wi o tfS It I11 never aaaln use
Lime, tha Inventor would ask y n to study vour in.
lereat by giving ibe tirjieum a trial i
Orders rn:elv, d for applying the Myelin. Partlcu
ar alteailou paid lo farlor and Hiore Ceiiimro.
V" 1:m. FffTu'K1tv AaaUei'''''-
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D. O R K 0 O K Y, A. M.
CLAISHIOAL AND KWULIriH BCHOoL.
No. 11U8 M ABKKT BlreeL 1 2 lm
K LOCUTION TAU(3IIT AND STAMMERING
cored by H, U aOAMS No 1MOI MAHTKIt
tMU ViKHt TlV1l aadrH laQati aUoii
INSURANCE.
INSURANCE COHPAtf?
NO. m CUXSMJT 8XBEET.
Philasklphia, nary U, lsss,
Thia Dora pan y, Incorporated n 1S5, aad
doing PIRK IN8URANCE BU8INE8S RX
CLU8IVKXY, Da order to enable It to aooept a
Urge amount of business cons tan Uy deelloed
for want of adequate capital, will, la aooorr).
aaoa with m supplement to IU charter, ta
crease 1U
CAI'ITaL STOCK FROM 9100,000, It,
present amount, to
2 0 0,0 0 0,
In Shares of Fifty Dollars Each,
And for whioh subscription books are aow
open at this offioe.
Uy order of the Board of Dlreotors.
CHARLES RICHARDSON,
PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM He RHAWN,
VIOE-PBXSLDKirr.
WILLIAMS I. OLANCHARD,
I80ptr . BKOBBTABT.
gTATBMENT OF TIIK CONDITION OF THS
NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF THl
United States of America,
ON DECEMBER 31,
As submitted to tia Auditor General of Penn
sylvania, lor five months, ending December 3L
ie8, Inolualve,
Capital Stock.... $1,000 000 W
Amount ol Assessments or instal-
ments on Stock paid in cash...... 1 ooo 000 oa
Number of 8 bares T 10.000. Far Taiue '
100. Market value Siio.
ASSETS.
Cash on hand and on deposit ltm 73
Cash in hands of Agents in course of
transmission... 33,928-W
Amount or Loans aeeured by Bonds
and Mortgages, constituting first
lien on Real Ktate.. . 30.000 00
Amount of Blocks owned by tbe Com
pany: .
Par. Market vatue,
V. 8. Pacincs 6 per cent...J2O0.000 10.000 O0
Virginia State Bonds 0
percent 85.000 17.50000
Amount of Stocks held by tbe Com-
pany as collateral seourlty lor
Loans:
Jy, 3Jw ket mluc. Amount loaned.
A.79'!'?3: . 91 m2 ,0- 7 i.ooo oo
Acoi ued Interest not yet due...... .. $i;fo 00
I.1. H. Internal 1 in venue Htauipa 200 00
Deferred Premiums .. 02.00000
l,140,43-ft7
Amount of Cash Premiums reeelved. 1171201-66
Amount of Interest received from Iu- .
vestments 28,781-58
oo,saga
Amount of surrendered Policy..' 175 n
Amount of Kzpenses paid during the
year, Including Commissions and
fees paid to Agents and Officers
of the Company 73,815 81
Amount of Losses due and unpaid
Amount of Taxes paid by the Com-
pany.................... 2.0S8-6S
Amount of ail other Expenses and
Expendlturta 75.0HHI
8149,201-kl
State pf Pennsylvania, County of PnUadel
pbia, sa.:
Be it remembered tbat on this third day of
February, A. D. JotV, before the suosoriber. a
Notary Public in and for tbe U'.ate of Pennsyl
vania, duly commissioned and authorized by
the Governor of t be Htate of Pennsylvania to
take the acknowledgment of deeds and other
writings to be used and recorded in theaald Slate
of Pennaylvania, and to administer oatbs and
affirmations, personally appeared C H. Clark
Prealdent of tbe National Life Iuauranoe Com
pany of tbe United States of Amerloa. and
made oatb tbat tbe above la a true statement of
the condition of nald National Life iuauranoe
Company of the United states of America udobI
the 3lst day of December, A. D. 18087 P
And I further certify tbat I have made per
wnal examination of tbe condition of said
National Life Inaurance Company on this day
and am aatlMfled tbat they have asaeta safely
invested to the amount of adoo.ooo. That I have
examined the securities now In the hands of
tne Company, hs set forth In the annexed
statement, and the same are of tbe value repre
sented In the statement. I further certify that
I am net Interested In the analis of said Com
pany. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
n n an ffj aa wi t aa fri w vt arw n. m .ia . , .
uiiiuiui aeai, iuis tniru
day of Fsbiuttiy. A. D. 169. "
o,wn,Mt WluUAM J.DELLEKER.
2 13tuthlt Notary Public
METROPOLITAN
tIFE IXSIHANCE COMPANY,
o. 243 BROADWAY, New York.
JAMES R. I)OW.,. ...Preaiaent
Januaby 28, 1869. '
The Board of Directors have this day deolared
A Cash DlTMend r Flff j Per Cent,
On the annual premium rate of all Participat
ing Life Policies, and FORTY PER CENT, on
the annual endowment rale of all Participating
Endowment Policies Issued In the year 1867.
E. H. JONES, Vloo-President.
' BRANCH OFFICE,
No- 429 CHESNUT Streot.
J. 8. GAFFKEY,
M tbatnat GENERAL AGENT.
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