lost Policies,

or relating to tion to any Policy or Policies in the said Society which shall be lost, or pretended to be lost; and for which application shall be made in order to have new Policies made out in exchange for the same; and also to examine upon Oath such Persons as shall be appointed, from time to time, to audit the Accounts of the said Corporation, if such Persons will voluntarily take such Oath.

and may exa

mine on Oath

the Persons audit the Ac

appointed to

counts.

Monies of the
Corporation

not to be lent

but on land or

Government

cept Monies

III. And of Our further especial Grace, certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, We have likewise granted, declared, ordained, and directed, and do hereby, for Us our Heirs and Successors, grant, declare, ordain, and direct, that no Monies, of or belonging to the said Corporation, shall at any time hereafter be lent or placed out Security, ex- upon any other security than land or Golent on Claims.vernment security, except the Monies usually advanced or lent upon Claims, before such time as the same shall respectively become payable; and that all Claims to be made out of the Monies appointed to be annually divided by the said recited Charter or Letters Patent shall, from time to time, be paid as of the current Year wherein such Claims shall be made appear to be due, and be allowed of by the Directors out of the Monies to be divided for that Year, and not otherwise.

Claims to be paid as of the

Year wherein

they shall be

allowed.

their Nomi

IV. And whereas by the said Charter the Members of the said Corporation are obliged to pay certain annual sums therein mentioned, by quarterly Payments; and in regard it is impossible that the yearly dividends to Claimants can be made, or the said Corporation subsist, if the Members or Contributors thereof are suffered to let their Contribution-money run in arrear without being subject to a forfeiture or exclusion for such their defaults: We have therefore further granted, declared, ordained, and directed, and do by these Presents, for Us our Heirs and Successors, grant, declare, ordain, and direct, that all Members and Members, their Nominees who shall be in arrear in nees, Executors, &c. five his or their quarterly Payments or Contri- Quarters in butions for the time or space of One Year Arrear to be and One Quarter of a Year, and their respective Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, shall be absolutely excluded from all benefit or advantage from or by virtue of any such Policy or Policies in the said Society. Provided always, that no such forfeiture shall be incurred unless public notice shall first have been given in the London Ga- on three zette of the Sum so in arrear, and that if in the London Gazette. the same shall not be paid within the space of Three Calendar Months after the publication of such Gazette, such forfeiture will be incurred; nor unless defaults shall be made

excluded,

months' notice

be valid in Law

in the Payments thereof before the end of the said three months.

V. And lastly, We do hereby, for Us our Heirs and Successors, grant unto the said Corporation and their Successors, That these our Letters Patent, or the enrolment or exemplification thereof, shall be in and The Patent to by all things good, firm, valid, sufficient, notwithstand and effectual in the Law, according to the ing Defects. true intent and meaning thereof, notwithstanding the not fully or duly reciting the said recited Letters Patent, or the Date thereof, or any other omission, imperfection, defect, matter, cause, or thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof, in anywise notwithstanding. In Witness whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent.

Witness Ourself at Westminster, the
Sixteenth Day of January, in the
Third Year of our Reign.

BY WRIT OF PRIVY SEAL,

COCKS.

AN

ADDITIONAL CHARTER.

(8th May 1790, 30th Geo. III.)

GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. Whereas the Corporation Recital of original Charter. called by the name of The Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, hath by Petition humbly represented unto Us, that upon the humble Petition of divers Persons therein named to her late Majesty Queen Anne, setting forth, that they had agreed upon and entered into a voluntary Society for the mutual benefit and interest of every Person that should at any time be a Member thereof, in order to provide for their Wives, Children, and other Relations, after a more easy, certain, and advantageous method than any that had been thought of; and upon its being certified to her said Majesty

that the design would be of singular Use and Relief to many Families, by providing for great numbers of Widows and Orphans who might probably be otherwise left wholly destitute of a maintenance, her said Majesty was graciously pleased, by her Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster the Twenty-fifth day of July, in the Fifth Year of her Reign, to incorporate and establish the Persons therein named, and all and every other Person or Persons who should be admitted to be a Subscriber or Subscribers to the said Perpetual Assurance Office, according to the directions therein contained, not exceeding Two Thousand Persons in the whole, to be and be called one Body Corporate and Politic in Deed and in Name for ever, and to have perpetual succession by the name of The Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, together with several Powers, Privileges, Liberties, and Authorities in and by the said Letters Patent granted and particularly specified, as by the same may more fully and at large apRecital of pear. And also, that upon the Petition of Supplemental Charter. the Society to his said late Majesty King George the Second, setting forth, that the said Corporation had ever since been a subsisting Body, and to the best of their endeavours had acted under and in pursuance of the said Letters Patent, and had made im