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The average rate of interest received upon each class of invest-
ments.
The amount of such investment, if any, on which the payment
of interest is in arrears.
The table of mortality, and the rate of interest used in calculating
the premiums.
XIII. The evidence which your committee has obtained, leads them to
believe that some such general statement would be of much greater
utility in enabling the public to come to a correct judgment as to the
condition of the office, than any form of account that could be adopted.
In addition to the above, in the case of proprietary companies, the
amount of subscribed capital should be stated, and also the amount actu-
ally paid up, and how invested.
XIV. It has been teought to the attention of your committee, that the
business of assurance offices is becoming every year of a more varied
character.
XV. This your committee regard as the necessary result of the advance-
ment of the science on which it is based ; but there is a class of business
which some offices have undertaken, viz., that of receiving deposits of
money at interest, which appears to your committee totally inconsistent
with the business of life assurance.
