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ROMANCE OF INSURANCE,
CURIOUS OLD-TIME "POLICIES.
Sir Arthur Worley, in his presidential, address before the London Insurance In- stitute, on October 17th, dealt with the origin of insurance and its relation tó commerce. Going back to the earliest maritime States of the ancient world, the islands of Rhodes and Crete, has said they weza.thungcunt curriers in those distant- days; they carried the corn of Egypt and- what is new the modern Crimen to neigh- bouring lands and they had to guaria- tee the safety of the precious cargo, the result of a whole year's toll, otherwise the outlook would be black for the winter and starvation pear. The history of the early form of insurance was far from cloak, but there was little doubt that marine-insurance was the “root” insur ance from which developed fire, life, casualty, and other important sections. If they correctly interpreted Demosthenes, eventually the Rhodians practised "insur- ance in the shape of what was called "Bottomfy
Respondentia Bonds" -that meant that money was advanced on a ship or cargo to be repaid with interest-large interest if the venture prospered, but not to be paid at all if the ship was jost. The rate of interest was made high enough not only, to pay for the use of the capital, but to provide a reserve or sinking fund to pay for possible future losses. The principle of insuranCE, as construed to mcan indemnity and reimbursement, WAS recognised in the time of Hannibal. when Rome and Cathage strove
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mastery of the trade of the Mediterranean; and Livy told how the Roman Senate abeat 250 B.C., undertook to indemnify against all dangers and perils of the seas the merchants who sup- plied the army abroad with food and munitions--perhaps the first authentic record in alstory of the establishinen: of a Government War Risk Department.
"The first policy actually drawn up. in English of which we have record," Sir, Arthur said, "is an insurance on the Sancta-Croiaz-in-1555, in the reign of Queen Mary and her Consort, Philip I of Spain, although the earliest marine policy still extact is one which dates from February, 1657, on the cargo of a London shy the Three Brothers, trading between London and the East Indies. The sum insured was £400, and the subscrib ers were four in number, the rate being £5 per cent. It is interesting to notice that the main provisions of, the policy are identical with those contained in a marine policy of the present day, thus showing how early in its history ther general principles of marine insurance became fixed and established.
Ia 1635, and again in 1839, the citizens of London petitioned Charles I. for a patent of monopoly to insure against fire the houses of the City at 15. for every £20 of rent in return for which favour they undertook to pay £200 every year towards the rebuidling of St. Paul's Cathedral until it was finished Although this pro ject was sheived at the time of the Great Fire, it revived public interest in the scheme, and a private company was formed a few years later to insure pro-" perty at the rate of 2 per cent, of the yearly rent for brick houses and 5 per cent for frame houses.・・・
"In the early part of the eighteenth contury all sorts of insurance propositions were mooted, and, much as we may.pride ourselves to-day upon the range ånd ver. satility of the many forms of insurance, our predecessors were not, by any means doroid of imagination. Among examples of the societies formed at this period we mey instancs the Fortunate Office to provide marriage portions of £200 for those who paid a, a quarter, and an as- surance office for horses dying natural; deaths, stolen, or disabled." We must admire the courage of the founder of the company formed about the time of the South Sea Bubble for insurance- against | lying, death by drinking gin, and against divorce! Even in these days such a cover would doubtless find many ready policy-takers! But the tendency of that day was towards gambling policies, and everything that served the purpose of-s wager was accepted as the basis of "so- called insurance contracts for instance, whether William II. could reduce the city of Namur before a given date, or how long a mistress of a foreign Sovereign would remain in favour. We can read in the Public Advertiser of December eth, 1771, how certain reports of an illness of the Princess: Dowuger of Wales were. only calculated to promote the shameful spirit of gambling by insurance on' lives, This sort of thing brought its own retri. bution, and in 1774 a Gambling Act was passed providing that до insurance should be made where the person on whose account it was made had no in- terest, or by way of gaming or wager. ing."
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