Addresses as President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of the United States: On Several Occasions, 1871-76 |
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Addresses As President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of the ... Henry Augustus Oakley Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2013 |
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action adopted AGGREGATE amount apparatus auxiliaries AV'GE PREM AVERAGE RATE Board of Fire Boston buildings business of Fire capital carrying cent centage chemical engine Chicago Chicago fire company quarters deposit laws dividends duty engine houses Executive Committee feet of hose fire alarm Fire Department fire extinguishers Fire Insurance FIRE LOSSES PAID FIRE PREMIUMS RECEIVED Fire Underwriters Foreign Companies four gallons Gamewell gentlemen hazards hook and ladder horse hose hose carriage hose companies hydrants important inch pipe INSURANCE COMPANIES insurance interests ladder companies ladder truck laws located National Board OAKLEY officers operations ordinary condition organization panies past Percentage of Fire permanent permanent men places present President profit pumping rates of premium reel reservoir Room salvage corps secure steam engines steam fire engine Street supervising agents TABLE telegraph tion twelve 12 wrt'n York City YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY York State Companies
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Сторінка 17 - States, shall be assessed and taxed on the value of their shares of stock therein; said shares shall be included in the valuation of the personal property of such stockholders in the assessment of taxes in the tax district where such bank or banking association is located, and not elsewhere, whether the said stockholders reside in said tax district or not.
Сторінка 18 - ... as shall be necessary to pay any taxes assessed in pursuance of this act, until it shall be made to appear to such officer that such taxes have been paid.
Сторінка 18 - For the purpose of collecting such taxes, it shall be the duty of every such bank, or the managing officer or officers thereof, to retain so much of any dividend or dividends belonging to such stockholders as shall be necessary to pay any taxes levied upon their shares of stock, respectively, until it shall be made to appear to such bank or its officers that such taxes have been paid...
Сторінка 14 - ... for the flames. Under the same condition of things, it would have been impossible to prevent an American city from being wholly destroyed. The President of the National Board of Underwriters, in his address at the opening of the Annual Convention of the Board, on the 23d of April last, said : — " Owners of property, builders, and architects alike seem to have been wilfully blind to the immense risks they were imposing upon property by the modern style of building, which, without even beauty...
Сторінка 4 - ... the following resolution: "Resolved, That a Committee of five be appointed by the chair, to...
Сторінка 15 - We can do much to shape legislation that would benefit not only our own interests, but the whole country, by securing such wise and salutary laws as might prevent the recurrence of other destructive conflagrations.
Сторінка 17 - no tax shall hereafter be assessed upon the capital of any bank, or banking association, organized under the authority of this State or of the United States ; but the stockholders in such banks and banking associations shall be assessed and taxed on the value of their shares of stock therein.
Сторінка 18 - For the purpose of collecting such taxes, and in addition to any other law of this State, not in conflict with the Constitution of the United...
Сторінка 30 - ... themselves. I give its leading points in his own words and with his own arguments : " The occurrence of two such disastrous conflagrations, within so short a period, as at Chicago and Boston, turned the attention of thoughtful underwriters to this question : Is there not some feasible plan whereby the insured can be made safe, and companies can be made strong ? This became almost a vital question to insurance interests. Capital would not insure unless it could be made profitable ; and the insured...