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Excerpt from Proposals of the Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company: To Make Insurance on Lives, to Grant Annuities on Lives and in Trust, and Endowments for Children, August 18, 1823 Every person desirous of making insurance on his own life, or upon the life of any other person, or who wishes to contract for rever sionary payments on annuitiesfi must sign a declaration by himself or agent according to a printed form to be furnished by the Company, setting forth the age, occupation, place of birth, state of health, and other circumstances attend ing the life or lives insured, or the life upon the failure of which the reversionary payment of the annuity is to commence. The Compa ny may also require a certificate of the health of the person from a physician of established reputation. An application for an annuity on a life must state the age of the party to whom it is granted. Any misrepresentation in these declarations vitiates the contracts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.