260                    AMERICAN     CENTRAL INS. CO.
AMERICAN CENTRAL INSURANCE COMPANY
St. Louis, Mo.
Home Offlce: 816 OLIVE STREET.
[Incorporated February 1853; commenced business February 1853; admitted
Sept. 17, 1870.]
President, EDW. T. CAMPBELL.               Vice President, W. A. BLODGETT-
Secretary, B. G. CHAPMAN, JR.
CAPITAL STOCK.
Amount of capital paid up in cash ......    ............ $2,000,000 00
Amount of ledger assets Dec. 31 of previous year .......      ... $5,561,172
78
INCOME.
Marine and
Fire.       inland.
Gross premiums ...................... $4,719,757 75     $11,199 64
Deduct gross amount paid for reinsur-
ance, fire, $795.013.73; return premi-
ums, fire, $694,702.31.; marine and In-
land, $106.36 ............ ............. 1,489,716 04     106 36
Total premiums (other than per-
petual) ............. o ........ $3,230,041 71  $11,093 28 $3,241,134 99
Gross interest on mortgage loans .$1,794 00
Gross Interest on* collateral loans                      18,552 24
Gross interest on bonds and dividends on stocks, less
$2,292.53 accrued interest on bonds acquired during
the year          .           .206,687 50
Gross interest on deposits in trust companies and
banks ..914 39
Gross interest from all other sources:
Bills receivable ........... ............    $81 84
Discount on loans .......   ............   1,721 66
Miscellaneous  .........  ..............    278 01
$1,581 51
Less interest on bills payable ....      1,388 88
192 63
Total gross Interest ........... ..............              228,140 76
From  other sources: Unclaimed dividends                                
 30 00
Gross profit on sale or maturity of ledger assets, viz.: Bonds ..      6,292
50
Total income .$3,475,598 2-.
Total footings .$9,036,771 0C
DISBURSEMEN'TS.
-  Marine and
Fire.        inland.
Gross nmrnunt paid nolievbolders for
losses (including $174.476.31 occurring
in previous years) .................... $2,148,480 46  $6,687 74