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THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

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THIS WORK is,

With all GRATITUDE and RESPECT,

INSCRIBED,

BY

His LORDSHIP'S

Moft obliged, and

Moft obedient humble Servant,

RICHARD PRICE.

PREFACE to the First Edition Page ix
Preface to the Third Edition

CHA P. I.

P. xvii

Questions relating to Schemes for granting Re-

verfionary Annuities, and the Values of Af

Jurances on Lites

CHA P. II.

1

P. I

SECT. I. Of the London Annuity, and

Laudable Societies for the Benefit of Widows.

p. 64

SECT. II. Of the Affociation among the Lon-

don Clergy and the Minifters in Scotland,

for providing Annuities for their Widows.

p. 84

SECT. III. Of the best Schemes for provid

ing Annuities for Widows.
P. 95

SECT. IV. Of Schemes for providing Life-

Annuities, which are not to commence 'till

particular Ages; and, particularly, of the

Societies lately established in London for the

Benefit of Old Age.

a 3

p. 106

SECT

SECT. V. Of the Amicable Corporation for

a perpetual Assurance-Office: and the So-

ciety for Equitable Affurances on Lives

and Survivorships.

CHA P. III.

P. 120

Of Public Credit, and the National Debt.

P. 133

ESSAY I.

Obfervations on the Expectations of Lives; the

Increase of Mankind; the Number of Inba-

bitants in London; and the Influence of

great Towns on Health and Population.

In a Letter to Benjamin Franklin, Efq;

L. L. D. and F. R. S. p. 167. To which

is added, a Poftfcript, containing Obferva-

tions on Edinburgh, Paris, and Berlin.

P. 213

ESSAY II.

On Mr. De Moivre's Rules for calculating the

Values of joint Lives.

ESSAY III.

P, 227

On the Method of calculating the Values of Re-

verfions depending on Survivorships. p. 233

ESSAY IV.

On the proper Method of conftructing Tables

for determining the Rate of human Morta-

lity, the Number of Inhabitants, and the

Values of Lives in any Town or District,

from Bills of Mortality in which are given

the Numbers dying annually at all Ages.

P. 240

APPENDIX.

Containing Algebraical Demonftrations; Tables;

and Rules for computing the Increase of

Money bearing compound Intereft. p. 283

SUPPLEMENT.

Containing additional Obfervations and Tables.