Excerpt from Fifty-Eight Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioners, Vol. 1: Of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts January 1, 1913 To the General Court of Massachusetts. Herewith is respectfully submitted Part I. of the fifty-eighth annual report of the Insurance Commissioner, as required by section 17, chapter 576, Acts of 1907. As in previous years, this volume relates to fire and marine insurance companies, and covers certain records concerning fire insurance companies, comments by the commissioner, reports of receivers, new fire insurance legislation, various comparative tables, including a gain and loss exhibit for each company, abstracts of the annual reports of the companies, and the report of the bureau which investigates the causes of fires and reports thereon. 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.