It is, I may observe, no uncommon practice for parties to leave deposits in their names, about the amount I have stated, for the very purpose of providing for the expenses of their interment, so as to ensure for themselves, under any change of circumstances, a decent burial; this feeling has prevailed so strongly in instances within my own knowledge, that, upon the happening of the death, the party has been found to have died at last an inmate of a poor house, and destitute of every kind of property, save only the little fund appropriated for the purpose I have stated. This feeling is not confined solely to the poorest class of our depositors: an instance lately occurred in which a depositor to the amount of 32_l._, made a special request that 20_l._ of this money might, in the event of her death, be paid only to _her undertaker_ on production of his account and of _her burial certificate_, and the balance to be paid to her relatives. The depositor died in the following year, and her wishes were accordingly carried into effect, with the concurrence of a relative, to whom it appeared she had communicated the arrangement she had thus made in regard to her money deposited with this institution. ──────────────╥──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Total Number ║ of Deaths in ║Total Effects of such deceased Depositions, certified as the Year ║ under the following Amounts, viz:— ending 31st of║ March, 1842. ║ ──────────────╫─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┬──────── ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Amount ║ £50 │£100 │£200 │£300 │£400 │£450 │£600 │£800 │to £1000 ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ and ║ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │upwards. ──────────────╫─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┼──────── 232 ║ 133 │ 32 │ 23 │ 10 │ 1 │ 5 │ 6 │ 6 │ 16 ──────────────╨─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┴────────