The Paper of Mr. H. R. Harding upon “Government “Legislation in reference to the working of Life Assurance “Companies”, submitted to the First International Congress of Actuaries, the supplement added thereto by myself relative to German Law, and my paper upon German Insurance Legislation for the Second International Congress, show that the public Law relative to the business management of home and foreign Life Insurance Offices differed until recently in the individual German States, and in many of those individual States a firm basis was lacking.