38*0 C. 5, 6. Anno o£lavo Ann^e Reginse. A. D. 1709. thoufand Pounds, any Perfon, who will become an Adventurer, fhall and may advance the Sum of ten Pounds, for which Sum fo advanced, he fhe, or they, for thirty-two Years, fhall be entitled to receive a Share or Dividend of the faid yearly Fund, as hereafter is expreffed ; and that every Adventurer may advance as many entire Sums of ten Founds, as he, fhe, or they, fhall think fit, and for every fuch Sum of ten Pounds fo advanced, he, flie, or they, is or are to be interefted in one Lot or Share of and in the faid vearlv Fund. faid yearly Fund, " HerMajefty to appoint Managers for the Lottery. Books to be provided with 3 Columns, £5'c. Receivers " to be appointed by the Lord Treafurer, &c. Managers to examine the Books, and deliver them to " the Receivers, l^c. Tickets how to be delivered out. Receivers to re-deliver the Books, bfc. by 12 " Sept. 1710. Middle Column Tickets to be rolled up, and put in a Box, marked A. Innermofl: to re- " main in the Books. There fhall be printed one hundred and fifty thoufand Tickets, and three thoufand " feven hundred and fifty Tickets fhall be Fortunate; that is to fay. One of them one thoufand Pounds " yearly; Three of them, feverally, five hundred Pounds ; Four of them, four hundred Pounds ; Four " of them, three hundred Pounds ; Four of them, two hundred Pounds, and twenty of them one hundreds, " and thirty of them fifty Pounds, one hundred of them twenty-Pounds yearly, fix hundred and one of " them ten Pounds, and two thoufand nine hundred eighty-three of them, feverally, five Pounds, yearly : " Fifty Pounds yearly to the firft drawn Ticket, and fifty Pounds yearly to the laft drawn Ticket. If " 1,500,000 1. be not paid in, then the Fund to be proportionable to the Sum advanced. Blanks to have " 14. s. per Annum for 32 Years. The Manner of drawing the Tickets. Managers to adjudge to whom " the fortunate Tickets belong. Forging Tickets Felony. Fortunate to be paid their Advantages half " yearly. Unfortunate to be paid yearly, at the Feaft of St i^/fA^^/. Eight Pounds /i^r Cent, allowed " for prompt Payment. A Transfer Office to be kept in London. Money lent Tax-free. Half yearly " and yearly Payments to be made in Courfe. Benefit Tickets to be paid in Arithmetical Progreffion, " and the Tickets for i^s. per Anntmi. Overplus difpofable by Parliament. [Part of thefe Annuities " were fubfcribed inte South Sea Stoci purfuant to 5 Geo, i. c, 19. & 6 Geo. i. c, 4.] Coals, &c. car- ' XXXIX. And whereas a Doubt may arife whether Coals, Culm, or Cynders carried from the Bridge ried from Ster- ' of Sterling, which is on the Firth of i^Jr//;, to the Town of Dunbar, are liable to the Duties by this ling to Dunbar, ' j^^ impofed, as if they were carried to Sea ;' It is hereby provided, enafled, and declared. That fuch &c, not taxable. Qq^^ Culm, and Cynders, fo carried from the Bridge of Sterling to the Town of Dunbar, or to any Part betwixt them, fhall not, by reafon of fuch Carriage, be liable to the Duties by this A£i: impofed j any thing in this Ad; contained to the contrary notwithftanding. CAP. V, An A£l to continue the Aft for recruiting her Majefty's Land Forces and Marines, for the Service of the Year one thoufand feven hundred and ten. EXP. , CAP. VI. An Adl for employing the Manufadturers by encouraging the Confumption of Raw Silk and Mohair Yarn, HERE AS the Maintenance and Subfiflience of many thoufands of Men, Women, and Chil- dren, within this Kingdom of Great Britain, depends upon the making of Silk, Mohair, Gimp, and Thread Buttons and Button Holes with the Needle, and great Numbers of Throwfters, Twifters, ' Spinners, Winders, Dyers, and others, are employed in preparing the Materials of which fuch Buttons ' and Button Holes are made ; and whereas the Silk and Mohair wherewith the faid Buttons and Button^
- Holes are made, is purchafed in Turkey and other Foreign Parts, in Exchange forthe Woollen ManufaSure'
' of Great Britain, to the great Confumption thereof; and for the Encouragement of fuch numerous Manu- loW. 3. c, 2. ' fa£turers and Manufaftures, an Act was made in the tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majefty King ' William the third, of glorious Memory, intituled. An ASi to prevent the making or felling Buttons, made ' of Cloth, Serge, Drugget, or other Stuffs or Materials, under the Forfeitures therein mentioned ; but that ' the intended Encouragement by the faid Adt, has, in a great Meafure, been rendred inefFecSual, by a late ' and unforfeen Practice of making and binding of Button Holes with Cloth, Serge, Drugget, or other ' Stuffs, to the great Difcouragement of and Abatement in the Confumption of Raw Silk and Mohair ' Yarn, and the utter Ruin of numerous Families, who ufed to manufafture the faid Materials, if not ' fpeedily prevented :' For Remedy whereof, and making the faid recited A£t of Parliament more effec- tual, be it ena£led by the Queen's mofl: Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the After March 1 1;, Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority 1710. None fliall of fhe fame. That from and after the five and twentieth Day of March one thoufand feven hundred and make, fell, &c. ^^^_^ ^^ Taylor or other Perfon or Perfons whatfoever within the Kingdom of Great Britain fhall make, BMton'Hoies"^ fell, fet on, ufe or bind, or caufe to be made, fold, fet on, ufed or bound on any Clothes, or Wearing made or bound Garments whatfoever, any Butttons or Button Holes made of, or ufed or bound with Serge, Drugget, with Serge, &c. Frize, Camlet, or any other Staffs of which Clothes and Wearing Garments are ufually made, upon For- en Forfeitore of feiture of the Sum of five Pounds for every Dozen of fuch Buttons or Button Holes fo made, fold, fet on, 5I. for every ^^^^ ^^ bound, or "caufed to be made, fold, fet on, ufed ox bound, as aforefaid, and in like Proportion for Dozen, «c, ' ] t 7 1 ^ .
