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A. D. 1760. Anno prlmo Georgii III. C. 7. ^^3 be contained in the outermoft Columns of the Books laft mentioned, fliall be, and be called the Fortu- nate Tickets, to which extraordinary Benefits {hall belong, as is herein after mentioned ; and the faid Managers and Directors, or the major Part of them, cr fuch of them, asfhall be prefent at a Meet- iiig as aforefaid, fliall caufe the faid Fortunate Tickets to be written upon, or othervvife exprefled, as^^wcll in Figures as in Words at Length, in A-lanner following ; that is to fay, upon two of them The Number and Value Icveraily ten thoufanJ Pounds principal Money; upon two of them feverally live thouland Pounds ot the Fortuna:eTickets. principal Money ; upon every one of four of them feverally, two thoufand Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of ten of them feverally, one rhoufand Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of tventy of them feverally, five hundred Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of one hundred of them feverally, one hundred Pounds principal Money; upon every one of two hundred and one of them feverally, fifty Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of eleven thoufand fix hundred and fix of them feverally twenty Pounds principal Money: Which principal Sums, fo to be written, or otherwife exprefled upon the faid Fortunate Tickets, together with five hundred Pounds principal 500I. to the firft drawn Money, to be allowed to the Owner of the firft drawn Ticket, and one thoufand Pounds principal Ticket, and locol. to Money to the Owner of the laft drawn Ticket, over and above the Benefits which may happen to be- ^'"^^^ drawn. long to the two laft mentioned Tickets, and, together v/ith the Sum of fix Pounds to be paid or allowed for and upon each Blank or Unfortunate Ticket of the faid Lottery, will amount in the Whole to the principal Sum of fix hundred thoufand Pounds, to be converted into Annuities by virtue of this A6t in refpe6l of the faid Lottery ; and the faid Managers and Dire6lors, or the major Part of them, who T;ck:etsof th oute ft fliall be prefent at a Meeting as aforefaid, fnall caufe all the faid Tickets, contained in the outermoft Cohimns of the laft men- Columns of the laid laft-mentioned Books, to be, in the Prefence of the faid Managers and Di- tioned Book to be rolled redtors, or the majot Part of them, Which fhall be prefent at a Meeting as aforefaid, and in the Pre- "? ='"<! 'i^d. fence of fuch Contributors or Adventurers as will then be there, to be carefully rolled up and faftened ^"'1 cut out indentwife, with Thread or Silk, and carefully cutout indentwife through the faid Flourilh or Device, into ano- '"to a ^"^ maiked with ther Box, to be prepared for this rurpofe, and to be marked with the Letter (B), which Box fliall be "^ ^'^^" (^) put into another ftrong Box, and locked up with fevcn difl'erent Locks and Keys, to be kept by as b^x to be locked up i many of the faid Managers, and fealed up with their Seals, or the Seals of fome of them, until thefe lealed. Tickets fh:dl alfo be drawn in the Manner and Form herein after mentioned ; and that the vv'hole Buiinefs of rolling up, and cutting off, and putting into the faid Boxes the faid Tickets, and lock- ing up and fealing the faid Boxes, fhall be pertormed by the faid Managers and DiretStors, or fuch of them as aforefaid, before the lafl: fix Days immediately preceding the Day by this Aift appointed for the Drawing faid Lottery : And to the End every Perfon concerned may be well affured that the Counterpart Publick NTotice to be g?v- of the fame Number with his or her Ticket is put into the Box marked with the Letter (A) from ^'^ of Times of puring whence the fame may be drawn, and that other Matters are done as hereby directed, fome publick ^^^ Tickets into the Notiiicatian in Print fhall be given of the precife Time or Times of putting the l^iid Tickets into the faid Boxes, to the end that fuch Adventurers, as fliall be minded to fee the fame done, may be prefent at the doing thereof. XXXIL And be it further enabled by the Authority aforefaid. That on or before the fixteenth Day Lottery to bepn drawing of November one thoufand feven hundred and fixry-cne, the faid Managers and Dire6lors fhall caufe on j6 Nov. t;Ci. the faid f veral Boxes, with all the Tickets therein, to be brought into the Guildhall of the City of ' " ■ - - - - - ^^ J'.Tcthod to he obferved in in which they fhall have been locked up ; and the Tickets or Lots in the refpective innermoft Boxes being, in the Prefence of the faid Managers and IDirectors, or fuch of them as fhall be then prefent, and ox fuch Adventurers as will be tierefor the Satisfadlion of themfelvcs, well fliaken and mingled in each Box diffinftly ; fome one indilterent and fit Perfon, to be appointed and direded by the faid Ma- nagers, or the major Part of them, cr fuch of them as fhall be then prefent, fliall takeout and drav/ one 'Picket from the B«x where tlie faid numbered Tickels fhall be as aforelaid put; and one oLhrr indiixercnt and fit Perfon, to be appointed and direded in like Manner, fhall take out a Ticket or Lot from the Box where the faid eleven thoufand nine hundred and forty-live fortunate, and forty-eight thoufjnd and fifty-five Blank Tickets fhall be promifcuoufly put as aforefaid ; and immediately both the Tickets fo drawn fhall be opened, and the Number, as well of the Fortunate as the 'Bj.mk Ticket, fhall be named aloud ;*and if the Ticket taken or drawn from the Box containing the For- tunate and Blank Lots fhall appear to be a Blank, then the numbered Ticket {o drawn with the, laid Blank at the fame Time drawn, fliall both be put upon one File ; and if the Ticket fo drawn or taken from the Box containing the Fortunate and Blank Lots fliall appear to be ou^- of the Fortunate Ticktt% then the principal Sum written upon fuch P'ortunate Ticker, whatfoever it be, fhall be en- tered by a Clerk, which the faid Managers, or the major Part of them as afoief-iid, fliall employ and overfee for this Purpofe, into a Book to be kept for cnteriiig the Numbers coming up with tht: faid Fortunate Tickets, and the principal Sums whereunto they thall be iiititled refpedively, and two of the faid Managers fhall fet their Name.-; as WitnelTes to fuch Entries ; and the Lid Fortunate and num.bered Tickets fo dtawn together, fhall be put upon another I' ile ; and fo the faid Drawinp- of ^. the Tickets fhall continue, by taking one Ticket at a Time out of each Box, and with opentng, " naming aloud, and filing the fame, and by entering the Fortunate Lots in fuch Method as is before mentioned, until the v/hole Number of eleven thoufand nitie hundred and forty-five Fortunate Tickets, and one nxorefor the lafl: drawn as aforefaid, fhall be completely drawn ; and as the fime caanot ^f^gr each Diy's Draw be performed in one Day'^ Time, the faid Managers or Diredors fliall caufe the Boxes to be locked in^', the Boxes to be " up loiked up «iid I'taled.