r32 C. 7. Anno primo Georgii III. A. D. 1760. the faiti Books {hall be printed fixty thoufand Tickets of the fame Breadth and Form, nnd numbered in like Manner ; and in the extreme Column of the faid Books there (hall be printed a third Rank or Series of Tickets, of the fame Number with thofe of the other two Columns ; v/hich Tickets fhall fcverally be of an oblong Figure, and in the faid Books fhall be joined with oblique Lines, Flouriflies, or Devices, in fuch Manner as the faid IIanagers and Directors, or the major Part of ihcm, fhall think mofl: fafe and convenient; and that every Ticket in the third or extreme Column of the faid Eooks fhjll have written or printed thereupon (befides the Number of fuch Ticket, and the prel'cat Year of our Lord Chrift) Words to this Effed;
- ^~Y^ HIS Ticket will intitle the Bearer thereof to Six Pounis, or to a better Chance, in a Joint
' X Stock of Annuities, after the Rate of three Pounds per Centum per Annum^ transfcrrable at ' the Bank of England. DupHcates aifo of the XXVIIL And it is hereby enafted. That the faid Managers and Dircdors, or fo many of them as faid Tickets to be pre. {hall be prefent at fuch Meeting, or the major Part of them then prcfent, fliall carefully examine all Hands, importing his or their P.eceipt of fuch Book w B^oks, and fo many Tickets therein as fhall be dcliv^ered to him or them refpedively ; and all and every fuch Calhier or Cafhiers relpedivtly is and are hereby directed and required, upon his or their receiving every or any entire bum of ten Calliiers to return tie Eooks with the Renuin which the faid Calhier or Cafhiers ihall lign with his or their own Name or Names; and he or they fhall permit the Contributor, if it be dcfned,^to write his or her Name or Mark on the correfponding Ticket in the fame Book ; and atthe fume Time the faid Cafhier or Cafhiers fliall deliver to the faid Contributor the Ticket fo cut ofF, yt^hich he, fhe, or they, are to keep and ufe for the better afcer- taining and fecuring the Litereft which lie, fhe, or they, his, her, or their Executors, Adminillrators, Succeflbrs, or Affigns, fhall or may have in the faid Fund. XXiX. And be it further ena6fcd by the Authority aforefaid. That the faid Ca{hier or Cafhiers, on or before the fecond Day of November one thoufand fevcn hundred and fixty-one, fhall re-de!ivcr der ot the Tickets. ^^ ^^^ j-.^jj ],ianagers and Directors, at theirfaid Office or Place of Meeting, all the faid Books, and therein all the I'ickets which the (aid Calhier or Cafiiiers fliall not have cut out and delivered to the Contributors as aforefaid ; and fhall then and there alfo deliver to the faid Managers and Diredors a true and juft Account in Writing, under his or their Hand or Hands, of all Sums of Money accrued or come to the Hands of fuch Cafhier or Cafhiers, by or for the Tickets delivered or to be delivered out purfuant to this A6f, and how the fame, or how much thereof, fhall have been adtually paid by fuch Calhier or Cafhiers into the P>.eceipt of the Exchequer for the Purpofcs herein mentioned : And that the faid Managers and Directors, or the major Part of them which fliall be prelent at a A4ccting as aforefaid, fliall forthwith caufe all the Tickets of the faid outermioft Columns which fhall not have or the High Treafurer for the Time being, Ihall judge reafonableand fitting. Tirkcticf ihem'iddk XXX. And be it further en adted. That the faid Managers and Directors, or the majcn- Part.of coluirns to be rolled up, th.m, which fhall b? prefent at a Meeting as aforefaid, fhalT caufe all the Tickets of the middle Co- acd faficr.ed with Silk ; l^^mns in the Books madc out with three Columns, as aforefaid, which fhall be delivered back tothcin, byor from the faid Cafhier or Cafhiers as aforefaid, to be carefully rolled up and made fafl with Thread pn<i cut cfT ind-fttwife or Silk ; and the faid Managers or Directors, or the major Part of them as aforefaid, fhall, in their ii.ro .1 »ox marked vi;h i^fcfcnce, and in the Prefencc of fuch Contributors or Adventurers as will be there, caufe all the faid tlieUiier (Aj Tickets, which are to be fo rolled up and made fal'c as aforefaid,, to be cut off indentwife through tiie faid oblique Lines, Flourijli:s, or J!)evices, into a Box to be prepared for that Purpofc, and to be ni:rkcd Box to be locked up and'^'^ith the Letter (A) whi.h is prefenily to be put up into another ftrong Box, and to be locked with f,.jltji. ' feven different Locks and Keys, to be kept by as many of the faid Managers, and fealed with their Seals, or the Seals of fome of them, until the faid Tickets are to be drawn, as is herein after men- tioned ; and that the Tickets in the firlt or innermofl: Columns of thj faid Books, fhall remain Hill in the Books for difcovcring any Millake or Fraud (if ajiy fuch flioulJ happen to be commit. edj con- trary to the true Meaning of this Adt. _ • Bnk« to be- pr-pirfd XXXI. And be it further cnadcd by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Managers and Dircc- w.ih zCoii.mo joni-ach tors, or thc major Part of them, which Ihall be prefent at any Meeting as aforefaid, fhall alfo prepare, «f which 60,000 Tick- ^^ caufc to be prepared, other Books in which every Leaf fliall be divided or diftinguilhcd into two rti lu b-- {.'rmted. Columns ; and upon thc mncrmoft of thofc two Columns there fhall be priiited fixty th'oufand I'ickets, and upon the outcrmoll of the faid two Cohunns there Ihall be printed fixly thoufand Tickets, all v.'hirli fhall be of equal J^ength and Breadth, as near as may be; which two Columns in the faid Books Ihall be joined with Ibme Flourilh or Device, through which the outermoft Tickets may be cut off indentvvife ; and ihu tlcvcii thoufand nin-; hundred and forty-live Tickets, Pari of thofc to be
