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 A. EX 171 8. Anno quinto Georgii Regis. C. 9. 191 third Part thereof on or before the fifteenth Day of April one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen, and the remaining two third Parts thereof on or before the fifteenth Day of May in the Year of our Lord one 1 Times of Pay- ment. - See farther ccn~ thoufand feven hundred and nineteen. , vgtbiftDutia onCoah, &c. 5 Ceo. I. c. jo. 6 Cm. I. c. 4. 13 Gee. 1. c. 21. 22 Ge;. 2. <. 37. 30 Geo. 2. e. 19. §• l3, " Treafury to appoint Managers. Books to be prepared with two Columns. Trcnfury to appoint Re- " ceivers. Managers to examine the Books. Tickets how to be delivered out. Books to be re-delivered " to the Managers' by 20 May 17 19. Tickets not difpofed of to be delivered into the Exchequer to be " cancelled." EXP. ' XVIII. And whereas in and by one Act of this Seffion of Parliament, intituled, An Acl for applying Recital of ' certain Overplus Monies anil further Sums to be raifed, as well by tvay of a Lottery as by Loans, toward* paying 5 p* - '■ c - J" ' off and cancelling Exchequer-bills, and for hjfening the prefent great Charge in relation to thoj'e Bills, and for L e n ',"f r y. la J* ■ ' circulating and exchanging for ready Money the Rcfidue of the jame Bills for the future, Ir is enacted, Tnat t hL Sifiiua. ' one hundred fixty-eight thoufand fix hundred fixty-five Tickets therein mentioned Ihail be rolled up and 6 Books mall be prepared, in which every Leaf {hall be divided or diftinguifhed into two Columns; and ' fix hundred fixty-five Tickets, and that upon the outermoft of thole two Columns there friall be printed ' be and be called the Fortunate Tickets, to which the Prizes .or Benefits {hall belong, as is therein men- ' tioned ; and the faid Fortunate Tickets {hall be written upon, as v/ell in Figures as in Words at Length, ' two of them feverally, ten thoufand Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of four of them feverally, * ' five thoufand Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of thirty of them feverally, one thoufand Pounds ' principal Money ;, upon every one of feventy of them feverally; five hundred Pounds principal Money ; ' upon every one of four hundred and four of them feverally, one hundred Pounds principal Money ; upon ' twenty five thoufand three hundred and ninety of them feverally, ten Pounds principal Money: Which 1 principal Sums, together with five hundred Pounds principal Money to be allowed to the Owner of the ' Ticket, (befides the Benefits which may happen to belong to the two Tickets laft-mentioned) do amount '* in the Whole to five hundred thoufand Pounds ; and that all the Tickets contained in the outermoft Co- ' fourth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and nineteen the faid feveral Boxes, with the Tickets - ' therein, {hall be brought into the Guild-hall of the City of London ; and that the Tickets therein fhall be •* as are therein mentioned, .as by the fame Act, Relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear.' Nov/ in regard the Tickets prefcribed by this prefent Ait do confift of the fame Numbers, and are to be Every Chapce of .attended with the fame Chances with thofe appointed to be prepared by the Act 1 aft before recited : It is tllis Lottery to hereby further enacted by the Authority aforeiaid, That the Chance of every Ticket for which any Money ^ e d""!"" 0/ fhall be contributed on this prefent Act (whether the fame fhall happen to be a Prize or a Blank] fhall be the ot h er Lot- determined by the drawing of the Tickets upon the faid other A£t ; fo that in every Cafe where any nura- tery. bred Ticket upon the .Drawing by the faid other Act fhall be entitled to a Prize in principal Money, the 5 Geo. 1. c.3. Ticket of the like Number to.be made forth upon this prefent Act fhall be entitled to a Prize of the like Value in principal Money; and In everyCafe where any numbred Ticket upon the Drawing by the faid . other Act fhall not be a Prize, the Ticket of the like Number to be made forth upon this prefent Act {hall likewife be deemed to be an unfortunate Ticket, to which no Prize fhall belong. "" The Method of Drawing to afcertain the Courfe of Payment. An exact Table-of the'Courfe of Payment " to be printed. Fortunate Tickets to be brought to the Managers within 30 Days after Drawing. For- " tunate Tickets to be printed. Forging or counterfeiting Tickets Felony. Managers to enter Fortunate ' "" Tickets in a Book, and tralifmit it into the Exchequer. Intereft to be paid Quarterly. Firft Payment f at St. John Baptijl's Day 1719. Managers to be fwortt. Their Oath. All Receipts and Iilues at the "*' Exchequer to be gratis, &c. Money lent Tax-free. Fortunate Tickets to be es;changed for Handing ' Orders. Orders in the fame Courfe of Payment to be numbred according to their bringing in. Orders ' to be paid numerically, fe'e and affignable. Severs;! Orders in the fame thoufand may be turned into one ' Order, .not exceeding .500/. in one Order. The Fund of 30,559/. 14s, per Annum appropriated for pay- " ing Intereft and Principal. No undue Preference if fubfequent Orders he paid before other Perfons that did not come to take their Money. Monies of one Year proving deficient, to be paid out of the next ' Year. Notice in the London Gazette, and by Writing to be hung up in the Office, to be given of what ' Courfes are in Payment. Receivers may take in Money before they receive their Books. Contributor ■" advancing one Third, and mot the remaining two Thirds by iz,jlay 1719. the firft Third forfeited, isc, '" Treafury to appoint Officers to pay Intereft-and Principal, and to regifter all Alignments of Orders, &c, ■*" All Alignments to be regiftaed without Fee. Extraordinary Benefits of 1000/, or upwards, may be dl- " vided
 * put into a Box to be marked with the Letter (A) and fecured as in the Dime Aft is prefcribed; and that
 * that upon the innermost of thofe two Columns there {ball be printed one hundred fixty-eight thoufand
 * one hundred fixty-eight thoufand fix hundred fixty-five Tickets ; and that twenty-eight thoufand one
 * hundred and nine, Part of thofe contained in the outermoft Columns of the Books laft-mentioned, {hall
 * -in Manner following, that is to fay, Upon one of them, twenty thoufand Pounds principal Money ; upon
 * every one of eight hundred of them feverally, fifty Pounds principal Money ; upon every one of fourteen
 * hundred and eight of them feverally, five and twenty Pounds principal Money; and upon every one of
 * Firft-drawn Ticket, and five thoufand Pounds principal Money to the Owner of the Lafi-drawn
 * lumns of the laft-mentioned Books, fhail be carefully rolled up and put into another Box to be .marked
 * with the Letter (B-), to be alfo fecured as in the fame Act is prefcribed ; and that on or before trie twenty-
 * drawn, and the Fortunate Tickets afcertained, adjusted and fettled in the Manner and within fuch Time