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 330 C. lo. Anno tricefimo fecunclo Georgii II. A. D. 1758. Con'ributors not making XXXI. ProYtded always, That in cafe any fuch Contributors 'Cvlio have already depofited with, good iheir Payments q^ (hall hereafter pay to, the faid Cafhiers, any Sum or Sums of Money at the Times, and in the v/umn the Tinieshm^t- jy^ja,-,t-;ei. before-mentioned, in Part of the Sum fo by them refpedively fubfcribed, or their refpeftive the Refidue of the Sums lb fubfcribed, at the Times, and in the Manner before-mentioned; then, and in every fuch Cafe, fo much of the refpeftive Sums fo fubfcribed as fhall have been atftually paid in Part thereof, to the faid Caftiier or CaTniers, fhall be forfeited for the Benefit of the Publick-j any thing in this Adt contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notwithflanding. Afcomptant General to XXXII. And be it further cnacflcd by the Authority aforefaid. That the faid Accomptant Gene- gire Credit for the Sums ral for the Bank of England^ for the Tiaie being, fnall, in a Book or Books to be provided and kept named in the Certificates if-Qf ^j^^j. Purpofe, give Credit on or before the firft Day oi July next, to the faid refpective Contri- butors, and their refpedtive Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, for the Principal Sums by them refpc(5ively fubfcribed and paid, and the faid additional Capital of five Pounds /j^r Cf«/«/n by this AGt. allowed thereon; and the Perfons to whofe Credit fuch Principal Sums with the faid additional Capital fhall be fo placed, their rcfpecSiive Executors, Adminillrrators and Afligns, fhall and may which may be transfer- have Power to affign and transfer the fame or any Part, Share or Proportion thereof, to any othor '■'=''» Perfon or Peifons, or Body or Bodies Politick or Corporate whatfoever, in other Books to be pro- and carry 3 1, per Cent, vided and kept by the faid Accomptant General for that Purpofe; and every principal Sum fo Intercft. afiigned and transferred, fhall carry an Annuity after the Rate of three Pounds /i^r C^«^z//rt^rr ^s- ««/«, and fhall be taken and deemed to be Stock transferrable according to the true Intent arni Meaning of this A61:, until Redemption thereof by Parliament, according to a Provifo herein after contained for that Purpofe. ' XXXIII. And whereas it is intended that every Contributor of the Sum of one hundred Pounds, Managers and DIreflors ' and a Lottery to be drawn, in manner herein after mentioned ;' Be it therefore further enacted by of theLottery to Le ap- the Authority aforefaid. That fuch Perfons as the Commiffioners of his Majefty's Treafury, or any pointed by the Treafury. three Or moie of them now being, or the High Treafurer, or any three or more of the CommifHo- ners of the Treafury for the Time being, fhall nominate or appoint, fhall be Managers and Direc- tors for preparing and delivering out Tickets, and to overfee the drawing of Lots, and to order, do and perform, fuch other Matters and Things as are hereafter in and by this Act directed and ap- pointed by fuch Managers and Directors to be done and performed ; and that fuch Managers or Direftors fhall meet together, from Time to Time, at fome publick OfBce or Place for the Execu- Method of the Lottery tion of the Powers and Trufts in them repofed by this A61 ; and that the faid Managers or Direc- 2o«^« tors, or fo many of them as fhall be prefent at any fuch Meeting, or the major Part of them, fhall caufe Books to be prepared, in which every Leaf fliall be divided or diftingiiifhcd into three Co- lumns, and upon the innermoft of the faid three Columns there fhall be printed fixty-fix thoufand Tickets, to be numbered one, two, three and fo onwards, in an arithmetical Progreffion, where the common Exccfs is to be one, until they rife to and for the Number of fixty-fix thoufand; and upon the middle Column in every of the faid Books fliall be printed fixty-fix thoufand Tickets of the fame Breadth and Form, and numbered in like Manner; and in the extreme Column of the faid Books there fhall be printed a third Rank or Series of Tickets, of the fame Number with thofe of the other two Columns; which Tickets fhall feverally be of an oblong Figure, and in the faid Books fnall be joined with oblique Lines, Flourifhes or Devices, in fuch Manner as the faid Managers and Diieiflors, or the major Part of them, fhall think moft fafc and convenient; and that every Ticket in the third or extreme Column of the faid Books fliall have written or printed thereupon (bcfides the Number of fuch Ticket, and the prefent Year of our Lord Chrift) Words to this EfFedt : t ' Jl. Stock of Annuities, after the Rate of three Pounds per Centum per J/inum, transfcnable at WanagerB to examine the XXXIV. And it is hereby enacted. That the faid Managers and Directors, or fo many of them Books of Trcltet-:, and as fhall he prefent at fuch Meeting, or the major Part of them then prefent, fliall carefully examine deii»er them to the He- j^n ^hg f^i^^ Books, with the Tickets therein ; and take Care that the fame be contrived, numbered livered the fame Books, and every or any of them, as they fhall be examined, to the faid Cafhicr'or takinBReceiptsfortl.em. CJafhiers, taking from fuch Cafhier or Cafhiers an Acknowledgment in Writing, under his or their Hands, importing his or their Receipt of fuch Book or Books, and fo many Tickets therein, as Receivers ft.all cut out, fhall bc delivered to him or them refpc(Stively ; and all and every fuch Cafliicr or Cafhiers refpec- »iid deliver Ticket! to tively, is and are hereby diredcd and required, upon his or their receiving the full Confideralion- iij< ConUibuiors. n)oney to bc contributed on this A61, from anyPeifon or Peifons contributing as aforefaid, to cijt out of the faid Book or Books, fo to be put into his or their Cuflody, through the faid oblique Lines, FU-uriflies or Devices, Indcntwifc, one of the Tickets in the faid extreme Columns ; which the faid Cafhier or Cafhiers fhall fign with his or their own Name or Names, and he or they fhall permit the Contributor, if it bc dcfircd, to write his or her Name or Mark on the corrcfponding Tickets in the fame Book ; and at tlie fame Time the faid Cafhier or Cafliicrs fhall deliver to the iiiui Conixibuior the Ticket fo cut ufl, which he, flic, or ihcy, arc to keep and ufc for the better ifccrtaiiiing
 * 'c^,^^ ' Executors, Adminiftrators and Affigns, fliail not advaiice and pay to the faid Cafhier or Cafhiers,
 * towards raifing the faid Sum of fix millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds, fhall have, and be intitled
 * unto, an additional Capital often Pounds in a Lottery Ticket; which Tickets are to be prepared.
 * 'TT^ HIS Ticket will intitle the Bearer thereof to fix Pounds, or to a better Chance, in a ]o
 * the Bank of En£laf:d.'
 * '^"*="» and made according to the true Intent and Meaning of this Act; and fhall deliver or caufe to be de-