Page:Ruffhead - The Statutes at Large - vol 8.djvu/568

534 C. 7. Anno primo Georgii III. A. D. 1760. up and sealed in manner as aforefaid, and adjourn till the next Day, and so from Day to Day, and every Day (except Sundays, Christmas-day, Thanksgiving and Fast Days) and then open the same, and proceed as above, till the said whole Number of eleven thousand nine hundred and forty-five fortunate Tickets, and one more, shall be completely drawn as aforesaid; and afterwards the said numbered Tickets so drawn, with the fortunate Tickets drawn against the same, shall be and remain in a strong Box locked up as aforesaid, and under the Custody of the said Managers, until they shall take them out to examine, adjust, and settle the Property thereof. XXXIII. And to the end the Fortunate may know, whether absent or present, to what Degree they have been so; Be it enacted. That the said Managers shall, as soon as conveniently may be, after the said Drawing is over, cause to be printed and published the Number of the Tickets drawn against each fortunate Ticket, and the principal Sum written on the same; and if any Contention or Dispute shall arise in the adjusting the Property of the said fortunate Tickets, the major Part of the said Managers agreeing therein, shall determine to whom it doth or ought to belong: And if any Person or Persons shall forge or counterfeit any Ticket or Tickets, Certificate or Certificates, to be made forth by this Aft, or alter any the Numbers thereof, or utter, vend, barter, or dispose of, or offer to dispose of, any false, altered, forged, or counterfeit Ticket or Tickets, Certificate or Certificates, or shall bring any forged or counterfeit Ticket or Certificate, or any Ticket or Certificate the Number whereof is altered (knowing the same to be such) to the said Managers, or any of them, or to the Cashier or Accomptant General of the Bank of England for the Time being, or to any other Person or Persons whatsoever, with a fraudulent Intention; then every such Person or Persons, being thereof convicted in due Form of Law, shall be adjudged a Felon, and shall suffer Death as in Cases of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy: And the said Managers and Directors, or any two or more of them, are hereby authorized, required, and impowered to cause any Person or Persons bringing or uttering such forged or counterfeit Ticket or Tickets, Certificate or Certificates, as aforesaid, to be apprehended, and to commit him, her, or them to his Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, or to the Common Gaol of the County or Place where such Person or Persons shall be so apprehended, to be proceeded against for the said Felony according to Law. XXXIV. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Person that shall be appointed as aforesaid to be a Manager and Director for putting this Act in Execution, before his acting in such Commission, shall take the Oath following; that is to say,

« I A. B. do swear, That I will faithfully execute the Trust reposed in me; and that I will not use « any indirect Art or Means, or permit or direct any Person to use any indirect Art or Means, to « obtain a Prize or Fortunate Lot, for myself, or any other Person whatsoever; and that I will do « the utmost of my Endeavour to prevent any undue or sinister Practice to be done by any Person « whatsoever; and that I will, to the best of my Judgment, declare to whom any Prize, Lot, or « Ticket of Right does belong, according to the true Intent and Meaning of the Act of Parliament « made in the first Year of his Majesty's Reign in that Behalf.'

Which said Oath shall and may be administered by any two or more of the other Managers and Directors. XXXV. Provided always, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Cashier or Cashiers, having given Security as aforesaid, at any Time or Times, before such Cashier or Cashiers shall have received any Book or Books from the said Managers, comprehending the said sixty thousand Tickets as aforesaid, in three Columns as aforesaid, to receive from any Person or Persons who will voluntarily offer, contribute, and advance the Residue of any Sum of ten Pounds, or several Sums of ten Pounds upon this Act as aforesaid, the Sums fo offered to be contributed or advanced at one intire Payment, or in such Proportions and Manner as aforesaid, before such Cashier or Cashiers shall have received such Book or Books; and the said Cashier or Cashiers shall give a Note or Receipt under his or their Hand or Hands for the Sum or Sums so contributed; and shall be obliged thereby, and by this Act, to give the Bearer of every such Note or Receipt, a Ticket or Tickets of the extream Column of the three Columns Book or Books aforesaid, for every ten Pounds so contributed, paid, or answered, as soon as he or they shall be enabled thereunto, by Delivery of any such Book or Books to him or them from the said Managers as aforesaid; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. XXXVI. Provided also, That in case any such Contributor or Adventurer, as aforesaid, who shall have advanced and paid down to such Cashier or Cashiers a Proportion of his, her, or their Consideration-money, his, her, or their Executors, Administrators, Successors, or Assigns, do not advance and pay unto such Cashier or Cashiers the remaining Part of his, her, or their Consideration-money so to be paid, in full, for such Tickets as aforesaid, on or before the Times for paying thereof as aforesaid; that then, and in every such Case, every such Contributor or Adventurer shall forfeit and lose to his Majesty, for the Use of the Publick, the Proportion of his, her, or their Purchase-money, which he, she, or they shall have so paid down as aforesaid; and in every such Case no Ticket or Tickets shall be delivered out by the said Cashier or Cashiers, to such Contributor or Contributors making such Default; but the Ticket and Tickets which should have been delivered to such Contributor and Contributors, had they paid the full Money for the same, shall be returned and delivered to the said Managers and Directors by the said Cashier or Cashiers, together with the other Tickets (if any) in the outermost Column of the Book and Books first herein-mentioned and directed to be prepared, which Numbers of the fortunate Tickets, and the Sums, to be printed. Disputes relating thereto, to be adjusted by the Managers. Penalty of Forging Tickets or Certificates. Felony. Managers to be sworn. The Oath. Cashier, on receiving the Residue of the Sums subscribed, to give Receipts for the same; the Bearers intitled to 1 Lottery Ticket for every 10 £. subscribed. Contributors not making good their Payments within the Times Limited, to forfeit their Deposits.