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 3+ C. 12. Anno tertio Georgii III. A. D. 1762. drawing of any Ticket or Tickets, either as to the Time of fuch Ticket or Tickets being drawn, Penalty, or whether fuch Ticket or Tickets be drawn Fortunate or Unfortunate; and all and every Perfon and Perfons who (hall offend in any of the aforefaid Matters, (hall forfeit and pay treble the Sum and Sums of Money which fhall have been received by fuch Perfon. and Perfons contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of this A£t; to be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint or Information in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Weftminjler; in which no Effoin, Protection, Privilege or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance (hall be allowed; one Moiety whereof to be for the Ufe of his Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, and the other Moiety to be paid to the Perfon or Per- fons who fhall fiie for the fame; and every fuch Sale, Wager or Contract, and every Agreement Perfons felling Shares in relating; thereto, {hall be and is hereby declared null and void. Tickets of which they LIX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons fhall are not poffdfed, keep any Office or Offices, or fhall print or publifh any Scheme or Propofal, for receiving any Sum. or Sums of Money in Confideration of any Intereft to be granted for the fame, in any Ticket or Tickets in each or either of the faid Lotteries, whereof fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall not then be actually pofleffed; or in Confideration of any Sum or Sums of Money to be repaid in cafe any Ticket, or Number of Tickets, in each or either of the faid Lotteries, which fhall not be in the forfeit 500 1. actual PofTeffion of fuch Perfon or Perfons, fhall prove Fortunate or Unfortunate; all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons fhall forfeit and pay the Sum of five hundred Pounds; to be recovered by Ac- tion of Debt, Bill, "Plaint or Information in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Weftminjlcr; in which no Effoin, Protection or Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed; one Moiety whereof to be for the Ufe of his Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, and the other Moiety to be paid to the Perfon or Perfons who fhall fue for the fame; and alfo fhall fufFer three Months __ " ... Imprifonment without Bail or Mainprize. Sa'againTthU lAft, LX - And be k further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Offence againft this Act, or any of the A&s for ' or any of the Acts of Parliament made in this Kingdom, for preventing private and unlawful Lot- preventing unlawful Lot- teries, fhall be committed in Ireland, the Offender fhall incur the like Penalty and Punifhment to teries, made punifhable, be inflicted in like Manner as if the Offence was committed in this Kingdom; and that fuch Pe- fueVfor^Dublin" 25 ' ^ na ' ties as by this Aft ' or any of the faicl A ^ s are dir? aed to be recovered in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Wejlmlnjler, fhall in cafe of Offences committed againft this Act, or any of r-> • r l the f a 'd Acts, in Ireland, be recovered in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record in Dublin. Lottery ^°e Ticke's to" LXL And to the End that a11 and every the Pa T ments ' as wdl U P 011 the Fortunate as upon the be exchanged for Certi- Unfortunate Tickets, may be more eafily afcertained, fettled and adjufted for the Perfons who fhall ficates. be and become intitled thereunto; Be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That as foon as conveniently may be, after the Drawing of each Lottery fhall be completed and ended, all and every the faid Tickets to be given out as aforefaid fhall be exchanged for Certificates, to be figned by fuch of the faid Managers as fhall be appointed for that Purpofe. Managers to give Notice LXII. And be it further enacted, That fuch of the faid Managers as any three or more of the "n^Tkk^Vndde 8 . Commiffioners of theTreafury, or the High Treafurer for the Time being, fhall appoint to take livering out the Certifi- > n the faid Tickets, and deliver out the faid Certificates for and in lieu thereof, fhall give timely cates, &c Notice, by Advertifement to be printed and publifhed in Manner as they fhall think fit, of the Days and Times for taking in the faid Tickets, and delivering out the faid Certificates for and in lieu of the fame; and every Perfon's Certificate fhall be numbered in courfe, in refpect of each Lottery, according to their bringing their Tickets to the Managers fo to be appointed for exchanging Books to be kept for en- the fame; to which Purpofe fuch Managers fhall enter, or caufe to be entered into a Book or Books JSfbrinta "ricfato"o to be by them kept for that Pur P° fe for each Lottery, the Name of every Perfon who fhall bring b° exchanged 8 - m& h° anv Ticket or Tickets to be exchanged for fuch Certificate or Certificates, and the Number or Numbers of the faid - Numbers of the Ticket or Tickets which fhall be fo brought by fuch Perfon or Perfons, the Value Tickets, -&c. in Principal Money payable thereupon, and the Day of the Month, and the Year of our Lord when the fame was fo brought; which refpective Book and Books fhall lie open in the Office to be appointed for taking in the faid Tickets to be exchanged for fuch Certificates, for all Perfons con- Certificates to be cerned to perufe; all which Certificates fhall be figned by the Managers fo to be appointed, or the figned, &c. major Part of them, and be directed to the Accomptant General of the Bank of England for the Time being. ^"X^s^ircCredit LXI ^- And be il further enafled by the Authority aforefaid, That the faid Accomptant General for the Principal 'Sums' or " trle Bank of England for the Time being, to whom the faid Certificates are to be directed as contained in the Certi- aforefaid, fhall upon receiving and taking in the faid Certificates, or any of them, give Credit to ficates; the Perfons named therein, in a Book or Books to be by him provided and kept, for the Principal and Affignments may be Sums contained in every fuch Certificate; and the Perfons to whofe Credit fuch Principal Sums Sums °&c! he *k a " be entered in the faid Book or Books, his, her or their Executors, Adminiftrators, Succeffors and Affigns, fhall and may have Power to aflign or transfer the fame, or any Part, Share or Propor- tion thereof, to any other Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate whatfoever, in Books to be prepared and kept by the faid Accomptant General; and the faid Principal Sums fo entered, af- figned or transferred, fhall carry the faid Annuity of four Pounds per Centum per Annum, and fhall be taken and deemed to be Stock transferrable by virtue of this Act, until the Redemption thereof and he is to file and can- in Manner herein after mentioned; and the faid Accountant General of the Bank of England for eel the Certificates, and the Time being is hereby authorifed and directed to cancel and. file the Certificates as they fhall giveNotes in hcu thereof. from time to tmle be received and taken in by him, and to give the Perfons bringing in the fame a Note under his Hand, teftifying the Principal Money for which they fhall have Credit in the faid BooJt