circulating and exchanging for ready money the refidue of the fame bills for the future, it is enacted, That one hundred fixty eight thousand fix hundred fixty five tickets therein mentioned shall be rolled up and put into a box to be marked with the letter (A) and fecured as in the fame act is prefcribed; and that books fhall be prepared, in which every leaf fhall be divided or diftinguished into two columns; and that upon the innermost of those two columns there fhall be printed one hundred fixty eight thousand fix hundred fixty five tickets, and that upon the outermost of thofe two columns there fhall be printed one hundred fixty eight thousand fix hundred fixty five tickets; and that twenty eight thousand one hundred and nine, part of thofe contained in the outermoft columns of the books last mentioned, shall be and be called the fortunate tickets, to which the prizes or benefits fhall belong, as is therein mentioned; and the faid fortunate tickets shall be written upon, as well in figures as in words at length, in manner following, that is to fay, upon one of them, twenty thousand pounds principal money; upon two of them feverally, ten thousand 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 thousand pounds principal money; upon every one of seventy 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 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 twenty five thousand three hundred and ninety of them severally, ten pounds principal money: which principal fums, together with five hundred pounds principal money to be allowed to the owner of the first-drawn ticket, and five thousand pounds principal money to the owner of the laft-drawn ticket, (befides the benefits which may happen to belong to the two tickets laft mentioned) do amount in the whole to five hundred thousand pounds; and that all the tickets contained in the outermoft columns of the last-mentioned books, shall 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 preferibed; and that on or before the twenty fourth day of September one thousand seven hundred and nineteen the faid feveral boxes, with the tickets therein, fhall be brought into the Guild-hall of the city of London; and that the tickets therein shall be drawn, and the fortunate tickets afcertained, adjusted and fettled in the manner and within fuch time as are therein mentioned, as by the fame act, relation being thereunto had, may more fully appear. Now in regard the tickets prescribed by this prefent act do confift of the fame numbers, and are to be attended with the fame chances with those appointed to be prepared by the act last before recited: it is hereby further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the chance of every ticket for Every chance which any money fhall be contributed on this prefent act (whe- of this lottery ther the fame shall happen to be a prize or a blank) fhall be de- mined by the termined by the drawing of the tickets upon the said other act; drawing of so that in every cafe where any numbred ticket upon the draw- the other loting by the said other act shall be entitled to a prize in principal tery. 5 Geo. I. c. money, to be deter 3. All furplus money difpoleable by parliament. money, the ticket of the like number to be made forth upon this present act shall be entitled to a prize of the like value in principal money; and in every cafe where any numbred ticket upon the drawing by the faid other act shall not be a prize, the ticket of the like number to be made forth upon this prefent act shall likewife be deemed to be an unfortunate ticket, to which no prize fhall belong. The method of drawing to ascertain 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. Fortunate tickets to be printed. Forging or counterfeiting tickets felony. Managers to enter fortunate tickets in a book, and tranfmit it into the Exchequer. Intereft to be paid quarterly. First payment at St. John Baptift's day 1719. Managers to be fworn. Their oath. All receipts and iffues at the exchequer to be gratis, &c. Money lent tax-free. Fortunate tickets to be exchanged for ftanding orders. Orders in the fame course of payment to be numbred according to their bringing in. Orders to be paid numerically, &c. and affignable. Several orders in the fame thousand may be turned into one order, not exceeding 500l. in one order. The fund of 30,5591. 14s. per annum appropriated for paying intereft and principal. No undue preference if fubfequent orders be 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 courses are in payment. Receivers may take in money before they receive their books. Contributor advancing one third, and not the remaining two thirds by 15 May 1719. the first third forfeited, &c. Treasury to appoint officers to pay intereft and principal, and to regifter all affignments of orders, &c. All affignments to be regiftred without fee. Extraordinary benefits of 1000l. or upwards, may be divided into several standing orders, &c. Guardians may fubfcribe for infants. The overplus of the duties on coals quarterly, to make good the refidual fum of 22,325l. 18. 9d. The managers and incident charges to be paid out of the duties on coals. EX P. XLII. And it is hereby enacted by the authority aforefaid, That all the furplus, excefs, or overplus monies, which fhall or may quarterly, or at the end of any quarter of a year, during the faid term of thirty two years, arife by the faid duties on coals and culm hereby appropriated, as aforefaid (over and above so much as fhall be fufficient to discharge the monies then due and incurred on the said particular fund of twenty one thoufand pounds per annum, and on the faid particular fund, not exceeding thirty thousand five hundred fifty nine pounds and fourteen fhillings per annum, and over and above the neceffary charges for executing this act, and over and above the monies applicable by this act, to fatisfy the faid refidual sum of twenty two thousand three hundred twenty five pounds one fhilling and nine pence) and that all the furplus, excess, or overplus inonies which fhall or may arife and remain of or for the faid duties on coals and culm hereby appropriated, as aforefaid, after the said sum of three hundred and fixty thousand pounds to be charged on the faid particular fund of twenty one thoufand pounds per annum, and after all the principal and intereft to be charged, as aforefaid, on the faid particular fum of thirty thousand five hundred fifty nine pounds and fourteen shillings per per annum, and after the said residual sum of twenty two thoufand three hundred twenty five pounds one fhilling and nine pence, and the faid neceffary charges of executing this act, fhall be entirely paid off, discharged and fatisfied, (or fufficient money shall be set off for those purposes) fhall be kept apart and reserved for the difpofition of parliament, and shall not be dispofed or applied to any use or purpose whatsoever, but by authority of parliament, and according to fuch future act or acts of parliament as fhall be made and paffed for the difpofition thereof. 5 Geo. XLIII. And whereas notwithstanding the feveral good acts of par- Claufe for the liament heretofore made against private lotteries, feveral perfons more effectual have given publick notice for taking subscriptions for the fale of the fuppreffing private lotchances, or part of the chances to arife on the tickets to be issued by teries. virtue of the faid af, intituled, An act for applying certain over- 1. c. 3. plus monies, and further fums to be raised, as well by way of lottery as by loans, towards paying off and cancelling exchequer bills, and for leffening the prefent great charge in relation to those bills; and for circulating and exchanging for ready money the refidue of the fame bills for the future, not being poffeffed of the tickets on which fuch chances, or parts of chances are propofed ta be fold, thereby erecting another lottery, or entring into an undertaking resembling a lottery, for their private benefit, on the foot of the lottery fo erected by parliament, to the great and manifeft prejudice of the publick credit, and in open contempt of the faid acts of parliament made against private lotteries: for the preventing and remedying fuch pernicious practices, be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That the fame and all fuch kind of undertakings, fhall be and are hereby declared to be within the true intent and meaning of the feveral acts of parliament made against private lotteries; and the several perfon or perfons, buying, felling, fubfcribing, or taking fubfcriptions for the purchase of such chances or lots, or part or parts of such chances or lots, of or on any one or more of the tickets made out, or to be made out, in pursuance of this or any other act or acts of parliament for a publick lottery, or of or on the number or numbers of any fuch ticket or tickets, without having fuch original ticket or tickets in his, her or their own cuftody and right, shall be liable to, and fuffer the feveral pains, penalties and forfeitures inflicted by any former act or acts of parliament, upon fuch as fhall be concerned in private lotteries: and further, That if at any time or times, after the twentieth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighteen, any perfon or perfons fhall presume to fell, or take fubfcriptions for the fale or fales of the lot or chance, lots or chances, or any part or parts of the lot or chance, lots or chances, of or on any one or more ticket or tickets, or of or on the number or numbers of any ticket or tickets made or to be made out in pursuance of this or any other act or acts of parliament for a publick lottery, without having fuch ticket or tickets in his, her or their cuftody or right, fuch person or persons fhall, for every lot or chance, or part of lot or or chance fo fold or fubfcribed for, as aforefaid, forfeit and pay the fum of one hundred pounds, over and above any former penalties inflicted by any former act or acts of parliament made against private lotteries; the one moiety thereof to his Majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, and the other moiety thereof to fuch person or persons as, in his, her or their own right, shall at the commencement of the drawing of fuch lottery or lotteries be poffeffed of the ticket or tickets on which fuch lot or chance, or part of lot or chance, fhall be fold or subscribed for, as aforefaid, to be recovered by action of debt, or on the cafe, bill, fuit or information, in any his Majefty's courts of record at Weftminster, as aforesaid. CAP. X. An act for enlarging the time granted by two acts of parliament, for repairs of the piers of Bridlington alias Burlington, and for making the faid acts more effectual. W WHEREAS by an act paffed in the first year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act to revive and continue an act of the eighth and ninth years of the reign of his late majesty King William, for repair of the piers of Bridlington alias Burlington in the east-riding of the county of York, it was enacted, That the faid act of the eighth and ninth years of the reign of his late majesty King William the Third, and all the duties and Jums of money thereby granted and made payable, and every claufe, matter and thing therein contained, should from and after the twenty fourth day of June one thousand feven hundred and fixteen ftand and be revived, continued and paid, for the term of fourteen years, videlicet, from the faid twenty fourth day of June one thousand feven hundred and fixteen until the twenty fourth day of June one thousand feven hundred and thirty: and whereas for the greater fecurity of fuch ships and vessels as fhall, from time to time, come into the harbour of Bridlington, it is abfolutely neceffary, that both the faid piers fhould be lengthened, and the whole fouth pier be Speedily rebuilt (and most part thereof upon a new foundation) and that new jetties fhould be also built, and other necessary works made for the fecurity thereof: be it enacted, &. The trustees in the recited act, and thofe herein named, may lengthen CAP. CA P. XI. An act against clandeftine running of uncustomed goods, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds relating to the customs. WH After 25 brandy, &c. HEREAS the laws already made for preventing the unlawful importing and clandeftine running and landing of customable and prohibited goods and merchandizes, have by experience been found to be ineffectual to prevent fuch illegal practices, whereby his Majefty is greatly defrauded of and in his duties, and fair traders, who duly pay duties, are very much discouraged and injured in their trades: and whereas for the better carrying on fuch private and clandeftine trade, divers fmall veffels, under the burthen of fifteen tons, are generally employed in the undue importing, running and landing foreign brandy, strong-waters and spirits, contrary to the laws already made and in force: for remedy whereof, be it enacted by the King's most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by authority of the fame, That if any foreign brandy, arrack, rum, March 1719, strong waters or fpirits of any kind whatsoever, fhall from and after the five and twentieth day of March one thousand seven imported in hundred and nineteen be imported or brought into Great Bri- any fhip under tain, or into any port, harbour, haven or creek thereof, in any 15 tuns, fuch fhip, veffel or boat, under the burthen of fifteen tons (except &c. ship forfeited, only for the use of the feamen then belonging to and on board Continued by fuch ship, veffel or boat, not exceeding one gallon for each 2 Geo.2. c.28. fuch feamen) every such ship, veffel or boat, with all her tackle, from May furniture and apparel, or the value thereof, fhall be forfeited, 1729, 10 Sept. and fhall and may be feifed by any officer or officers of the By Geo. 1. customs, and shall and may be proceeded against and recovered c. 18. fect. 1. in the manner herein after mentioned; and after the feizure and Ships, &c. of condemnation of fuch fhip, veffel or boat, the principal officers 40 tuns or under, importing of his Majesty's customs in the port or place where the fame brandy, &c. are fhall be at the time of condemnation, are hereby directed to forfeited. cause such ship, vessel or boat, to be entirely broke up, and the materials to be publickly fold to the beft advantage, together with the tackle, furniture and apparel thereunto belonging, the produce whereof to be divided as herein after mentioned. 1734. under II. And whereas rum is now imported in much greater propor- After 29 Sept. tions than formerly: and whereas the importing thereof in small 1719, rum imcafks or vessels is many times done with defign that the fame may ported in cafks more eafily, privately, and clandeftinely be carried off and conveyed lons, forfeited. 20 gaiwithout paying the duties: for remedy whereof, be it enacted by For the contithe authority aforefaid, That if after the twenty ninth day of nuance of this September one thousand seven hundred and nineteen, any rum clause, fee fhall be imported or brought into Great Britain, or into any fect. 8. & port, harbour, haven or creek thereof, in any cafk or veffel, not 2 Geo. 2. c.28. containing twenty gallons at the leaft (excepting only for the fect. 3. ufe of the feamen then belonging to and on board fuch fhip or Unless such veffel) rum were for VOL. XIV. 9 Geo. 1. c. 8. 2 35 |