Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696

XXVIII. Managers and Directors of Lottery appointed.

To meet and cause Books of Tickets to be prepared as herein mentioned.; Books to be delivered to Receivers, who on Receipt of Contribution are to deliver a Ticket to Contributor.; Receiver to answer the Monies, &c. so received into the Exchequer; and to redeliver Books to the said Managers; and also an Account of Monies received for the Tickets.; Managers to cause Tickets herein mentioned not disposed to Contributors to be delivered as Money into the Exchequer, and to be issued accordingly; Owners, &c. of Tickets deemed Contributors.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Persons as His Majesty under the Great or Privy Scale or under His Royal Sign Manual shall nominate shall be Managers and Directors for preparing & delivering of Ticketts & to oversee the drawing of Lotts and to order do and performe such other Matters and Things as are hereafter in and by this Act directed or appointed by such Managers or Directors to be done and performed And that such Managers shall meet together from time to time att some convenient Place for the Execution of the Powers and Trusts in them reposed by this Act And that the said Managers or Directors or so many of them as shall be present att any such Meeting or the major Part of them shall cause Books to be prepared in which every Leafe shall be divided or distinguished into Foure Columns and upon the Innermost of the said Columes there shall be printed One hundred and forty thousand Ticketts numbred One Two Three and so on in Arithmetical Progression where the Co[m]mon Excesse is to be One until they arise to and for the Number of One hundred and forty thousand and upon the Second Colume in every of the said Books there shall be printed One hundred and forty thousand Ticketts of the same Length Breadth & Forme and numbred in like manner and in the Third Columes of the said Books there shall be printed a Third Rank or Series of Ticketts of the same Numbers with those in the two former Columes & that every Tickett in the Third Columes of the said Books shall have written or printed thereupon (besides the Number) Words to this Effect to witt (This Tickett intitules the Bearer to Ten Pounds with One Farthing a Day Interest from the Foure and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven or to a better Chance) and the Ticketts in the Fourth Columes shall be like those in the First and Second Columes Which Books being examined the said Managers shall take off all the Ticketts in the Fourth or extreame Columes and reserve the same for the better Tryal of such Ticketts about which future Disputes may arise And then the said Books shall be delivered to the said Receivers respectively who are hereby directed & required upon his or their receiving of every or any Su[m]m of Ten Pounds from any Contributor or Adventurer in such Money or Plate as aforesaid to cutt out of the said Book or Books a Tickett of the said Third Colume and to signe & deliver the same to the Contributor or Adventurer And the said several Receivers shall answer the Moneys and Plate so by them severally to be received into His Majesties Excheq[uer] for the Uses in this Act expressed and shall on the Tenth Day of July One thousand six hundred ninety seven redeliver to the said Managers att their Offices or Place of Meeting all the said Books and therein all the Ticketts of the First and Second Columes before mentioned and so many of the said Ticketts of the Third [X1 Columes] (if any such be) as the said Receivers shall not have cutt out & delivered to the Contributors for their Money or Plate as aforesaid And shall then and there also deliver to the said Managers and Directors a true and just Account in Writing under their Hands of all Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money and Plate accrued or come to the Hands of such Receiver and Receivers respectively by or for the Ticketts delivered out as aforesaid and how the same or how much thereof shall have been actually paid by every such Receiver into the Receipt of the Excheq[uer] to and for the Uses in this Act directed And that the said Managers & Directors or the major part of them which shall be present att a Meeting as aforesaid shall cause all the Ticketts of the said Third Columes which shall not have been disposed to Contributors as aforesaid to be delivered as so much Money into the Receipt of His Majesties Excheq[uer] for the Use of the Warr and of His Majesties Household and other [X2 the] Uses in thisAct expressed and the same shall and may from thence be issued to and for the said respective Uses as if the same were Cash or Moneys And the Owners or Bearers of such Ticketts X3 in respect of the same be esteemed Contributors or Adventurers as if such Owners or Bearers had originally paid to the said Receivers or any of them Money or Plate att the Rate aforesaid for the same.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Columnes O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 interlined on the Roll.

X3 so issued shall, O. and in King's Printer's Copy.