Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696

XXX. The said Managers to prepare another Book of Tickets, as herein mentioned.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Managers and Directors or the major part of them which shall be present att any Meeting as aforesaid shall also prepare or cause to be prepared one other Book in which every Leafe shall be divided or distinguished into Two Columes and upon the Innermost of those Columes there shall be printed Five thousand Ticketts and upon the Outermost of the said Two Columes there shall be printed Five thousand Ticketts all which shall be of equal Length and Breadth as neare as may be And that Three thousand five hundred part of the said Five thousand Ticketts to be contained in the Outermost Colume of the said Book last mentioned shall be called The Fortunate Ticketts to which extraordinary Benefitts shall belong and shall be written upon as well in Figures as in Words att Length in manner following (that is to say) upon One of them One thousand Pounds upon Two of them severally Five hundred Pounds upon every One of Three of them severally Foure hundred Pounds upon every One of Foure of them severally Three hundred Pounds upon every one of Six of them severally Two hundred Pounds upon every one of Fifty and one of them severally One hundred Pounds upon every one of One hundred and three of them severally Fifty Pounds upon every one of One hundred and thirty of them severally Tirty Pounds upon every One of Foure hundred of them severally Twenty Pounds upon every one of Two thousand eight hundred of them severally Ten Pounds which Su[m]ms so to be written upon the said Fortunate Ticketts together with One hundred and fifty Pounds to be allowed to the Owner of the First drawne Tickett and One hundred Pounds to the Owner of the last drawne Tickett (besides the Benefitt which may happen to belong to the Two Ticketts last mentioned) will amount in the whole to Fifty and six thousand Pounds to be paid as herein after expressed.