House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693

XLI. The manner of drawing the Tickets.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That on the Eighth day of October One thousand six hundred ninety foure the said Managers and Directors shall cause the said several boxes with all the ticketts therein to bee brought into the Guild Hall in the City of London by Eight of the clock in the forenoon of the same day and placed on a table there for the purpose and shall then and there severally attend this service and cause the two boxes containing the said ticketts to bee taken out of the other two boxes in which they shall have been lockt upp and the Ticketts or Lotts in the respective innermost boxes being in the presence of the said Managers and Directors or such of them as shall bee then present and of such adventurers as will bee there for the satisfaction of themselves well shaked and mingled in each box distinctly some one indifferent and fitt person to bee appointed and directed by the Managers aforesaid or the major part of them or of such of them as shall bee then present shall take out or draw one Tickett from that box where the said numbred Ticketts shall bee as aforesaid putt and one other indifferent and fitt person to bee appointed and directed in like manner shall presently take out a Tickett or Lott from that box where the said Two thousand five hundred fortunate and Ninety seven thousand five hundred blank Ticketts shall bee promiscuously putt as aforesaid and immediately both the Ticketts soe drawne shall bee opened and the numbred Tickett as well as the fortunate or blank Tickett shall bee named aloud and if the Tickett taken or drawne from the box containing the fortunate and blank Lotts shall appeare to bee a Blank then the numbred Tickett soe drawne with the said Blank att the same time drawne shall both bee putt upon one file and if the Tickett soe taken or drawne from the box containing the fortunate and blank Lotts shall appeare to bee one of the fortunate Ticketts then the yearely su[m]m written upon such fortunate Tickett [X1 whatsoever it be shall bee entred by a Clerk which the said Managers or the major part of them as aforesaid shall imploy and oversee for this purpose into a book to bee kept for entring the Numbers comeing upp with the said fortunate Ticketts and the yearely su[m]ms whereunto they shall bee entituled respectively and two of the said Managers shall sett their names as witnesses to every such entry and the said fortunate and numbred Tickett soe drawne together shall bee putt upon another file and soe the said drawing of the Ticketts shall continue by takeing one Tickett att a time out of each box and with opening nameing aloud and filing the same and by entring the fortunate Lotts in such method as is before mentioned until the whole number of Two thousand five hundred fortunate Ticketts and one more for the last as aforesaid shall bee compleatly drawne and if the same cannot bee performed in one days time the said Directors or Managers shall cause the boxes to bee lockt upp and sealed in manner as aforesaid and adjourn till the next day and soe from day to day and then open the same and proceed as above till the said whole number of fortunate Ticketts shall bee compleately drawne as aforesaid and afterwards the said numbred Ticketts soe drawne with the fortunate Ticketts drawne against the same shall bee and remaine in a strong box lockt upp as aforesaid and under the custody of the said Managers until they shall take them out to examine adjust and settle the property thereof.]

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X1 interlined on the Roll.