The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery - Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
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greatly in Debt: The Charges of building the Bridge, and
prosecuting the Lottery, amounting to much more than what was allowed to be raised by the former Act of the General Court--therefore the present Lottery is allowed._ _AND since the said Bridge so well answers the Expectation of the Public, and the Travelling that Way thereby is rendered much more easy and pleasant; the Managers doubt not there will be a great Demand of the Tickets, from a Principle of encouraging and promoting a Work of such general Utility, if there were no other Inducement. But when they consider how much this Scheme is calculated in Favour of the Adventurers, there being many Prizes of great Value, and but two Blanks to a Prize; they doubt not of a very speedy Sale of the Tickets._ _Tickets purchas'd at_ Boston, _if fortunate, will be paid off there. Public Notice will be given of the Time and Place of Drawing; and as soon as finished, the Prizes will be published in the_ Boston Gazette and Country Journal. _Gold as well as Silver will be received for Tickets; and the Prizes paid off accordingly. Prizes not demanded in Twelve Months after Drawing, will be considered as given to the common Stock for building and maintaining the said Bridge, and will be so applied._ _Tickets are to be Sold by the Managers in_ Newbury, _by_ Ebenezer Storer, _Esq., and Son; Mr._ Timothy Newell; William & James Jackson, _and the Printers hereof in_ Boston. |
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