lotteries, the following proposal would very easily perfect our
work.



A CHARITY-LOTTERY.



That a lottery be set up by the authority of the Lord Mayor and
Court of Aldermen, for a hundred thousand tickets, at twenty
shillings each, to be drawn by the known way and method of drawing
lotteries, as the million-lottery was drawn, in which no allowance
to be made to anybody, but the fortunate to receive the full sum of
one hundred thousand pounds put in, without discount, and yet this
double advantage to follow:

1. That an immediate sum of one hundred thousand pounds shall be
raised and paid into the Exchequer for the public use.

2. A sum of above twenty thousand pounds be gained, to be put into
the hands of known trustees, to be laid out in a charity for the
maintenance of the poor.

That as soon as the money shall be come in, it shall be paid into
the Exchequer, either on some good fund, if any suitable, or on the
credit of the Exchequer; and that when the lottery is drawn, the
fortunate to receive tallies or bills from the Exchequer for their
money, payable at four years.