According to the lottery plans which prevailed from Sir Robert Walpole's ad ministration to that of the Poke of Graf ton, the tickets were issued at 10/. each ; and occasionally the subscript ion was open to the public at large. The highest prize was generally 10,000/, and the lowest 201. There were from four to six blanks to one prize, and the blanks entitled the bearers to five or six pounds stock in 3 or 4 per cent. bank annuities, the value of the blanks and prizes being generally funded. The office-keepers divided the tickets in to shares and chances ; the former en titling the holders to the proportion they had purchased of blanks and prizes ; the chances to prizes only ; that is, they had no return if the ticket was drawn a blank. The tickets, according to the advantage or disadvantage of the scheme, in respect to the number of blanks to a prize, and the number of high prizes, generally sold at from 111. to 12/. before the drawing. When the ticket sold for 114 and the blank was entitled to 6/. in the 3 per cent. annuities, as the blank might be sold for 51. 88. ready money, when the 3 per cents. were at 90, the adventurer only gambled at the risk of SL 12s. ; and at the highest calculation, when tickets were worth 131. he never staked more than 71. 12s. for a ticket before the drawing.
In 1759, the scheme of the lottery in cluded two prizes of 20,000/. each, which had not been the case in any lottery since the reign of Queen Anne. The scheme for the year 1767 contained one prize of 20,000/. and this was for many years after the usual amount of the highest prize. A bout this time a material alteration was Made in the plan of the lotteries ; the at lowance to blanks was discontinued, sic whole sum being divided into prizes the number of which was of course ably increased, particularly as the ProPor of small prizes was much eater than it has since been, of the fbllowing years was less flea two blanks to a prize. All the lotteries during the time Lord North was Chancellor of the Exchequer were formed on this principle, with some variations in the which favoured the holders of tickets and the lottery-o$ict keepers, and greatly ex panded the spirit of gaming: such as pay; lug the prizes in money instead of stock, and making the first drawn ticket for se-. veral successive days a capital prize of 1000/. or more, which enhanced the price of tickets, and encouraged persons Who had blanks drawn to buy in again. Some judicious regulations were, however, a dopted, fur the security of persons pur chasing shares of tickets, by confining the shares into which tickets may be divided into halves, quarters, eighths, and six teenths, and obliging all lottery-office keepers to deposit the tickets they divkle into shares in the bank, and to have the said shares examined and stamped. The of insuring tickets and shares was likewise restrained, by enacting that " No person shall sell the chance or chances of any ticket, or any share, for any time less than the whole time of drawing from the day of sale ; nor shall receive any sum of money whatsoever, 111 consideration for the repayment of any sum, in case any ticket shall prove fortu nate, or in any case of any chance or event relating to the drawing, either as to time, or its being fortunate ; nor shall publish proposals for the same; under the penalty of 500/. one half to be paid to the person suing for the same, and the other moiety to his Majesty." Daring Mr. Pitt's administration, the lotteries were contracted for entirely dis tinct from the loans of the respective years ; and as it became. necessary to en deavour to augment eery source of re-. venue as much as posAble, various altera tions were made lottety schemes, chiefly with the of raising the price of tickets, and .8f keeping up the price during the tine of drawing. The number and amount of the highest prizes were in ome of the schemes containing four pries of 20,0001. and others two of 30,00.; while, for the purpose of dispos a greater number of tickets in the of the year, the lottery was divided into two or three smaller ones, drawn at different times. The amount princi pal prizes was afterwards still further aug mented; the lottery drawn in October, 1807, containing a prize of 40,0001. and that
drawn in June 1803, six prizes of 20,000/.
Notwithstanding the temptations which these schemes held out to the inconsider ate, the contractors found, tither from the greater frequency of lotteries, or the increased number of tickets, that it be came impossible to get the tickets off their hands, without resorting to a variety of expedients for attracting the public at tention, which were carried so far as to become a public nuisance and disgrace. In 1808, a Conimittee of the House of Commons was appointed, to inquire how fat the evils attending lotteries have been remedied by the laws paSsed respecting the same ; who in their report were of vi.snovxclind ease it stoll Ave thou& ex.pegrestit to continue *ate lutterjeg•the masher therotorto each year shot/Ms In finite:de) 'Luc) lotttAts, of not wort • tichos earl; that the days -allowed for draw*, instead of ten, showld ins brought tmek for each lottery, the eratither lazed in lea ; that tLie masailger ctl tickets to be stirtaan 45ty 4100%44 1).t Id( to tiAt diet.' eton of the coconaissioners egf stamp dews, and kept secret tali the ohne of the 4,-,awit% each day, tare be taken, a.atiselottety proceeds, not to leave 1.99 isnwalt pondrawn on the latter clays out that one a "wriety or &VW& of OW four first days tiwrour that every got eri-otece teeper sitou:ol, bra zsidaiicar to los (AM little:e, tlitt out a futsited imager of tieenws for inga.gentas grwitation of lauurs daring which lottery-Olkes way he fur tragnaction 0,11 0* cicioct So the troor.litog (111 eight in the auxviel by 22 Georg* Ill c. 47, sad renewed in the ti.m. atlas of I W2, sad thelbret AYllowiny, ,caws, kr; I. mitte4 titobt, or 1W/i nod ottpt .ts iterate to be reenaeted, VALKe4 eAcepboa therein wade to Statimay *ter.' 1.4.141*.t9ft sari natiaances, 5 Ceorge • for the pubne strove of the tem* are freqrsell by tieular selatiates, notatag4 Milkers sod persons stppoisitto fly statiste 42 George ff ("fliat 1AM to pay idly pot,,,j, licence in London, llsib/W, or within twenty miters of and OA tadz frr every licence PO eVtlj ,miser o sa s grad Iseease‘l persons than depoilt thirty tickets with the Sin aver. Genet•s/ of the ifornp Duties, or rteroce to Sys visi• By foo_111Ade 22 (ha. ill, c, 4 7, office bet-In-hi must tare sith a licence, and onkel, are to be open only from eirtt in the mornitv, to *VA in ottoiirif,, except 04 Saturday eterAit% prat:.--61mg the oirlowitI, The tale or 6,iivIxer$ ;aid ,snares or to Ikea, by poso•t;cons py9priestors thetyssof, are prolsh Mosel under penally of poodt, sod, by 42 Ge.o, 1 f c, /It all Karnes or called Little GaCt, Pit glet12•e4 porblie; nulaancea, acadsU nsmotis trepinK fang of to or issue for tory rante or lotte,- try, not snthortassil by 1vw,wirall forfeit five boodre.4 pwinos,, and be tieesirA rogueti 9114 T7re proprkitif or* wiwk.
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