CHAPTER XVI. LOTTERIES AND LOTTERY INSURANCES.

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LOTTERY 1736, for raising 100000l. for building a Bridge at Westminster, consisting of 125000 Tickets at 5l. each.

Prizes 1	of	20000	l.	is
2	„	10000	„	20000
3	„	5000	„	15000
10	„	3000	„	30000
40	„	1000	„	40000
60	„	500	„	30000
100	„	200	„	20000
200	„	100	„	20000
400	„	50	„	20000
1000	„	20	„	20000
28800	„	10	„	288000
30616	Prizes, amounting to		523000
94384	Blanks.
	First Drawn	1000
	Last Drawn	1000
125000		525000

The Prizes to be paid at the Bank in 40 Days after Drawing, without Deduction. N.B. There is little more than Three Blanks to a Prize.

Other lotteries were granted for the same purpose before the bridge was completed. Its structure must have been as rotten as the system on which it was built, as for many years before it was pulled down it was a disgrace to the neighbourhood; and as it was anything but old when it was demolished, it must have gone to decay almost as soon as it was opened. Almost every imaginable article was at this period disposed of by raffle or

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