Lotteries Act 1807
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(47 Geo. 3 Session 2) C A P. IX.
[25th July 1807]
Must Gracious Sovereign,
'WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom ofGreat Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary Supplies to defray Your Majesty's publick Expences, have freely resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty a Sum of Money to be raised by Lotteries, in the Manner herein-after directed; Your faithful Commons do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted;' and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authorityof the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, and they are hereby authorized to sell and dispose of, to any Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, any Number of Tickets, not exceeding in the Whole One hundred thousand, in One or more Lottery or Lotteries, at and for such Price or Sum of Money for each Ticket, as the said Lords Commissioners or any Three or move of them shall think fit; and under and subject to such Stipulations and Regulations, an to the Payment of the Sums contracted to be given for the Tickets in such Lottery or Lotteries, and as to Instalments, and Time of Payment thereof, and any Advance thereon, and any Allowance or Discount for prompt Payment, and as to any Forfeitures or Penalties for Nonpayment of any such Sums of Money or Instalments, and also as to the whole Number of Tickets, and the Number and Value of the Fortunate Tickets in such Lottery or Lotteries respectively, and also as to the Sum or Sums of Money to be allowed to the Owner of any First or Last drawn Ticket on any or either of the Days of Drawing of any or either of such Lotteries, or any other beneficial Chance therewith, and as to the Days, and Times, and Place for the Drawing of such Lottery or Lotteries respectively, as the said Lords Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, shall think proper and expedient; and all such Regulations, Stipulations, Forfeitures, and Penalties, shall be valid and effectual, and be obeyed, acted upon, and enforced, in like Manner, in every respect as if they had been inserted and enacted in the Body of this Act: And that all the Monies to arise by the Sale of such Lottery Tickets shall be paid unto the Cashier or Cashiers of the Governor and Company of the Bank ofEngland, who shall, if required, give Security to the Satisfaction of any Three or more of the said Lords Commissioners, for day answering and paying into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer in Great Britain , all the Monies which he or they shall receive from Time to Time, in respect of any or either of such Lotteries, or of any Tickets therein, and for accounting duly for the same, and for the faithful Performance of the Trust in him or them reposed; and shall, from Time to Time pay all such Monies within Five Days after the Receipt thereof, into the Exchequer, and account for the same there in due Course, deducting only thereout such Sum or Sums, as shall be otherwise paid by him or them, in pursuance of this Act, or of any such Regulations as aforesaid, and which shall be allowed in his or their Accounts.
II Treasury empowered to apply the Money paid into theExchequer by the Cashier.
II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for Three or more of the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to issue and apply from Time to Time all such Sums of Money as shall be so paid into the said Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer, by the said Casher or Cashers as aforesaid, to such Services forGreat Britain as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in this present Session of Parliament.
III Treasury to retain the Money necessary to wards Paymentof the Fortunate Tickets, and One third of the Surplus shall be applied to theServices of Ireland.
III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, out of the Money that shall arise by the Sale of the said Lottery Tickets, to retain such Proportion thereof as may be necessary to be paid to the Holders of the Fortunate Tickets in the said Lotteries, and to pay into the Bank ofEngland , to the Account of Ireland, from Time to Time, any Sums of Money not exceeding One-third Part of the Surplus of the Money that shall arise from such Lotteries, to be applied under the Order of the Commissioners of the Treasury of Ireland or any Three or more of them, to such Services for Ireland as shall then have been voted by the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the present Session of Parliament.
IV A Sum not exceeding 10 l. for every Ticket shall bedivided into Prizes, and paid out of the Supplies granted this Session.
IV. And be it further enacted, That such Sum or Sums of Money, not exceeding in the Whole Ten Pounds for every Ticket to be contained in the said Lottery or Lotteries, as shall be fixed upon for the Purpose, by the said Lords Commissioners of the Treasury inGreat Britain , or any Three or more of them, shall be distributed in Prizes or Benefits, to be drawn in the said Lottery or Lotteries, or allotted to the Owner or Owners of any First or Last drawn Ticket or Tickets, on any particular Day or Days, in such Proportions, and in such Manner, as the said Lords Commissioners, or any Three or move of them shall direct; and the same shall be charged upon and be paid and payable out of all or any of the Aids or Supplies granted in the present Session of Parliament for Great Britain ; and the laid Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury or any Three or more of them, are hereby required and authorized, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands, to cause such Sum or Sums of Money to be issued and paid out of the said Aids or Supplies, to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by them distributed and paid to and amongst the respective Proprietors of the several Fortunate or Benefit Tickets within Two Months after the Conclusion of the Drawing of such Lottery or Lotteries respectively, or as soon as Certificates can be made out for the Sums due in respect of the same, in the Manner herein-after directed.
V Managers and Directors of the Lotteries shall be appointedby the Treasury.
V. And, for establishing a proper Method for drawing the said Lottery or Lotteries, be it further enacted, That such Persons as the said Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury inGreat Britain , or any Three or more of them, shall nominate and appoint, shall be Managers and Directors for preparing and delivering out Tickets, and to oversee the Drawing of Lots, and to order, do, and perform, such other Matters and Things relating to such Lottery or Lotteries as may be necessary in that Behalf; and that such Managers and Directors shall meet together, from Time to Time, at some publick Office or Place, for the Execution of the Powers and Trusts in them reposed; and that the said Managers and Directors, or so many of them as shall be present at any such Meeting, or the major Part of them, shall, for the said Lottery or Lotteries respectively, cause Books to be prepared, in which every Leas shall be divided or distinguished into Three Columns; and, upon the innermost of the said Three Columns, there shall be printed, for each of the said Lotteries, such Number of Tickets as shall have been fixed upon for the same, to be numbered One, Two, Three, and so onwards, in arithmetical Progression, where the common Excess is to be One, until they rise to the Number so fixed upon; and upon the middle Column in every of the said Books shall be printed the like Number of Tickets, of the same Breadth and Form, and numbered in like Manner; and in the extreme Column of the same Books there shall be printed a Third Rank or Series of Tickets of the same Number with those of the other Two Columns; which Tickets shall severally be of an oblong Figure, and in the said Books shall be joined with oblique Lines, Flourishes, or Devices, in such Manner as the said Managers and Directors, or the major Part of them, shall think most sase and convenient; and that every Ticket in the Third or extreme Column of the said Books shall have written or printed thereupon, (besides the Number of such Ticket), Words or Figurers to the following Effect.
'FIRST, [SECOND, THIRD,or FOURTH] LOTTERY, [as the Case may be ] Nofor the Year 1807.
THE BEARER of this Ticket will be entitled to such Benefit as shall belong thereto in the said Lottery, to be drawn in pursuance of the Act passed in the Forty-seventy Year of His Majesty's Reign.'
VI Managers to examine the Books with the Tickets, anddeliver them to the Cashiers of the Bank, taking a Receipt for the same.
VI. And be it further enacted, That the said Managers and Directors, or so many of them as shall be present at any such Meeting, or the major Part of them so present, shall carefully examine all the said Books, with the Tickets therein, and take Care...
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