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Scheme of a lottery to raise 40,800 dollars, on 272,000 dollars, deducting 15 per cent from prizes
--this lottery consists of 20,000 tickets, divided into three classes, of which there is 8,815 prizes and 11,185 blanks, being one and a quarter blanks to a prize. : The directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect a lottery for raising one hundred thousand dollars, agreeably to an act of the legislature of the state of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same
Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 44 x 26 cm.
"This scheme, proposed in May, was laid aside as of too great magnitude, especially as it was opposed in New York and Pennsylvania, and another scheme of a single class lottery proposed in November, 1793."--Evans.
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