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handle is hein.ssl/ssma0236 and id is 1 raw text is: In    .t   ear   of   our    L     0    R    D,     1780.
Lottery.                                        [
ACTS and LAWS,
P rafted by the Great and      General Cotirt or Aflrnbly of
the State of MaachtufefttstBay, in New-England:
Begun and held at Bofton, in the County of Sufok
on   Wednefday the Thirty-firft Day ot Maji Anno
DoniMl, x78o.
C     H      A     P.       I.
.An A&     for raifing by Lottety theSurn of 7wo Hundria
7ki/aijnd Dolars., for the Purpofe of repairing the
Roads in the Grite      Woods, fo cailed,in the Counties
of -  amp /hirs and Berk/7ire.
.W    RENZR1. it appears that the Reads ieading through the Gree Paawb ,d;
r v  Wods.1 caled dry fo a  xvu   au f .i/'cpatr, and the inbahitants
una kle to ripair the fame .
Be it tberefore enae,'-.d by the Cou,hl and fIoufe of Repreftntatvu in. Ge-
nera' Court ailembled, and by the' ,uiborily if the faint, I hat a Sum not Wht Sum to
•~~             -,f -di~   by
exceding l'wo Hundred T.houfand Dollars, he railed by a Lottery, with Lutitiy forte.
a I)edui6.n of 'wentlyp.r Cent. upon the Amount of the Tickets. when pai.ing the
f11d, for the u'urpofeot repairing the Roads throughtbe Green Woods fo CR ,, ,fro'
called, from Jofiah Bkewer's to the Crotch of the Ro4 neaii 8lanford
Mtcfing Houte,.iin the South Road, and from Half a Mile Weft 'of -g-
garls .to Lecket Line ; and Irom Becket Weft Line through Walkington
to Pitsfie'd Line, being or the middle Road ) albi Half a Mile Well of
PVIiler's inoatihington toPittisfld Line, on the North Road ; One Hun-
d.ed 'houfwnd Dollai sof the aforefaid Sum of Two -undrec Thoufand
Dollars to Ive firl expanded on the faid South Road , Forty Thoiuland on Nmu, ,f the
tle faid middle Road ; and Sixty Yhouland on the faid North Road : Maaver.
And that Thepdre Sedgwick, Efq; 7ableel Woodbridge, Elq; D,:,ftor Yaoh Sie A ,,gra
Sib ey, Col. 7smes Eaflek, and Captain /Ifa Barnes or any three of the4, o ti fwo, to
IhAl be Managers ot laid Lottery, and who thall be fworn to the faithful the faitbful
Perfo.mai ce of their Truft ; which faid Managers Ihall make and publifl4,if hair TruiI.'
it luch News-Papers as they flall judge proper, a Scheme for laid Lntrery TheSchme of
as ftion aa may be;, and they lhall alfo publifh therewith all neceflaty Rules Atid Lot-'ty to
and Rgulations for the Management thereof: And all Lrizes which 'inay e ptbi.aacd.
be drawn in faidLottery fhall be paid without anyDeduffion,provided they P. V7 to be
are demanded within Six Months after the Drawing of thit Lottery, other- wiJ' to no
wile the Money arii:g fron fuch Prizes to be appropriated to the Pur- D,,tut'.
pofe atorelaid,

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