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1782 165 (1782)

handle is hein.ssl/ssma0256 and id is 1 raw text is: In tl rear of witr .t, 0 D, I73. __ 16s ACTS and L A W S Pafired by the Great and General Court or Affcmbly of the CominonVeealth of MdjaCbUflt'. Bbgun -rd helcf at Boflon, in the County of -SUfolk, on Wednefday th.-Twentyninth Day of May, A. D. 1782 ; and fror.:, thence continued by Adjournment to Wednef- day -the'Eightecnth Day of Septenber following, and thei met. C rH A P. i. An A& for grant;ing a Lottery for repairing the Bridge over the River Parker, in the County of Ejffx. 7 HEREX1S the fridggiger, e River'Parker, in the County of Effex, I? and in ibat Part of Ihe County called Newbury Old-Town, ap. ' ars to be of very great public Uiiliy'andStrvicte and tb'et Wilth- out fome fpeedy and effedtual Repairs, the fiid Bridge wili foon be rendered u/lefs : Be it enaT/ed by the-Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives i' Geveral Court [J~oo to bo afferimded, and by ib ulbority of the fawli, That a Sum not exceeding if.- raifed byLot. teen h'xndred Pound:, be raied by a Lottery or Lotteries, for, and to the Pur- tery: for re-- pairing the poe un repairing faid Bridge ; And that Samuel Tufts, ffes Frazier, and Bridgg over Ea;.,ud Sawyer, Miquires, or any two of them, fhal be Managers of the faid the River LOLtCrV or Lotteries, who N.hall be fworn to the faithful Performance of their PaAr:rin the Truii Wli'- h faid Managers hall make and.publif in fuch News-Paprs a Couatyof tc.IaljdepoeraSheeor the faid Lottery or Lotteries, as foon Effcx. z~ may be ; and they fbll alfo publilh thcrawith all necef'ary Rules and Re.6 SamweITts' gtladcons for the Management thereof. And all Prizes which may be drawn Efq; &a. ap. pointed Ma- in the faidLottery or Lotteries, (hall be paid, without any Deduffion,providid nagers. thcy are demandcd within Six Months after the Drawing of the faid Lottery F or Louteries ; otherwife the Money arifing from fuch Prizes Ihall be appropri- To be f'orn2 ated ,o the Purpofe alorefaid. At.d be it jurtbhi nanied, That if any Perfon fball forge, counterfeit, Or Perfons con. aZ , vv Lottery Ticket iffued by Virtue of this Ac&, or flhall pars or utter vided of For. any fuch lorgedcounterfeited, or altered Ticket, knowing the fame to be falfe, gory. irgcc. counterfeited, or altered ; orthat' (hall counfel, advire or affift, in form ,:.g, raliting or counterfeiting the fame ; every Perfon fo offending, and be- ii~y thereof convicted before theSupremeJudicialCourt of this Commonwealth, thall be punified by being fet on the Gallows for the Space of one Hour, with Penalty, a Rope round his Neck, or fhall pay a Fine not exceeding OneHundredPounds to tl:c IJi'c of this Commonwealth, or ffiffer not more than Twelve Months J 11 lmprifonmenti

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