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and that be and they nre hereby appointed Commissioners to estab- lish a Territorial Lottery, for the purposes aforesaid, under such scheme as they or a majority of them may deam most advantageous and profit[able] not inconsistent with the provisions this act Sec. 4 And be further enacted that the said Lottery shall consist of any number of classes not to exceed Ten one of which shall be drawn annually, untill they are all drawn, and as large an amount of prizes in the first class shall be paid off in Tickets in the Second class as the Commissioners may deem practicable not to injure the scheme, and the same amt. of Prizes in the Second Class shall be paid off in Tickets in the third Class and so on to the last class when all the p_rizes must be paid off in Cash, The Prizes subject to a deduc- tion of pr centum Sc 5 And be it further enacted that the sd. Commissioners shall keep a Book in which shall be registered the scheme of each class of the Lottery in detail as it was drawn, and at what prices and by whom the Tickets were sold, also all the expences and all other state- ments accounts and proceedings relating to or in any way connected with said Lottery which Book may be examined at any time by the Governor and Auditor, and it also shall be their duty to deposit in the said Bank of all the Money accrueing from the Sales of Tickets as fast as they shall receive the same, there to remain untill drawn out by their joint order for the payment of Prizes and, in days after the drawing of a Class is completed they shall give the Governor a Check on the Bank for the Proceeds accrueing to the Territory from said Class and the Governor shall appropriate so much thereof as may be necessary to pay off the debts due by the Territory to the Bank for advances made as aforesaid, and the com- missioners shall at the same time furnish the Auditor with a just ., true and full statement of the scheme and drawing of said Class which shall be laid before the Legislature by said Auditor at the time he makes his annual Report of the fiscal concerns of the Territory, Sc. 6 And be it further enacted that the proceeds accrueing to the Territory from said Lottery over and above the sums necessary to discharge the demands at Bank as aforesaid shall be appropriated by the Legislature to Public Roads-Bridges or such other usefull purposes as they may deem most advantageous- Sec 7 And be it further enacted that the said commissioners shall previous to acting under this Law take an oath before any Officer authorized to administer it faithfully and justly to perform all the duties assigned them, by this act to the best of their abilities, and also give Bond with security for the sum of Dollars payable to the Governor of this Territory and his successors in Office condi-
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