Chap. 0015 an act for raising a further sum of money, by a lottery or lotteries, for compleating the pavement of the highway, in roxbury (from boston line to the foot of the meeting-house hill), leading towards dedham.
Whereas the great and general court, at their sessions in April, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-nine, impowered Messieurs Joseph Williams, Samuel Heath, Ebenezer Newell, Jeremiah Richards and Joseph Mayo to raise, by a lottery or lotteries, the sum of one thousand six hundred and sixt}'-six pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence, to be applied towards paving and repairing the highwa}* aforesaid ; and whereas said sum has been accord ingl}' raised, and the same expended for the purposes for which it was raised, so far as it would extend, but it being insufficient to compleat and finish said pavement, repair and widening said highway : for raising a sum sufficient for finishing said highwa}', and paying the charges of said lotteries,-
Be it enacted by the Governor, Council and House of Representatives,
[Sect. 1.] That the said Joseph Williams, Samuel Heath, Ebenezer Newell, Jeremiah Richards and Joseph Ma}'o, or airy three of them, be and the}' hereby are allowed and impowered to set up and carry on one or more lottery or lotteries, amounting in the whole to such a sum as, by deducting ten per cent out of the same, or out of each prize- or benefit-ticket, may raise the sum of seven hundred and
Preamble. 1758-59, chap. 39.
Messieurs. Joseph Williams, Samuel Heath, Ebenezer Newell, Jeremiah Richards, and Joseph Mayo, select- > men of Rox-
fifty pounds, and no more, to be applied towards finishing and com-pleating the pavement of said highway, repairing and widening the same, and the necessaiy charges of managing and prosecuting the lotteries aforesaid.
[Sect. 2.] And the said Joseph Williams, Samuel Heath, Ebenezer Newell, Jeremiah Richards and Joseph Mayo, or any three of them, are hereb}* impowered to make all necessaiy rules and orders for the regular proceeding therein ; and they shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the trust aforesaid, and shall be answerable to the purchasers and drawers of the tickets for any deficiency or misconduct; and the money thus raised shall be applied to the uses and purposes aforesaid.   [Passed August 15 ; published August 16.