Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-08-03
1908 Prizes
9,927 Blanks
10000 Tickets at 10 dolls. each.
More Prizes than Blanks.

hoio 'lHtS IMAM DlaukS.
The prize of 10000 dolls. floating after the
Zoth, and the 10000 dolls. afterthe 30th DAYS
dlcaawing. All prizes subject to deduction
OF 10 per cent.
Forty drawings Of 500 numbers each.
The trst two thousand blanks will be entis
TIED to IL dollars each, and payable IN cash
as soon as drawn: the next Coco blanks TO S
dollars each, and will be made into thirty
one thousand dollar prizes, and all put INTO
inc wheel ana floating al the same time with
the 10000 dollar prize. Also VIII be put
back INTO the wheel all the numbers which
may have drawn 8 dollar prizes thus, every
hoiaer, instead OF receiving the cash Tor these
small prizes, will be entitled to a Sc ea.p
CHANGE Tor the grand capital of ~. 900 dol.
lars, aud the thirty OF loco dollars. besides
What DINER prizes may remain in the wheel.
NO scheme ever presented To the public pos.
sessed greater advantages than this, partjcu.
larry 10 early adven!urers. who, il is obyi.
Gus, may each have tao chances 7vifh onIg orc
ac%et, II they adventure before certain ne
r!od OF the drawing, when the wheels may he
richest Furthermore, the 10, 900 dollars, g
OF 1000, 20 OF loco, 90 OF boo so of loo. Sc.
wiIl al be FLOATING FROM THE COM.
M!EaNfCEMENT OF THE DRAWING.
ne National Canal Lottery being auti,p.
rized by Congress, tie tickets can be sold in
every part OF the United States. which cir.
cumstance: IT is confidently believed, will
snaoie lac Managers, from the rapid sale Of
t'cke!s' 10 announce an early day for tbs
drawing.
MANAGERS.
Frederick May, Joseph Pearson,
William Brent, Thomas Law,
Daoiel Carroll, Moses Young,
Richard Parrot,
no nave gISen security to the Treasury OF
ne ohited States, for the paymen; Of tie
'r'-ss, II u Toe penal sum OF one hundred hou
:. Prizes payable Go days after the drawing
IS completed.
TO THE PUBLIC
:, HaVlEg been appointed sole agent bv The
Ma1agers. OF the GRAND NATfOk Al.
CANAL LOTTERY, and having opened =
L0t'ery Ofhce, tWodoOrs east OF DAVIS Ho-
'ei, pennsylvania avenue, Wasbinctnn civ
II may be deemed proper for me to &C. tntfh
the claims which this lottery has to he nat.
ionage OF The Citizens of the United States.
Ithout dwelling upon The advances ,sn.
dtred TO adventures by the scheme' vii.
observe, that the object TO Be rronnte9 bv
lhis iotfery, namely, the connection ri ,be
Anacostia and Potomac rivers by CsnaI
cannot tan to be considered as ruI ,n,,ann
py every one WHO Identifies The in,protenInt
OF the Seat OF Government, selecteI Inv ,ba
great WashIngt6n, with the bohor snr oesii.
tuoe OF country enjoying all the bIessnos
OF freedom through his unparalleled eyer
tions ana virtue; who, Wide yet the metro.
Poiis was IN embryo, expatiated much On The
lana, now IN part completed by MONEYS
raised from the drawing OF the two preymns
classes OF tbs Lottery. TO these rops,de.
ra1'ons may be added the fact, that this ca.
n l' IN passing through the city, approacbe,
lhe capitol within few yards, and, At tb,s
day. waters large portion of National Re-.
serve IN this city, enhancing their v,lue and
consequently lessening the burtbens of The
nation; fact fully exempli6ed by The c;r-
that the sales OF public prope,,v
~ inc Glty amount to more than all the orb.
nc buildings have hitherto cost the nation M
Inc Canal is so far completed that tho
neaVy materials tor building the Capitol ,re
now ? w brought in boats, and landed within =
lew yards OF the, Capitol, thereby sav;no
70 the nation many thousand dollars, aoJ
"hen completed the advantages derived from,
i VIII be Incalculable, not only to the c;,;A
senS OF Washington, but to the nation as al
iatit nal property, passes the canal toll fro.
rational object. "a' ''o'y
~ ,BEN!AMIN O. TYLER
AL persons DESTROYS of contracting for sny
lumoer OF tickets will be pleased to forwar9,
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