The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-04-06
The Georgia State Lottery and tho
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I'm answer To- many queries adj dress=
ed to us since the advertisement Of
the first drawing OF thei aGeorgia
State Lottery" appeared i'll this pa
per, we have concluded to make the
following statements III regard to
it, in order that the public, at home
and abroad, may be satisfied that
it is legally established institution
of the State, and shonld be entirely
free from any suspicion of fraud,
or OF bogus, being attached to it.
This slottery," then, is authorized
to be drawn by virtue of grant in
the form of an enactment by the Le-
gislature of our State, Ito so far
modify the laws against lotteries as
to enable" certain parties ssto adopt
scheme to raise money for the pur-
pose of building home for and
supporting INDECENT widows and Or
phans, the home to be called the
"Masonic Orphans Home'-a purely
benevolent object, which must COM
mend itself to : every sympathizing
heart with that large class of suffer-
ers in our State BY reason of the
sad calamities and results of war.
In this grant, or act, of our State
Legislature having received Elk
ecutive approval-the following par
ties hnve been constituted the cor
porators, to wit: Colonel William
W. Boyd, of Atlanta; Mrs. William
q. Wilson, widow of Colonel w. T..
Wilson, "Seventh Georgia." AIRS.
Charles D. Pearson; Mrs. General
Pender; Mrs. Charles J. Williams;
Mrs. Sarah Doles; and so many of
them as may accept the said grant,
which oil have done. Of Colonel
Boyd, it is proper to remark, that
he is gentleman high in position
in the Masonic fraternity of this
State, being its Deputy Grand Mas
ter at this point, and is otherwise n
most excellent citizen, deeply imbued
with that spirit of brotherly love
and charity animating all good Ma
sons. TO him, in fact, does this
Georgia State Lottery" owe its
conception, and it is to his personal
efforts before and appeals to the
Georgia State Legislature, that we
must attribute the enactment which
authorizes the drawing of the lottery.
The ladies associated with Colonel
B. are well known in Georgia-they
are the widows of gallant men, all
OF whose lives were sacrificed to a
cause to which they were devoted
in life. Such is the character of
complied with all the provisions of
the corporators, who, having strictly
the Act, have proceeded to advertise
their first drawing of the Georgia
State Lottery"
One of the provisions of the act
or grant, and one which should also
commend the lottery to public con-
fidence, is the penalty fixed to n
violation of the requisition in it,
that "the money received by said
lottery, after defraying oil necessary
expenses, shall be applied to the
benevolent purposes contemplated
in the Act, of which an annual report
on oath shall be made to the Go
vernon, to wit: The grant to be with
drawn, and property and assets of
the corporation to be turned over
to the Georgia State Orphan
Home," to be used for the benefit of
the institution.
So much for the corporation and
the grant under which is established
this Georgia State Lottery
Associated with Colonel Boyd, the
principal manager, is a gentleman
OF large experience in the, manage
ment and conduct Of lotteries. We
allude to Mr.. j, II. Broadbent, of
Baltimore, who advertised as agent
for the lottery. This gentleman
stands high in the estimation Of the
people of Maryland, and as we arc
assured by an eminent citizen of
Georgia who. has had business trans
actions with .hin. for many years,
deservedly SO. BY the Legislature
of his own State, he WAS constituted
the chief manager or Inspector of
the drawings of the lotteries there,
in order to prevent frauds, a trust
of which he acquitted himself to the
entire satisfaction of the people of
that State. In securing the services
of so honorable and so. experienced
an individual, the corporators of the
Georgia State Lottery" have dis
played much wisdom.
National hateligencer.
The notorious Mrs. Lucy Stone.
and one Mr.. Fl. B. Blackwell. who