Scheme of a lottery to raise 40,800 dollars, on 272,000 dollars, deducting 15 per cent from prizes
Subtitle: --this lottery consists of 20,000 tickets, divided into three classes, of which there is 8,815 prizes and 11,185 blanks, being one and a quarter blanks to a prize. : The directors of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, having resolved to erect a lottery for raising one hundred thousand dollars, agreeably to an act of the legislature of the state of New-Jersey, have appointed the following persons to superintend and direct the drawing of the same ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26141.
Publisher: Printed by John Woods, Newark, New-Jersey
Published: 1793
Place of publication: [Newark, N.J.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Lotteries -- New Jersey -- Newark.
Notes: "This scheme, proposed in May, was laid aside as of too great magnitude, especially as it was opposed in New York and Pennsylvania, and another scheme of a single class lottery proposed in November, 1793."--Evans.

Evans 26141.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 26141)