United States lottery, 1776
Subtitle: The scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each ...
Contributors: United States. Continental Congress.; Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed by William & Thomas Bradford ...
Published: 1776
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: United States Lottery.; Lotteries -- United States.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Shipton & Mooney 43204
Sabin 97970
Dated: Philad. Dec. 6, 1776.
"In Congress, November 27, 1776. Resolved, That it be recommended to the legislatures of the United States respectively, to pass such laws as will most effectually tend to prevent the counterfeiting or forging the tickets of the public lottery. Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary."
LC copy annotated at bottom of sheet: Ticket yet to be sold at the office of Jonathan Williams agent in Boston May 21st 1777; on verso: Scheme of the Continental Lottery.