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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693/section-XXXIX",
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  "legislation": "aep/WillandMar/5/7",
  "legislation_title": "House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/house-of-commons-disqualification-act-1693",
  "path": "section/XXXIX",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XXXIX",
  "heading": "Books with Two Columns.",
  "text": "2,500 Tickets to be called the Fortunate Tickets.; The several Benefits accruing therefrom.\nAnd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Managers and Directors or the major part of them which shall bee present att any meeting as aforesaid shall alsoe prepare or cause to bee prepared other Books in which every Leafe shall bee divided or distinguished into two Columns and upon the innermost of those. Columns there shall bee printed One hundred thousand Ticketts and upon the outermost of the said two Columns there shall bee printed one hundred thousand Ticketts all which shall bee of equal length and breadth as neare as may bee which two Columns in the said Books shall bee joyned with some flourish or devise thorow which the outermost Ticketts may bee cut off indentwise and that two thousand five hundred Ticketts part of those to bee contained in the outermost Columns of the Books last menc[i]oed shall bee and bee called the Fortunate Ticketts to which extraordinary benefitts shall belong as is herein after mentioned and in case the said whole su[m]m of ten hundred thousand pounds shall bee advanced and contributed by Contributors or Adventurers as aforesaid then the said Managers and Directors or the major part of them or such of them as shall bee present att a meeting as aforesaid shall cause the said fortunate Ticketts to bee written upon as well in figures as in words at length in manner following that is to say. Upon One of them one thousand pounds yearely. Upon every one of Nine of them severally five hundred pounds yearely. And upon every one of Twenty of them severally one hundred pounds yearely. And upon every one of Eighty of them severally fifty pounds yearely And upon every one of Ninety of them severally five and twenty pounds yearely. And upon every one of Three hundred of them severally twenty pounds yearely. And upon every one of Two thousand of them severally ten pounds yearely. Which yearely su[m]ms soe to bee written upon the said Fortunate Ticketts together with one hundred and fifty pounds yearely to bee allowed to the Owner of the first drawne Tickett and one hundred pounds yearely to the Owner of the last drawne Tickett.(besides the benefitts which may happen to belong to the two Ticketts last mentioned) will amount in the whole to fourty thousand pounds per Annum part of the said yearely fund.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5/7/section/XXXIX",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:24:08.433600+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}