# House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693, Section XXXVI: Their Majesties may appoint Managers.


Books of Tickets provided with Three Columns.
Ticket.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that such persons as their Majesties by their Commission under the Greate Seale of England shall nominate or appoint shall bee Managers and Directors for prepareing and delivering of Ticketts and to oversee the drawing of Lotts and to order doe and performe such other matters and things as are hereafter in and by this Act directed or appointed by such Managers or Directors to be done and performed And that such Managers or Directors shall meet together from time att some publick Office or Place within London or Westminster for the execution of the powers and trusts in them reposed by this Act and that the said Managers or Directors or soe many of them as shall bee present att any such Meeting or the major part of them shall cause Books to bee prepared in which every Lease shall bee divided or distinguished into three Columns and upon the innermost of the said Columns there shall be printed One hundred thousand Ticketts numbered. 1. 2. 3. and soe onwards in arithmetical progression where the co[m]mon excesse is to bee one until they arise to and for the number One hundred thousand and upon the middle Columne in every of the said Books there shall be printed One hundred thousand Ticketts of the same length breadth and forme and numbred in like manner And in the extreame Columns of the said Books there shall bee printed a third rank or series of Ticketts of the same numbers with those in the two other Columns which Ticketts shall severally bee of an oblong figure And in the said Books shall bee joyned with oblique lines in such manner as is here described, and that every Tickett in the third or extreame Columns of the said Books shall have written or printed thereupon (besides the Number Words to this effect to wit [This Tickett entitles the Bearer to an Annuity of one Pound or (by Chance) to a greater yearely sum for Sixteen Yeares.]

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/5/7/section/XXXVI (the official version)
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