Section II How Benefit Tickets to be paid.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That for the more orderly Payment of the Lottery Tickets for the said Annuities the Tickets commonly called Benefit Tickets which became due at Lady Day One thousand six hundred ninety eight or within Twenty Days after the same shal be paid in Arithmetical Progression as they are numbred beginning at Number One and ending with the Number Two thousand five hundred and the Tickets for Twenty Shillings apiece commonly called Blank Tickets being due at Michaelmas One thousand six hundred ninety eight or within Twenty Days after the same shal also be paid in Arithmetical Progression as they are numbred beginning with Number One and so proceeding to and ending with the Number Ninety seven thousand five hundred and in the Year next following the Benefit Ticket shal be paid in an Arithmetical Progression descending (to wit) beginning with Number Two thousand five hundred and ending with the Number One and the said Tickets called Blank Tickets from X1the Number Ninety seven thousand five hundred inclusive to Number One Inclusive and so onwards in every subsequent Year during the said Term the said Tickets shal be paid in such alternate Course as aforesaid.