☞ Tickets are yet to be had of Meſſir's Gould and Company, and of Green & Ruſſell, Printers in Queen Street, Boſton.—As alſo of the Managers at their reſpective Dwellings in Taunton.
Next we will take from the "Boston Post Boy" of November, 1762, the scheme to raise money to rebuild Faneuil Hall, after the fire of 1761. It will be noticed how small an amount was reserved for the purpose for which the Lottery was granted,—only $1,200. It seems as if a very small sum subscribed by every freeholder would have produced more money. If the population of Boston at that time was, say, twenty thousand, or three thousand families, fifty cents for every head of a family would have raised a larger sum than could possibly have been raised by the expensive and questionable process resorted to. At first sight it may seem strange to us that this was not thought of at the time; but when we reflect that even in our enlightened times people are quite as thoughtless about the processes of raising money for charitable or public purposes,—witness the numerous fairs and raffles which are constantly taking place,—we are not so much amazed at these old financial operations, nor do we think we can boast much of our superior morality when we look around and see how some things are managed nowadays.
BOSTON, November 1, 1762.
SCHEME
Of a LOTTERY,
For Raiſing a Sum of Money for Re-building Faneuil Hall; agreeable to an Act of the General Court, wherein Meſſieurs Thomas Cuſhing, Samuel Hewes, John Scollay, Benjamin Auſtin, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Phillips Savage, and Ezekiel Lewis, or any Three of them, are appointed Managers, who are Sworn to the faithful Diſcharge of their Truſt.
Faneuil-Hall Lottery, No. One, Conſiſts of 6000 Tickets, at Two Dollars each, 1486 of which are Benefit Tickets of the following Value, viz.
| Dollars. | ||||||
| 1 | Prize of | 1000 | Dollars, | is | 1000 | |
| 1 | of | 500 | is | 500 | ||
| 2 | of | 200 | are | 400 | ||
| 12 | of | 100 | are | 1200 | ||
| 20 | of | 50 | are | 1000 | ||
| 20 | of | 20 | are | 400 | ||
| 30 | of | 10 | are | 300 | ||
| 200 | of | 6 | are | 1200 | ||
| 1200 | of | 4 | are | 4800 | ||
| —— | —— | |||||
| 1486 | Prizes, | 10800 | Dollars. | |||
| 4514 | Blanks. | |||||
| —— | ||||||
| 6000 | Tickets at 2 Dollars each, is | 12,000 | Dollars. | |||
| To be paid in Prizes, | 10,800 | |||||
| —— | ||||||
| Remains | 1200 | Dollars, | ||||
to be applied to the Purpoſe aforeſaid.
The Neceſſity of a large and convenient Hall in ſuch a Town as this, upon all Public Occaſions, can't be diſputed. The Rebuilding Faneuil-Hall has therefore been generally approved of; and the Encouragement it will meet with from the Public, will, we doubt not, be in ſome Meaſure proportionable to its Importance: We promiſe ourſelves therefore a ſpeedy Sale of the Tickets; and hope we ſhall ſoon be able to draw.